Monthly Archives: January 2011

Not Greenland

Last night on ‘Human Planet’ Greenlanders were using blue rope to catch Greenland Sharks through the sea ice. Photo: Hills Road, Cambridge, 28th January 2011

Posted in Blue Rope | Leave a comment

Purls Bridge

A day bird watching with DaveW at Purls Bridge.  Solitude, majestic skies, whistling Wigeon and twenty-seven species of birds. Photo:  Ouse Washes, Purls Bridge, Manea, 25th January 2011

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Free to a good home

Found on a stroll round the suburbs on a chilly, grey Sunday afternoon. Godwin Way, Cambridge, 23rd January 2011

Posted in Urban Ephemera | Leave a comment

Spitalfields Revisited

When I was in London on the 19th I walked round Bishops Square, next to Old Spitalfields Market.  I recalled taking photographs in the Market a while ago, before it moved to Leyton and decided to dig out the pictures.  … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

ES Documantary

Edwin Smith is one of the great British architectural photographers of the 20th century.  To those familiar with this work the inclusion of documentary photographs of fairs, circuses and miners dating from the mid to late 1930s in the main … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

London Wall

Yesterday I went to a meeting at the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.  Its offices, in a rather shabby 18th Century town house in the shadow of brash, modern, Bishops Gate, are a parody of the organisation. I saw … Continue reading

Posted in Silent Figures | Leave a comment

Trieste

Analogue at Riflemaker, a requiem for the darkroom.  Cluttered spaces, tidy spaces; stacks of red white and yellow boxes; coffee cups, CDs, snaps pinned to walls.  The memories of the acrid redolence of dev-stop-fix and the magical emergence of images. … Continue reading

Posted in Ruckenfigur - Rear View | Leave a comment

Tete-a-Tate

The alternative office: business discussion in the cafe at Tate Britain. Photo: Tate Britain, 10th January 2011

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Binge

A litter bin at a bus stop in Cambridge.  Is there a direct correlation between smoking and using public transport?  Is waiting for a bus that frustrating? Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge 8th January 2011

Posted in Urban Ephemera | Leave a comment

Muybridge & ruckenfigur

To London to see ‘Eadweard Muybridge’ at Tate Britain, 10th January 2011.  The exhibition includes three examples of rückenfigur: a figure with a gun beside a lake, in the Brandenburg Album; five figures, again looking out over a lake, Solalo … Continue reading

Posted in Ruckenfigur - Rear View | Leave a comment

Remains 4

The fourth element of Remains: an abandoned and vandalised bicycle left on the verge.  The metal adds a new element to the largely organic and natural materials of gloves, animals and boats. Photo: St Ives, 24th July 2010

Posted in Remains | Leave a comment

Eat

To London to present a short paper on tourism and planning to an ICRT conference.  It’s pouring as I emerge from Bank Station and struggle against a tide of umbrellas down Walbrook Street.  On Cannon Street I find consolation in … Continue reading

Posted in Urban Ephemera | Leave a comment

Remains 3

The tones appear to be more consistent with Remains 2. Photo: Aldeburgh, 25th April 2010

Posted in Remains | Leave a comment

Remains 2

I think this is better, if a deal more gruesome.  However, the tones are not consistent with Remains 1. Photo: Toad, Orford 30th August 2010

Posted in Remains | Leave a comment

Remains 1

‘Remains’ is a project I have been thinking about for some time.  The aim is to look at how objects – animals, bicycles, boats and gloves – decay and part merge into the background while retaining their identity.  The images … Continue reading

Posted in Remains | Leave a comment