Pavlova from a distance
If in doubt, here at BMNB, I go with Pavlova: Okay, not bad. But the interesting thing is how far away I was. This next photo, done about a minute later to emphasise this, shows that we are actually...
View ArticleDuck & Waffle views yesterday
Yesterday’s Duck & Waffle socialising was with, get this, GodDaughter1 and GodDaughter2, These two favourite people of mine had, until yesterday, only met very fleetingly during parties or events...
View ArticleCastelnou
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in...
View ArticleA walkabout five years ago
I am awaiting warmer weather, in the hope that I will then feel up to taking a photo-walkabout, somewhere in London town. Meanwhile here are some photos from a walkabout I did, walking (about) from the...
View ArticleReflections in Vauxhall Bridge Road
I love to photo photos like this: Chaos! Modern Art, only for real! I think it’s a coffee place of some kind,, or maybe a hairdo place that also sells coffee. There are a couple of Brian Micklethwaits...
View ArticleBackstage architecture
A big part of my life now is my visits to the Royal Marsden Hospital on the Fulham Road. I’m talking about this building: I show the above photo of the Marsden here. again, because I want now to draw...
View ArticleJust wandering around in London noticing stuff
Ah happy days, of the sort I spend just wandering about in London, photoing whatever I see that seems amusing, in whatever seem like amusing ways: But sadly, these photos were not photoed today or...
View ArticleThe Wires!!! in Seattle
So I was at Dezeen, checking if there’s been any big architecture lately (only in China), and I saw this photo: And I assumed we were in Japan. New modernist white box building, yes. The Wires!!! in...
View ArticleThe photo with the ingredients of the Photo and the actual Photo
The photo with the ingredients of the Photo: The actual Photo: What we have here, photoed five years and a day ago, is one of those window cleaning cranes, and the Moon. In the first photo there, we...
View ArticleNova again – and from a distance
Back in October 2017, I was at the top of Westminster Cathedral. I was also there in even further back, January 2016, when I photoed this photo, of Nova, while it was under construction: I had photoed...
View ArticleQuota gallery of views photoed from the top of Westminster Cathedral Tower
Photoing big collections of photos like this, photoed in October 2017, …: … is one the many things I now miss doing. I can’t tell from this if you can actually do this again. No mention of Covid, which...
View ArticleKeeping up appearances (however odd they were) just off Sloane Square
Here are a couple of photos I photoed earlier in the month, of a rather handsome building just off Sloane Square, just past the tube station as you leave, in the direction of Pimlico, Victoria and such...
View ArticleWhen the view out my kitchen window was interesting
Being so restricted in my movements just now has got me pondering the view from my kitchen window. It doesn’t change from day to day, or now, from year to year. But, oh, there was a time, a time when...
View ArticleA gallery of mostly mundane things – unmundanely lit
As I spend less time accummulating photos and more time contemplating the ones I have, I more and more see that. for me, light is everything. Photography is, I find myself telling myself more and more...
View ArticleHow the old version of New Scotland Yard used to look before they knocked it...
In that posting I did yesterday, it would have made sense to have included also a photo of how the old New Scotland Yard building used to look, given that I showed photos of how the place where it...
View ArticleEast India DLR station
Yes, it’s 2017 again, April, and I’m on my way home after a hard afternoon’s photoing out east. I get to that moment when suddenly, snap, my energy is all gone, and I just want home. So I drag myself...
View ArticleGood vapour trail – evil vapour trail – hybrid vapour trail
This posting began several evenings ago as a quota photo post, with this pretty little scene being the beginning and the end of it: But then I again got thinking about how significant it is that,...
View ArticleUrban picturesque with Shard
Same formula as the previous post. Ooh that’s nice: But puzzle. What is it? We see the Shard there, but where are we? What direction are we looking at the Shard from? Context: We are at the Dome end of...
View ArticleThe Tower Hotel could benefit from Magic Paint
One of London’s more impressive architectural survivals from the Brutalist era is this building: That’s the Tower Hotel, with Tower Bridge in the foreground. I am fond of this edifice, not only because...
View ArticleMore urban picturesque
To add to the collection. Although the second one here is maybe more urban gothic, because in it, a piece of innocent roof clutter looks more like some kind of science fiction monster: Those were taken...
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