Monthly Archives: September 2011

Unreal

This hyper real, hyper perfect (the stray strands of hair excepted) face the other side of the glass sells fashion.  Its otherworldliness might fit better a sci-fi computer game. Photo: Bury St Edmunds 15th September 2011

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Tears & Toys

Neil Sedaka ‘Laugher and Tears’ vinyl, released 1976, spends its Silver Jubilee in a charity shop – old music, obsolete technology.  How much laughter and tears flowed over the cuddly toys languishing without the hope of a Toy Story rescue?  … Continue reading

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Atavistic

What is one to think about foxes?   Wilde had a culinary view of them: “The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”  For hen-keepers they are more than inedible, they are murderous … Continue reading

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Accident

I stopped to photograph the blue rope with its makeshift prayer flags and saw the fox.  No connection – an odd juxtaposition. Photo: Granhams Road, Cambridge 22nd September 2011

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Right Foot

A silent figure in the chiropodist’s world of advertising reduced to a minimum. Photo: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 15th September

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Insubstantial

The age and solidity of these objects suggest they are anything but urban ephemera.  Yet in one sense they are: they have been there so long and are so much taken for granted that they are no longer noticed, they … Continue reading

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Piccadilly

Shooting from the hip is a game of chance – you can’t tell what’s happening.  And you don’t see the warning sign ‘No memory card’ flashing on the screen.  I wonder what those pictures on the outward journey to Piccadilly would … Continue reading

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Crazy

In the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, temporary crazy golf holes on the edge of the sacred bowing geen wait for putters that never come. Photo: Bury St Edmunds 15th September 2011

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Pigeon

Pigeon untouched, undisturbed by a footpath.  Cause of death? Photo: St Ives, 2nd September 2011

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Grant

Decaying shrine by a footpath overlooking a lake.  “Grant, Forever in My Heart, Fell Asleep, 2nd April 2003”.  Grant, human or dog, man or child?  Now forgotten? Photo: St Ives, Cambs, 2nd September 2011

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Wedding Bliss

Outside RIBA Davina poses for wedding photographs by a retro car.  The Falun Gong protest stand is handy for the champagne glasses.  Across the road, out of sight, a red flag flies outside the Chinese Embassy. Photo: Portland Place, 7th … Continue reading

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Flag

Patriotic rubbish, perhaps. Photo: Broadway, London 8th September 2011

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Waiting

They might be waiting for an event, a passing Royal or a gawpable celebrity.  No.  Just waiting for the green man to appear. Photo: Victoria Street, London 7th September 2011

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Hogarthian

Sometimes shop dummies take on a rather spooky, disturbing reality.  On this one the curious angle of the legs dispels first impressions, but at the same time creates echoes of Hogarth’s ‘Gin Lane’ with the baby adding to the effect. … Continue reading

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Disembodied

Reflections transform an ordinary bus journey into a strange disembodied movement in time and space.  A sideways glance from both subject and photographer. Photo: Bloomsbury Street, London, 1st September 2011

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