Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Closed Door
I have been at this blog for about eight months now and bar a day here of there missed while I have been travelling I have pretty much managed a picture a day. Rather reluctantly, but definitely, I have decided that I need to draw this to an end for now. It has been very […]
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Colours
Pals is a very attractive Catalan hill town that has preserved most of its architecture at the expense of giving itself over to the tourist trade – a sad but understandable bargain. There are lots os shops and boutiques vying for the visitors’ attention selling artisanal food (excellent, but pricey) and crafts through to more […]
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Sunday Lunch
Walking into a village in Catalonia around lunch time in summer sometimes seems like re-enacting a Clint Eastwood film: the streets are completely empty … The attractive Catalonian village of Monells has a thirteenth century square which these days is set out for that attractive southern European habit of having family Sunday lunches. Not being […]
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Waiting for the train
Waiting for the train at Covent Garden tube station, she seemed somehow anxious. Worried about missing it, or not getting to where she wanted to? Who knows, but for a short moment she stood still enough for a slow exposure to capture her in the difficult lighting underground. This GX200 shot was shot at 35 […]
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Busking
Busking is a long and honourable tradition in London. However, I have rarely heard or seen such an adept performance as that of this quartet playing classical music in Covent Garden. They expressed a real sense of fun, for example playing Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ while parodying the dance. This is not easy to do if you […]
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Elephant Parade
London was full of elephants when I visited. Sometimes they were lone tuskers, sometimes they were in small herds.y were ubiquitous. From standing by the Thames, through the famous shopping streets of London to the heart of Covent Garden the Sadly they were only artistic models, decorated and sponsored to draw attention to the plight […]
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Thames Riverscape
London is in so many ways defined by the Thames. Although it is no longer carrying the trade from round the world that built the city’s fortune, it is still a busy waterway. What better to commemorate this than to have a shot that links the boats, the river and the City that they both […]
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Twisted Bridge
I hadn’t even spotted this bridge between the Royal Opera House and its neighbouring building across the street until I saw some one standing back and shooting up. I tried that, but I thought a better sense of the unusual architecture was gained by shooting pretty much straight up. This twisted bridge connects the Royal […]
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A Scotsman in London
He doesn’t look too happy to be there either, possibly because he was originally advertising the fact the tobacconist shop stocked Scottish snuff while successfully avoiding the laws prohibiting shopkeepers from having overhead signs. This chap is gracing a traditional tobacconist’s shop in Covent Garden and is distinctly not amused by all the high jinks […]
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From Disorder to Order
A complete contrast to the disorder of the churchyard in Westbury are the formal gardens which still exist although the house, the last of a series of buildings dating back to the Norman Conquest, has been long knocked down and replaced by homes. It is a remarkably restful place, brought on by the symmetry of […]
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One Picture, One Day 