-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Brian Human on Cream Tea
- Roy on Cream Tea
- Brian Human on Double Exposures
- Roy on Double Exposures
- Brian Human on Photo Wallets
- Annebella Pollen on Photo Wallets
- Brian Human on Analog Disincentives
- Roy on Analog Disincentives
- Brian Human on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
- Peter Kersh on Spanish Adventure, Norman Lewis
Archives
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
Categories
- 100 Photographs
- Anglesey Abbey
- Blue Rope
- Cafes
- Cambridge
- Covid 19
- Endings
- Erewhon
- Fen Landscape
- Figures
- Film
- Film Ends
- In Plain View/Light
- Joan Leigh Fermor
- Land Sea Sky
- Mining the Diaries
- Only Colour
- Photography in Fiction
- Remains
- Ruckenfigur – Rear View
- Shingle Street
- Silent Figures
- Street Photography
- Take a Seat
- The Beechwoods
- The Mani
- Travellers
- Travels
- U3AC Photography Courses
- Uncategorized
- Undertow
- Urban Ephemera
- Venice
- Voyage Round My Room
- Walking
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Monumental
The Washington Monument in numbers: built 1848-1888; 555 feet high; 90,854 tons in weight; 36,000 pieces of marble and granite; 897 steps to the observation deck; and 50 surrounding flag poles. Photo: Washington Monument 21st April 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Topdeck
Bus travel comes with a sightseeing tour if you ride on top. Photo: Citi 3 bus, Cambridge 18th April 2011
Posted in Travellers
Leave a comment
Primesight
A Big Issue seller and a local bypasser help two Japanese visitors with directions. Photo: Station Road, Cambridge, 18th April 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Wordfest
Cambridge Wordfest 2011. Roger McGough: ‘Don’t grow too big for your roots’; ‘The clash of opening times and bed times’; ‘Born in a street, they died in a road’; Alzheimer’s, ‘Howling at the Scrabble Board’. Andre Mangeot: ‘The real music … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mani 7
Kambos: Patrick Leigh Fermor is very dismissive about the village and things haven’t really changed. Photo: Kambos, Mani, Greece, 16th June 2010
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Mani 6
Lazy afternoon, the main square, Kardamili. The Greek flag hangs limply by the memorial. Cicadas call, cars growl by, the fountain murmurs. The whine of a motor bike, the faint cooing of a dove. Clean smell of pines in the heat. … Continue reading
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Arles
At the end of a wet afternoon two worried passengers wait in the booking hall at Arles station. Photo: Arles, France, 12th March 2010
Posted in Travellers
Leave a comment
Mani 5
South to Trachila. Very quiet: two people at a harbourside cafe; men working on a building; three fishermen messing with their boats. There are old and new houses, some dereliction and some conversions and rebuilding. Holiday homes? The church is … Continue reading
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Mani 4
Pano Kardamili, the evocative remains of a Maniot clan stronghold. Superficial echoes of a medieval castle in England, yet the later buildings date from the early 19th century, four or five hundred years after English barons last fortified their lands. … Continue reading
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Mani 3
Vathia, high above the sea, amazing and extraordinary as though carved from the living rock. Who owns it or is responsible? It ought to be a World Heritage Site. Photo: Vathia, Mani, Greece, 17th June 2011
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Palm & Pond
The Tropical House, University of Cambridge, Botanic Garden. Photo: Botanic Garden, 9th April 2011
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mani 2
Mulberry trees found growing in some Kardamili gardens are left over from the silk industry. Silk was produced up to the 1960s and sent to Kalamata. ‘Morea’ come from the mulberry – the Morea was the name of the Peloponnese … Continue reading
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Green Street 2
See post 22nd December 2010. Three and a half months later the ghosts of a business remain and no entrepreneur comes along to clothe the nakedness of the recession. Photo: Green Street, Cambridge 7th April 2011
Posted in Silent Figures, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Mani 1
Agios Spiridon, Pano Kardamili; the walls incorporate megalithic blocks from ancient fortifications Photo: Agios Spiridon, Kardamili, June 2010
Posted in The Mani
Leave a comment
Glove 2
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy 22 January – 7th April 2011 Making Do and Getting By – a Selection of Everyday Encounters 1970-85, Richard Wentworth, includes photographs of gloves on railings Shoe Waste 1970-2005, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, uses/shows a trail … Continue reading
Posted in Urban Ephemera
Leave a comment