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At the Royal Victoria Docks in March 2012
The basic reason I do personal blogging has always been that I don’t want any constraints placed by some agenda, in my case a political one, on what I consider to be interesting, or beautiful, or...
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A new Fulham stand (and a very good Spurs win)
Even as I write, they are showing a Premier League soccer game on the telly, and more to the point, at the BBC Website. Which means I can go back and watch goals without all the tedium in between, and...
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On how all new building on a large scale tends to start out looking meaningless
Here are some photos I took in and around City Island in 2017, while it was in the process of being constructed: As you can see, there are maps and images as well as photos of the finished objects, to...
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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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Health and safety: Before-and-after photos of the South Bank carousel
South Bank, London, 2012: Closer up: Same thing, 2017: Closer up: I have a vague recollection of this contraption having suffered some kind of accident or mishap which might have explained this...
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The chaos from which buildings arise
It is the sundrenched late afternoon of April 21st 2009, and they’re busy building something: What I’m getting at with the above imagery is: (1) This is a construction site, and these people clearly...
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A quota photo – and why I (and 6k) like quota photos
Rough day today, what with the steroids having stopped. They definitely had a mental as well as physical effect. So quota photo time, this photo has been picked pretty much at random from the archives:...
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Nova 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...
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The 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...
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A couple more quota crowd scenes
I plan on spending my afternoon and evening today concentrating entirely on … something else, so here, it’s quota photo time, just to get it out of the way and out of my head. Which happens to mean a...
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Just 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...
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Why my next camera may still be a camera rather than a mobile phone
In a recent posting here, I speculated that my next “camera” might also be my next mobile. Setting aside the question of whether I live long enough to be making any such decision, I think I probably...
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A London double decker bus being craned into a pub garden in Fleet Street
This has to be one of the greatest ever London crane photos: I encountered it on Twitter: Routemaster bus being craned in to the Old Bank Of England pub on Fleet Street yesterday. To be used as a bar...
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A favourite photo of Battersea Power Station from the archives
Now is not a good time for wandering about in London photoing photos. And anyway, if you do go a-wandering, is putting the photo-results on your blog the smart thing to do? You need a good story to...
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The Airbus A390 “Clickbait”– etc.
Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded,...
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A gallery of Michael Jennings photos
For the last few weeks, a strange glitch has been afflicting this blog, involving spacing. If I stick up just the one photo, stretching all the way across the width of the blog’s column of text, all is...
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Crane and shadow outside Victoria Station
I love a good crane, especially in these almost craneless times. And I also love a good shadow. So, you can imagine how much I appreciated what I saw, outside Victoria Station, this afternoon: Today...
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“587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London …”
This fake photo appears at the top of a piece about new building in London, this being how Nine Elms is about to look: If you regularly travel by helicopter anyway. Also adorning the same piece is this...
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Views from and of the Blue Fin Building
GodDaughter2 has been doing a job in the Blue Fin Building, which is just behind Tate Modern. About three quarters of the way up this building there is a roof area you can walk about in and sit at...
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Facadism ten years ago
On May 20th 2011, in other words a decade and three days ago, I photoed these photos, of a fine example of facadism in the process of being contrived. That is, an old facade is preserved, but an...
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