New camera
I just bought a camera and this post is simply marking that fact, with the first (published) photo taken with it.
Dinosaur skeleton automaton (video 00:17)
In the window of the Victorian Model Workshop, Ferrers Centre, Staunton Harold.
Smoking woman
This photograph I took in Tooting from the top deck of a bus in 2015 is getting a lot of views in my Flickr account.
It is of a woman having a cigarette in an alley just off Mitcham Road, by Tooting Broadway. She appears to be pregnant, is what it is, I think.
Repost: “Edwin Hubble Discovers the Universe”
In celebration of the Hubble telescope’s thirtieth birthday, I’m reposting this article from Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), as I love the image on this glass photographic plate.
Buildings in London that are gone now
Change is good, generally. It keeps us from stagnating. The challenge of new ideas and new ways of doing things is good for our brains and drives adaptation and innovation. It underpins our evolutionary development.
In London, despite many years of imposed austerity and economic and social decline for the general population, property developers continue to be busy, avariciously gambling on unsustainable future growth that fails to account for the exigencies of the pivotal era we live in, by which I mean, the Climate Emergency in particular, but also, the social policies that are disenfranchising the working population, the rise of nationalism and so on.
This (photo) reminds me of that (painting)
The photograph on the left is one I took of a decorative old water pump in the garden of Paycocke’s House, in Coggeshall, Essex in the summer. The painting on the right is one I painted in 1986 called The blue conduit…
It was a very good year: rural Hungary in 1985
After graduating from art college in 1985, I went to stay with my grandparents at their smallholding in southwest Hungary for a couple of months, from August to after the grape harvest in late September.
It was a summer of good food and drink, simple labour, reflection, and some loneliness.
Lockheed U-2
I took these photos of this awesome Cold War wraith at an airshow (probably Farnborough) many years ago. I developed and printed the images myself (at art college).
1960s slide of a barrage balloon
This is a photograph I’ve been wanting to see again for years and years. I only vaguely remembered this particular trip, to the point that I doubted that it had happened. I remembered a giant airship, and people jumping from it. I had no idea at the time what it was I was seeing.
The Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets in Guernsey
This is a photo of the Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets in Guernsey, taken in the late 1960s or early 70s. I only vaguely recall going to the island of Guernsey as a small child with my mother and brother. I think my dad stayed at home, so I'm not sure who took this photo, but it did end up in the family photo album.
A photo of Old Beirut
This is a photograph I came across in Meza, a Lebanese Restaurant in Tooting, London. The photographer and the date of the photograph is unknown.
In rural Hungary in winter (video 01:13)
At the beginning of February 2012 I went to a family gathering in Ösi, a small village in Western Hungary
Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway: train arriving at Dungeness (video 1:01)
The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a 15in (381 mm) gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives.
Photographs taken around Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door in 2011
This is an update to a post I originally wrote in 2011 when I took a trip to Dorset to visit the unique landscape of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.