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We (well…Debbie) put up the Christmas decorations and tree up today so the house feels nice and festive now. To celebrate I tried my hand at deliberately taking a totally unfocused shot of the tree with the lights on to create this effect. The Christmas lights appear as those disks
Well, it was -3c last night so I thought it was about time to revisit last summer and warm ourselves up again. So here’s how the windmill at Aythorpe Roding looked on a hot August afternoon.
Walking back from the car just 10 minutes ago (it’s 00.05 on the 9/12/11) I looked up at the moon and noticed a very visible and clear circle around the moon. I popped inside and got my camera. Now, the technical qualities of the photograph aren’t necessarily great, but hand-held
…this picture from the last London Photowalk came top of the pile. I just found out today and am well chuffed! See the London Photowalk web page here. You might have seen a slightly different version of this image on this blog a couple of weeks ago – just click
On the recent London Photowalk we visited the Shad Thames area which is instantly recognisable, even now, as the warehouse area featured in The Doctor Who series Resurrection of the Daleks in 1984. If you venture off the main cobbled street you’ll find squares formed by the restored warehousing and
So, one last shot of Tower Bridge in London from last Sunday. Whilst I was processing this I wondered why the bridge was painted blue. In fact it was painted red, white and blue for the Silver Jubilee back in 1977, previously it had, apparently, been a chocolatey colour. It
This was taken on the London Photowalk last Sunday and shows Tower Bridge from St Catherine’s Dock.
The HMS Belfast is a fixture of the Thames now. Launched on St Patricks Day (obviously) in 1938 she saw action in the Second World War and the Korean War. She was finally moored on the Thames and turned into a museum in 1971. This photograph shows the detail of
Has anyone ever noticed the similarities between Doctor Who’s Robot and London’s City Hall? Robot was Tom Baker’s first story in Doctor Who – it was first broadcast 28th December 1974 – and I can remember watching it quite clearly…I was 6 and hiding behind the sofa 😉
When walking around the countryside in Essex you periodically see a flash of grey as a squirrel zips up a tree, very rarely do you get an easy picture out of them. Not so this little fella just outside London’s City Hall.
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