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Monday, May 28, 2007

A Weekend in the Country

As this wet bank holiday draws to a close, and I have returned to London after a relaxing weekend in the country, it's only apt that I should do a blog entry about it after watching 'Old Joy' which is about a weekend in the country (but is also a cool but very short film).

Anyway, here are some shots from this weekend.

Riseley, 26/05/2007

I've been thinking a lot more about bees recently since reading this, so understandably I got a lot of pleasure from taking the above picture.

Riseley, 26/05/2007

Tracks in wheat field, Riseley, 26/05/2007

On the way to St Neots, 27/05/2007

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Colour Light Abstracts

Camberwell, 24/04/2007

Camberwell. 11/05/2007

Gingerbread Man

Beaconsfield, 29/04/2007

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Return to Wandsworth

Wandsworth Common, 27/04/2007
Compare this with these;
another brief interlude
one last interlude

Sunday, April 22, 2007

New camera

For my birthday, my friends bought me a new digital camera. The following is a selection of favourite images I've taken so far...

Camberwell, 25/03/2007

Denmark Hill, 31/03/2007

On the steps of Tate Britain, 07/04/2007

Admiral Hardy, Greenwich, 21/04/2007

St Paul's Cathedral, 21/04/2007

Recent favourites

Please find a selection of some recent work that I've liked;

Little Venice, 10/02/2007

Waterloo, 11/02/2007

Ceiling, Camberwell, 24/02/2007

Little Venice, 25/02/2007

Brighton, 26/02/2007

Japan: postscript

Just off Coldharbour Lane, South London, 21/01/2007

Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" transported to Camberwell

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 9b

Nagano, 24/10/2006

Untitled, 25/10/2006

Shibuya, 28/10/2006

Nagano, 27/10/2006

This poster was one of the first things I saw in Nagano; apparently the man is a local politician and who was obliged to humiliate himself in public when he lost an election. Maybe it's a cross cultural thing but his pumping fist gesture is rather unsettling...

Nagano, 27/10/2006

This was taken on my last night in Nagano.

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 9a

To conclude my Japanese photo's, two parts of miscellaneous images that I like a lot, but didn't quite fit into any of the previous themes.

Matsumoto, 26/10/2006

I've never seen bigger carp than the ones in the moat at Matsumoto castle...

Nagano, 20/10/2006

One of the things I've missed about Japan since my return is the vending machines everywhere; I recently popped into the Japanese supermarket in Soho and was very pleased to see them selling Pocari Sweat (but sadly not Blendy coffee).

On the way back from Yudanaka, 24/10/2006

Nagano, 20/10/2006

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 8

After a lengthy hiatus, where I take pictures moved home and took way too long to set up his broadband, I return today with the
concluding parts of my Japanese adventure. First up, a brief selection of cats;

Nagano, 20/10/2006

Shibuya, 29/10/2006

Ikusaka, 25/10/2006

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 7

Tonight, my pictures are on the theme of Flora, if anyone can identify any of these plants (apart from the thistles and the daisies!), please let me know, it will be much appreciated...

Myoko-san, 22/10/2006

Ueno Park, 01/11/2006

Monday, February 26, 2007

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 6

Following on from Cityscapes, tonight's work features Street Scenes.

Shibu, 24/10/2006

Shinjuku, 28/10/2006

Shinjuku. 28/10/2006

Roppongi, 30/10/2006

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Unusual views of outstanding sights, part 5

Also tonight, Cityscapes.

First morning in Tokyo, 28/10/2006

Shibuya, looking south, 28/10/2006

Looking north from Obasute, 26/10/2006

Nagano, 26/10/2006

Tokyo Harbour, from Odaiba, 31/10/2006

In an introduction to a book of photographs by Fay Godwin, John Fowles wrote, "for me there is no substitute with landscape for being there in reality", looking at these photos after a brief hiatus, I couldn't agree more.