Remarkable Frozen Lake in Kent , the following day
I revisited the lake featured yesterday a day later, after a long period of gentle but non-stop snow and discovered an altogether more subtle environment. The crisp, contrasty and well defined round...
View ArticleJan Greshoff – Images of rural South Africa, Cape Province in 1960′s & 70′s
Following on from my last post of Jan’s pictures a couple of weeks ago (http://wp.me/p32AWy-3V), here are some of his rural views. He was interested in structure and it is rare to find figures or life...
View ArticleHop Garden Pole Fence – for fun
I’ve done a lot of driving over the past couple of days, shooting in Southampton yesterday and all over Hertfordshire today. On my way back today I drove past a wonderful long fence made of poles...
View ArticleFrom barns and hop garden poles to the hi tech world of the City of London –...
Yesterday, I had occasion to visit the bar at the top of the Gherkin building in the City of London. We arrived after dark and it was raining but the space up there and the view were both stunning, as...
View ArticleHOP GARDEN for fun – Take 2
Still working on the Cathedral Stained Glass project but on my way home a few days ago I came across another Hop Garden and did this take on an earlier theme:
View ArticleWhat do you do if you are stuck in a traffic jam for a couple of hours?
You photograph the cars speeding by on the opposite carriageway – what else! These were taken on the M26 a couple of weeks ago whilst on my way to a shoot near Heathrow. It was a chilled trip as I...
View ArticleSouth Coast Calm
I’ve got a day in today, costings, emails, accounts, waiting for FedEx, packing up DVD’s and sorting stuff out in general. I am also looking at the possibility of another small exhibition. Interest...
View Article120m of the A4 Great West Road, Brentford, West London
With two shoots, I had a busy day yesterday but found myself with a two hour gap, sitting in my car, without a trendy coffee shop in sight, in the rain, in one of London’s less pictorially celebrated...
View ArticlePeriphery
A few years back I undertook a film based project looking at the edges of communities and in particular the structures to be found there. I worked mostly on 6×12 and it was to be my last project...
View ArticleRed Telephone Box resurrection in Kent and “La Cabina”
Easter is a good time to think of resurrection. I have passed the yard of #UniquelyBritish countless times since moving to Kent 10 years ago but I visited the place for the first time last week. Their...
View ArticleSt Thomas a Becket Church, Fairfield, Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh has got to be one of my favourite places in Kent. The silent and bleak desolation is contrasted only by the endless groups of sheep nibbling at the grass and the plaintive bleats from the...
View ArticleAshford M20 cycle & Footbridge – Nicoll Russell Architects with Jacobs
I took some time out after a shopping trip to Sainsbury’s in Ashford recently and strolled over the (now not-so) new foot bridge that joins the Eureka and Warren Business parks together. Great for...
View ArticleHadlow Tower, Kent – Britain’s tallest folly now folly restored
Here is something I thought I had posted a couple of weeks ago but realised just now that it slipped through without a look in! I visited the marvellous and recently refurbished Hadlow Tower a few days...
View ArticleAll Saints Church, Icklingham, Suffolk
Granted, All Saints was built as a church but given that this building hasn’t been in use for over 100 years to call it a “Church” is perhaps something of a misnomer. I swung by Icklingham on my way...
View ArticlePostmans Park, City of London – A kind of heart-rending 19C twitter feed in...
On my way through the city last week, I had an hour or so “spare” after shooting a bunch of bankers so decided to revisit Postmans Park, just around the corner from St Pauls. I was commissioned to...
View ArticleCanterbury at Night and Brassai’s “Paris de Nuit”
One of the most precious photography books in my collection is Brassai’s “Paris de Nuit”. This was given to me by my father about 20 years ago and is a well loved copy which detracts from it’s...
View ArticleSea Wall, water and waves
We had a couple of days on the beach in France (it was my birthday) and as the tide gradually came in I was reminded about just how fantastically dynamic the sea is – constantly moving and changing....
View ArticleView of Excel Conference Centre from over the Thames on the Emirates Cable Car
View from Thames Emirates Cable car crossing On a recent trip to Excel, the huge exhibition centre to the East of London, I decided to travel via the (Emirates) Cable Car which runs from Greenwich...
View ArticleA nice way to end the working year
Here is one windscreen’s worth of frost, before I destroyed it! Nature is always amazing. Happy Christmas Frost Windscreen
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