Same formula as the previous post. Ooh that’s nice: But puzzle. What is it? We see the Shard there, but where are we? What direction are we looking at the Shard from? Context: We are at the Dome end of the Dangleway, looking across the Greenwich Peninsular towards the towers of Docklands, with central London … Continue reading Urban picturesque with Shard
To add to the collection. Although the second one here is maybe more urban gothic, because in it, a piece of innocent roof clutter looks more like some kind of science fiction monster: Those were taken at the top of my block of flats, way back in 2006, just as I was starting to get … Continue reading More urban picturesque
This was not the very first photo I photoed with my new Panasonic Lumix FZ150. These were the first of those. But this was one of the earlier ones: I have many times photoed those spikes on the Hungerford Footbridges, that join the South Bank to Embankment Tube, on each side of the railway into … Continue reading Urban picturesque 2012
Indeed: Photoed by me in September 2013. I have labelled this photo “NearlyEverything” because for me, it has nearly everything. Scaffolding, roof clutter ancient and modern, a crane, Magic Hour light, the lot. Well, not the lot, there are things I like that are not present in this photo. But a lot of the lot. … Continue reading Urban picturesque
I couldn’t make these two selfies by noted Real Photographer of Yesteryear, Emil Otto Hoppé, any bigger in this posting while keeping them lined up. (Long shot: WordPress “Gallery” experts please comment with instructions.) But anyway, here they are to be clicked on, if you fancy it: I found these photos here. On the left, … Continue reading E.O. Hoppé – fame – oblivion – fame again
Fifteen years ago today, I did a posting at my old blog, which later got transferred to this blog, which featured the sunset, as seen and photoed by me in Hampstead. Here is one of those photos, which I chose for the roof clutter: Very urban picturesque. I seldom do sunsets, if only because others … Continue reading A sunset fifteen years ago
This posting began several evenings ago as a quota photo post, with this pretty little scene being the beginning and the end of it: But then I again got thinking about how significant it is that, typically, vapour trails look at they do above, but do not look like this, below: That evil vapour trail … Continue reading Good vapour trail – evil vapour trail – hybrid vapour trail
One of the biggest architectural trends of the last half century has been the relentless replacement of rough and unreflective surfaces with smooth and shiny surfaces, concrete by glass, old school stones and bricks by glass or shiny bricks held up by regular bricks. Glass is now omnipresent, even as much of it is deliberately … Continue reading The shininess of architectural modernity
All photoed by me, in 2015, apart from the last one, which was photoed by me earlier this year: They are: the statue of Mercury on top of Telephone House (also featured in this photo); the Big Olympic Thing; Pavlova; and the Optic Cloak. I have many photos in the archives of all of these … Continue reading My four most favourite London sculptures