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A cricket fan photoer photos Tower Bridge

My walk back from Bermondsey yesterday soothed me in many ways. During the last few days I had been worrying that wandering about photoing had been losing its charm for me. Something to do with the...

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A bowling machine

This bit of video is all over my Twitter feed just now. Prediction, the best cricket batsmen are about to get a lot better, because the bowling machines they practise on will be getting a lot better....

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Quota gallery – June 3rd 2009

Indeed. I did quite a bit of work on another posting today, about scaffolding and video cameras and suchlike. But it’s not finished yet, and I don’t like to rush what I say about scaffolding. So here...

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Some housekeeping

Yes, following on from yesterday’s cricket dramas, the mundane matter of how photos look, here, on this blog. You will recall that last week, GodDaughter2’s Sister and I were wandering about in London....

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Two more Oxo Tower views

Here are two Oxo Tower views, as photoed by me in July of this year. And here are two more that I photoed from the same place at the same time: On the left, the sort everyone does, and for very good...

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Rotating bridge proposal

Cody Dock is one of my favourite little spots-that-most-people-have-never-heard-of in London, and here is what looks to be a brilliant idea for a bridge there, by someone called Thomas Randall-Page:...

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A bridge in Serbia with an office and a hotel on it

Dezeen reports on this new bridge, to be built in Serbia: Every time a bridge like this gets proposed (or even built), with architecture on it, however bland and boring it is, I rejoice that the day...

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Exploring The City: Monument thoughts

When I say exploring, I mean three kinds of exploring, rather than just the one. The “just the one” is going there, and taking photos. But the second is finding things out from the Internet about the...

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An eccentric form of transport

I’m always on the lookout for eccentric forms of transport, and I especially liked this one, which I spotted on Blackfriars Bridge this afternoon: In the background, Blackfriars railway (station)...

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Photoers in 2003

All the photos below were taken some time during 2003. I don’t know the exact date, because either my then camera couldn’t remember such things, or I didn’t tell it to remember this particular thing....

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Tasting the sunshine out east last August

Yes, last summer I went on several exeditions to such places as the Dome, and beyond. Here is a clutch of photos I photoed in the beyond category. On August 11th, I journeyed to the Dome, then took the...

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Helicopter photos of London

Incoming from 6k: Hi Brian Hi 6k. Hope you’re well. I am, and likewise. Although, I usually know how you are, because you often blog about this subject. My recent favourite in this genre was the one...

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Creatures hitting the news in the USA

I’m not just talking about the hero dog who helped to catch an austere religious scholar, whose austere religious scholarship inspired him also to become a rapist and a torturer. I’m also talking about...

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Lady photoer on tour bus

We are on Westminster Bridge, in October of 2017, and a tour bus comes by. The lady photoer first photos the Wheel, and then turns her attention around, towards Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament: I...

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Lady photoers in 2013

Once again, I am catching up with showing you photos, this time photos photoed on a sunny day in September 2013, all of lady photoers. We are in my most regular photoing-photoers places, outside...

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A new Zaha Hadid Architects railway station in Tallin

The perversely lower-case lettered throughout designboom reports that “zaha hadid architects” have won a competition to build a railway station in “tallin”, which will look like this: At the top of all...

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I’ll believe it when I see it (but I just might see it quite soon)

It’s a bridge. It’s a swimming pool. A Because Now We Can! swimming pool: And according to this, they’re actually going to build it, in London, a walk away from me.

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A decade of photos – one from each year

I originally got together these photos, one for each year of the decade now ending, with Samizdata in mind. But then I did a posting looking back at Christmas Day for there, with lots of photos, and...

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Those thirty-five photoer photos from October 20th 2007 that I promised you

Yes, as earlier promised: There’s a lot I could say, by way of a photo-essay, about these photoer photos. But, do you know what the best thing about them is, in my opinion? How good they are. Oh,...

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Big Ben scaffolding on the HP sauce label

Kevin Brennan MP supplies the proof: Far too good not to copy and paste into here. Yum. And scaffolding.

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