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Five years ago today on the South Bank
Yes, another retro-photo-meander, on May 11th 2015 Photo 1: This doesn’t exactly nail down the date, does it? This could be a headline from any day during the last two decades. False, every time. The...
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Quota scaffolding shadows
I’m back from my photo-walk and it was every bit as physically knackering as I feared. But, what with me having done more than one posting here each day for the last few weeks now, here is another...
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The China Works Tower
A while back I was walking along by the River, just upstream from Lambeth Bridge, and photoed this photo (number 5 of these) of the China Works Tower (thank you commenter Alastair for identifying it):...
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It turned out nice in Stoke Newington
The way I see it, I can do an elaborate photo-expedition, which I did today. Or, I can do an elaborate description of some of the things I saw during my photo-expedition. But don’t ask me to do both on...
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Sampson House and Ludgate House
Before everything went arse over tits up in the air into the melting pot and threw a spanner out of the frying pan into the pigeons, they were talking about a new London Thing Cluster, to go here: Here...
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A building can be both an attack on the soul and beautiful
Western Traditionalist says: Brutalism is an attack on the soul. And whoever Western Traditionalist is, he or she illustrates this opinion with the following photo, of a building and a sculpture: This...
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Pavlova dances – backed by a line of cranes
From 2014. Cranes, having spent the day transforming the top end of Victoria Street, relax by going out dancing with Pavlova: The statue is carefully contrived to look beautiful. The cranes are just...
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Crane+aerials+chimneys – whiteface selfie
Here are a couple of photos from the I Just Like It file, or in this case I Just Like Them: In Lower Marsh and on Westminster Bridge. The only thing they have in common is that both photos were photoed...
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Photoing the cricket in 1938 – and photoing it now
Cricket Monthly has a piece up about the tech that accompanies cricket, with some great historic photos of the tech of yesteryear, including this wonderful photo, from the yesteryear 1938: I found it a...
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Urban picturesque 2012
This was not the very first photo I photoed with my new Panasonic Lumix FZ150. These were the first of those. But this was one of the earlier ones: I have many times photoed those spikes on the...
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Look back along Hobart Place at roof clutter – and …
A few days ago, I walked beyond the top end of Victoria, beyond Victoria Station, at the top end of Grosvenor Gardens, and I saw this: But it was getting dark when I first photoed the above scene, so...
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A sunset fifteen years ago
Fifteen years ago today, I did a posting at my old blog, which later got transferred to this blog, which featured the sunset, as seen and photoed by me in Hampstead. Here is one of those photos, which...
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More 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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The 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...
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Urban 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...
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Good 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,...
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East 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...
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How 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...
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A 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...
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When 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...
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