Monthly Archives: January 2012

Hoisted

A figure gets an undignified shoulder lift.  A trial to see how the dress will look when the bride in hoisted over the threshold, perhaps. Photo: Stourport Manor Hotel, January 2012

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Yule Cottages

Yule Cottages, The Beeches, Whittlesford: The small scale scheme of three dwellings is funded by the will from local resident Betty Yule. It follows on from a public meeting in Whittlesford in summer last year to consider how to break … Continue reading

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Cafe P

There’s a long tradition of taking photographs of lettering and signs – Walker Evans is one of my favourite exponents of the art, he also collected signs themselves.  What is the fascination with these static, everyday presences?  Maybe just their … Continue reading

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Revealed

Demolition work around Spillers Mill, Cambridge, reveals a curious architectural feature.  No function, just pure decoration it seems. Photo: Spillers Mill, CB1 Cambridge, January 2012

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Tattoo Taste

Silent, advert figures may occasionally raise an eyebrow, perhaps because a figure has been left unclothed.  Just occasionally there is something a bit more outrageous, like this beaver shot.  Still it is in a tattoo parlour, not an art form … Continue reading

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Cafe Club

With the possible exception of the retro 1950s-60s wallpaper, on the face of it this is an unremarkable picture of eleven women of a certain age (and certain class) sitting round a table.  What it doesn’t tell is that: the … Continue reading

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Tidy

Tidymindedness in London.  Whatever happened to the innocent pleasure of kicking up the leaves? Photo: Whitehall, London, November 2011

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Cleanliness

The most unexpected thing about visiting the galley on the QM2 was not its cleanliness, that’s expected, but that it had an absolutely neutral smell, neither the tempting aroma of food nor the clinical whiff of cleaning. Photo: QM2 galley … Continue reading

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Reflection

This was seen on a business trip to London.  Proves the good advice: ‘Always carry a camera’. Photo: Great Portland Street, London, 2011

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Last Glove

I once had a framed set of glove photographs on my office wall.  Working for a local authority it seemed appropriate to leaven the routines of bureaucracy with something a little surreal.  They prompted the inevitable questions. ‘Why do you … Continue reading

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Arlington

Arlington National Cemetery on the outskirts of Washington has no comparable focus in this country for honouring the military.  Both the scale of the Cemetery and the large number of visitors, young and old, reflect the higher status accorded the … Continue reading

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Great Portland

When out jogging it may be advisable to think twice about doing stretching exercises at pedestrial crossings. Photo: Great Portland Street, London, 2011

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Flatiron

Flatiron Building, 1902, architect Daniel Burnham.  The one building I most wanted to see on my two-day trip to New York.  It didn’t disappoint, though my photograph does.  All the classic shots show a slightly more oblique view from the … Continue reading

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