“This world needs more eyesores, more carbuncles …”
Or to put it another way: London’s new Tulip skyscraper is great, but why aren’t more people embedding sharks in their roof? Well, I can think of quite a few answers to that question, but I get the...
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Paris photographique
At the old blog, it was quota photos. Now it’s quota galleries, because they’re so easy to do (at least compared to how hard they used to be to do). And just as I didn’t expect you to expend any more...
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Kensington roof clutter
I wasn’t exactly busy, either yesterday or today. But I was preoccupied, with other matters. So, here is some quota roof clutter, which I photoed in Kensington last night: Tate Modern eat your heart out.
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LA roof clutter
You can see how, out of all of this photo-collection of LA trees at Mick Hartley’s, I’d pick out this one: Eat your heart out MOCA.
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A little shipspotting
A little bit of spotting I mean. The ship itself was rather big. Remember this map, showing where I went walking from Maze Hill station to YOU ARE HERE, and then went north to the Dome: The original...
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One Kemble Street from the ME Hotel
As regulars here know, I am very fond of Richard Seifert‘s One Kemble Street (that link will now get you to this posting again but keep scrolling down). I am fond of One Kemble Street because of its...
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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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Urban picturesque
Indeed: Photoed by me in September 2013. I have labelled this photo “NearlyEverything” because for me, it has nearly everything. Scaffolding, roof clutter ancient and modern, a crane, Magic Hour light,...
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Christmas is coming
Lots of rather incomprehensible stuff to be seen through this charity shop window in Warwick Way last Friday (i.e. September 27th), and more to be seen reflected in it. But the central message, stuck...
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Low level roof clutter on the House of Fraser
Presumably, many readers of this blog regard my fascination with roof clutter as a mere eccentricity, perhaps a consequence of me getting old. But, I believe that there is more to it than that. I mean,...
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Queen Victoria backed by modernity
I love statues. Mostly, you don’t have the exact same one in several different spots, so when you see a familiar one, you know you are here and nowhere else. And while checking out a statue near...
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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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Not roof clutter
… even though it does look a lot like it: No, it’s Plastic bubbles incorporated into high-rise to reduce concrete usage by 35 per cent. Because the world faces a shortage of the right sort of sand.
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The City – 5 years ago
Horrid weekend, having a cold that I’d postponed on Friday because I had a meeting to host. Sleep shot to hell. Tidying up to be done. So, quota photo time, or so I thought. Inevitably, it got out of...
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And not a cloud in the sky
On and from the roof of my block of flats, yesterday: We’re all confined to barracks, and the best weather of the year so far, by far, chose to arrive to celebrate the fact. About five solid days of...
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At the top of the Walkie Talkie
In January 2016, I and a friend visited the top of the Walkie Talkie. And in April 2016, I posted one of the photos I took during that visit, the third of these three Walkie Talkie photos. Somewhat...
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A year ago today …
I was in St Cyprien, in the extreme south of France, staying with my extreme south of France friends (aka GodDaughter2’s family). Roof clutter ancient and modern, wires, orange tiles, fishing...
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Perpignan photos
A year ago yesterday I was in St Cyprien, and a year ago today I was in Perpignan. However, I was in Perpignan again on January 9th of this year, when the weather was much better and hence so were my...
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Battersea silhouettes
I’m still, as yet, going on quite long photo-walks. These are combined with shopping and a lot of exercise, the latter being even greater how what with public transport being off limits. There is...
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Yes, I do like these optical tricks that computer graphics makes it so easy for computer graphicists to play on the world. Says Steve Stewart-Williams of his latest discovery in this genre: If you...
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