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...
View ArticleA 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....
View ArticleQuota 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...
View ArticleSome 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....
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleRotating 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:...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleExploring 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...
View ArticleAn 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)...
View ArticlePhotoers 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....
View ArticleTasting 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...
View ArticleHelicopter 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...
View ArticleCreatures 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...
View ArticleLady 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...
View ArticleLady 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleI’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.
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThose 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,...
View ArticleBig 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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