As I earlier said, about this taxi, and various photoshopped variants of it: I hope I chance upon the original, and get a go at photoing it myself. Well, yesterday, in Warwick Way, I did chance upon it: I speculated recently that photoing sculpture might be easier to do well in cloudy light. I also … Continue reading My latest advert-taxi photo-target – and my next
Whenever I see a taxi with an interesting advert on it, I try to photo it. To recycle what I said in this, there is something especially appealing about a large number of objects, all exactly the same shape, usually all decked out in the same bland colour, but each one instead decorated differently and … Continue reading Brexit taxis
Here is a recent Scott Adams Dilbert cartoon, although Dilbert himself is not involved in this particular one: I’ve always thought that one of the many things that won the Cold War for Civilisation and doomed Bolshevik Barbarism to defeat was stealth stuff. By its nature, stealth stuff is undetectable, and the better it is, … Continue reading Now you see it – now you don’t
Using phone. Impossible. That is all. LATER: Well, not quite. It seems that it was Google not working. Or something. Everything went black. Why? So after all the usual switch-it-off-switch-in-on-again bollocks, I closed all windows, black as they were and were determined to remain, and then opened just one. And that, this, worked. I found … Continue reading Internet not working
I was surprised and distressed at how quickly and completely England lost the Ashes. They lost the first three tests and that was it. From then on, the important thing was for them to stop 3-0 turning into 5-0. Why is that when we beat Australia, it ends something like 2-1 or 3-1 or 3-2, … Continue reading Ashes Lag strikes
I’m not much of a wildlife photoer, if only because others are so very enthusiastic about it. Nature beautiful. (Hu)Man-made world ugly. Those are the cliches, and bollocks to them. I prefer to celebrate, with my photoing, the human-made world, often by noticing how “natural” (that is non-centrally-dictated) that human-made world so often is, especially … Continue reading The face of a seagull