Feb
05
It’s surprisingly hard to get good photos of a city at night. Lord knows I’ve tried, and lord knows I’ve failed. It’s said that a lighting designer should be able to take good photos, as it’s all about colour, contrast, angles etc., but frankly no matter how well-intentioned my composition, I always find that the …
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Jan
18
Well it’s stonking, isn’t it? ‘Nuff said, my work here is done…. The basic facts are easy and fairly well known. The original St. Pauls Cathedral died a horrid death during the Great Fire of London in 1666, along with most of the city and several million rats, a large number of which were carrying …
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Jan
07
Highgate Cemetery. I’d been meaning to go for years, as it seems a disgraceful thing to class yourself as a proper, let’s-turn-it-all-to-fictional-uses Londoner and not go to Highgate Cemetery. It’s famous beyond the boundaries of North London, as a proper overgrown wildness where famous people are buried amid claws of ivy and ancient, cracked stones. …
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Dec
20
This will be a post mostly in pictures, owing to the fact that I managed to burn the finger that does the letters ‘u’, ‘j’, and ‘n’ on a soldering iron, and as a touch typer I’m really not coping well with trying to write with a plaster the size of an elephant’s slipper on …
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Dec
11
My, isn’t it tall? It’s so tall I can see it from where I live, which is saying something. I mean, I know ‘my isn’t it tall’ is a fairly obvious statement, but then, really, the Shard, is there much else to say? Because really.. honestly… but my, it is tall, isn’t it?
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Nov
14
I like London in the autumn. Make no mistakes, there are certain snags… it gets dark unreasonably early, and I go through multiple pairs of gloves in an attempt to prevent my fingers turning blue (which they do remarkably easily). Getting out of bed becomes harder, and getting back into it takes longer as there’s …
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Oct
23
On a completely different note, this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_hassan/sets/72157602733736862/ … is pure genius. Quirky, implausible, and genius. And in Muswell Hill, of all places – not exactly the most glamorous or trendy corner of London. Thanks to the gentleman known as Space Hopper for the link…
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Sep
30
… but fairly angelic?
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Aug
30
Name that panorama…
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Aug
14
It’s been a while since I did proper pictures of London! So, a new pastime! Name that bridge…
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