Monthly Archives: July 2012

Shingle Street 2

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Brian

“At Shingle Street we cross the quietly famous ‘shell line’: a trail of white whelks laid side to side that stretches from a fisherman’s cottage, out over the shingle for 200 yards or so, before dipping towards the sea. A … Continue reading →

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Shingle Street 1

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Brian

Shingle Street in Suffolk is somewhere I’ve wanted to explore for years, but had not made it until now.  A curious place, dominated it seems by holiday lets, on the road to nowhere.  It sits on a great shingle bank … Continue reading →

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Geraniums

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Brian

The ephemera of the early evening light, an illuminatuon  possible now only because two rooms of a terraced house have been knocked into one.  The once solid divinding wall has gone, ephemeral in its way. Photo: Devonshire Road, Cambridge, July 2012

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Chrysalis

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Brian

I like the way that wrapping objects turns them into something else, often lumpy and misshapen and sometime mysterious.  Ephemeral manmade chrysalis.  Is what is beneath a thing of butterflylike beauty?  Robert Frank’s ‘Covered car – Long Beach, California’ gets … Continue reading →

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St Margaret’s

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Brian

St Margaret’s, King’s Lynn, revisited with Lightroom 3.  See post 30th June. Photo: St Margaret’s, King’s Lynn, March 2010

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Watching

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Brian

When we were children in the 1950s we would be taken occasionally to the seaside in Norfolk or Suffolk.  It was usually on a Sunday and as we returned in the evening people in the villages we passed through would … Continue reading →

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Einstein

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Brian

In September 1933, Albert Einstein was brought to live in a hut on Roughton Heath after fleeing Germany. Oliver Locker-Lampson offered Einstein a refuge in Norfolk before he travelled to the USA. The nearest railway station is at Roughton Road … Continue reading →

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Trees

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Brian

Mildly threaputic walk in the park this morning.  Well, beats staring at four walls and a screen. Photo: Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge, July 2012

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