Kids Stuff/Adult Stuff

Londoners may recognise the lights in this diptych as the signs you find around Soho outside the bookstores, lingerie shops and video stores of London's seedier side of the West End. 

Soho has toy shops aplenty but the one in the foreground won't be familiar to the usual purveyor of vibrating phalluses and studded paddles, no, those belong to GOSH! the comic store.

I don't actually believe that kids are the only audience for comics, I'm currently reading some Adrian Tomine which is not suitable for kids at all, but I wanted to choose a title that highlighted the dichotomy of this one view.

 

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Bestival Festival 2011: ♡♥

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Bestival Festival 2011: Enjoy The Sunshine But Prepare For Rain

How very British!

 

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Bestival Festival 2011: Tamer and Lion

The theme of this years fancy dress was Superstars and Popstars, but the theme isn't strictly enforece (nothing is strictly enforced at Bestival) so you will see all sorts of fantastic costumes.

These ladies, I can only assume (because I can't remember what they told me), are a stylish lion and a lion tamer, nothing to do with the theme at all, but they look great.

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Aenigmate Per Speculum

I know! I know that I've used this title before, but I like it, I feel the phrase adds foreboding and mystery. Unlike many photographers I do believe that a title affects the reading of a photograph. It can encourage further interpretation or it can simply tell the viewer how to interpret the photo bluntly and without subtlety.

For a title, take your time and consider it or take no time at all and forego it.

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Living Fast, Brick Lane

I enjoy a stroll down Brick Lane every once in a while, it's interesting to see just how much it and the surrounding area changes and how rapidly those changes occur.

The people seem to stay the same though, the same age, the same fashions and the same modes of transport.

During a coffee stop I practiced panningand got these shots. I hope you like them.

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Whitstable

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Canterbury Cathedral

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More Canterbury Cathedral

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Wonky photos.

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Westferry, London

It's probably not too clever announcing to the world where you live, yet here I am again with another couple of photos of my neighbourhood. I guess I did exactly the same thing when I live in Leytonstone but expect a lot more now I'm a stones throw from Canary Wharf (expect a lot more stones to be thrown too... we've not forgiven the bankers yet... well I haven't). 

So I took these photos from the bank of the Thames, I actually can walk right down onto the shore and be at water lever, well when it's low tide anyway. I need more practice at this kind of photography, I have a few rolls (folders) of photos which are blurred, underexposed, dull, uninspiring or all of the above. I hope that these two are none of those things. You decide.

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More Whitstable

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Here are some more photos from Whitstable photos. I hope you're all having a great Monday.

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Whitstable Days & Nights

I don't often just take a day off work and go visit some distant place (not distant) but when a antipodean friend visited our fair shores I decided to take a days holiday and visit Canterbury Cathedral. None of these photos are of the cathedral by the way, because my plans, made out of sand as they were, changed after I had spent time under the lofty roof of the cathedral and then become thirsty.

Where better to have a drink on the one sunny day we've had all year (not bitter) than then seaside? No where, that's where. So I and my friend went to Whitstable, drank wine, ate cheese (please visit The Cheese Box if you ever go), chatted and took photos. Here are four I hope you like.

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These Humble Places of Worship

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St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol:

St Mary Redcliffe is an Anglican parish church located in the Redcliffe district of the English port city of Bristol, close to the city centre. Constructed from the 12th to the 15th centuries, the church is a Grade 1 listed building,^[1] St Mary Redcliffe is renowned for the beauty of its Gothic architecture, having been described by Queen Elizabeth I as "the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England."

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Landscapes | Holkham Revisited

Last night, the photographic society had a guest speaker, Chris Palmer (his website here). He showed a collection of his work and some slides he had taken for the purposes of illustrating techniques to improve landscape photos.

I take a passing interest in Landscape but I'm no fanatic. However the talk inspired me to look back to my Holkham visit and grab one of the landscape photos I took there.

Looking forward I think I'm going to take a greater interest in Landscape photography, Chris called it a craft and I agree that it takes an a lot of skill and dedication. The dedication I can do, the skill, I hope will follow.

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Future Musings | Queens Walk

Did I mention that I went to a party in Tower Bridge? I meant to mention it... a party, in Tower Bridge, yep, yep, cutting the rug over the Thames, it was fun. The view weren't that bad either. 

It looks like The Future doesn't it, a future in which we have an infinite and renewable source of energy so we never have to turn lights off, in fact in this future turning lights off is frowned upon because it makes things look ugly and makes them hard to photograph (even at 3200 ISO).

Hope you enjoyed the photo and my little utopian musings. More photos soon.

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