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A drone at the Oval – and what drones will replace
I took this photo at the Oval (sorry the Kia Oval), on July 23rd 2012, when I and Michael Jennings were watching England lose by an innings to South Africa: All very regrettable. England lost all...
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Early light
Yesterday I went on the expedition I told myself yesterday I’d go on, which was good. Although, I didn’t do the Dangleway bit at the end, because I was too knackered. Sadly, though, the weather...
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Blue sky – sun – concrete – cranes – crane shadows
Every time I go to St James’s Park tube I go past the cranes that are labouring away to make The Broadway. Yesterday these cranes were looking especially fine in the late afternoon sunshine, casting...
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Walking north to the Dome
So there I was at YOU ARE HERE …: …, and following a bit of shipspotting, I made my way north along the wiggly pink line beside the River. And so now here is another of those click-click-click...
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The Helter Skelter that never was
I don’t often often get close up with the Big Things of the City of London. Mostly I just admire the changing scene they have made for London over the last two decades, but from a distance. But in...
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Palfinger Epsilon
Indeed: That’s a detail in the middle of a device I spotted on a lorry in Victoria Street this afternoon. It’s a grab crane. Here’s the lorry: As you can perhaps see, the job of Palfinger Epsilon is to...
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The new Google building in King’s Cross is taking shape
And the shape is the big green thing that someone has stuck in the middle of this photo …: … which I found here. More about this building-to-be here. On the right, King’s Cross railway station. On the...
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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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Quota sunset (gallery) from a year ago
A year ago exactly. October 1st 2018. While journeying back from out East on the DLR: That’s exactly how they came out of the camera. I don’t know why they vary so much in their degree of luridness,...
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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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My four most favourite London sculptures
All photoed by me, in 2015, apart from the last one, which was photoed by me earlier this year: They are: the statue of Mercury on top of Telephone House (also featured in this photo); the Big Olympic...
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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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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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How London is moving downstream
What do you suppose this is?: Okay, no silly games, this is Disneyland London. They have in mind to construct this during the next few years, out east, on the south bank, on that bit of land that...
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A 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...
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Remember to photo the ordinary things
This is great advice: Wallsend in 1963 by Colin Jones. If you are a young photographer who is just starting out remember to photograph the ordinary things in life, eventually time will make them...
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New word
Cranebow: Found this here. LATER: From where I’m sitting, there is small and unwelcome gap just before where it says, below, “Monday 27 January 2020”. Can any passing WordPress experts explain this,...
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Broadway in black and white
Yesterday afternoon, on my way to St James’s Tube, I once again passed, and photoed, the ever changing scene that is The Broadway (or something similar), as it takes shape. It’s going to be a cluster...
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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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