At the old blog, it was quota photos. Now it’s quota galleries, because they’re so easy to do (at least compared to how hard they used to be to do). And just as I didn’t expect you to expend any more time than you felt like expending on those quota photos, so I don’t expect … Continue reading Paris photographique
Indeed: Usual story. Started to write a piece for here. Realised it would go better there. Carried on writing it anyway. So, here? That. Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog
One of the things about travel in foreign parts is that you regularly see things which you just do not understand. And for me, when I was in Paris on May 5th, this photo, hastily snatched while crossing a road, definitely falls into the I Do Not Understand This category: The buildings reflected in the … Continue reading Upside down chickens in a Paris shop window
I’m back home now, but yes, earlier today I had lunch in Paris. I don’t normally do food photoing, but I reckon this one came out pretty well: This photo was an afterthought, but that helped because I photoed the food while it was being eaten rather than before we started, which worked out better, … Continue reading Lunch in Paris
More Dezeen catching up. And this time the news is that Paris is about to get its first truly Grand Chose since the Montparnasse Tower. Paris is, in certain Parisian minds anyway, suffering from London Big Thing Envy, and they want to change the place. “The change in regulations is a historic moment,” the architects … Continue reading A new Grand Chose for Paris
Following on from yesterday’s ruminations, in among lots of stuff that doesn’t fascinate me, including one posting about shit, is a report about Paris’ tallest building in over 40 years. Presumably “Paris” doesn’t include La Défense, which is out on the edge of Paris. Those Big Things are very big indeed. What they’re talking about … Continue reading A new not very big Thing in Paris
I loved them when I photoed them last January. Now the chimney pots and rooftops of Paris get serious Real Photographer attention, from Michael Wolf: One of David Thompson’s latest clutch of ephemera. Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog
Anton Howes has been asking himself Why Didn’t the Ottomans Print More? In the course of sketching an answer, he says interesting things about how printing did get started in Europe: When we think of the invention of the Gutenberg press, we often associate it with the spread of the Reformation a few decades later. … Continue reading Anton Howes on how printing got started
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 next view looking upstream at the same point in London, also including the now rather small looking … Continue reading “587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London …”
Nowadays, cameras can tell you exactly where you were when you took a photo, as well as exactly when you took it. But I can’t be doing with all that. I prefer taking photos like this one as I do my out-and-abouting, that say, as this one does, “You Are Here”: And that one says … Continue reading One for the “You Are Here” collection