Early light
Yesterday I went on the expedition I told myself yesterday I’d go on, which was good. Although, I didn’t do the Dangleway bit at the end, because I was too knackered. Sadly, though, the weather...
View ArticleNow thrive the scaffolders: The Albert Hall
The previous posting concerned August 4th 2017. Here are two photos I took on August 4th 2018, of scaffolding: Another posting in what might in due course become a series, although I promise nothing....
View ArticleBlue sky – sun – concrete – cranes – crane shadows
Every time I go to St James’s Park tube I go past the cranes that are labouring away to make The Broadway. Yesterday these cranes were looking especially fine in the late afternoon sunshine, casting...
View ArticleYesterday in Euston Road
Yesterday I met up with a friend in Kings Cross, and afterwards, what with the victoria Line being all over the shop, I walked along the Euston Road, to places where other tube lines could be easily...
View ArticleThe Helter Skelter that never was
I don’t often often get close up with the Big Things of the City of London. Mostly I just admire the changing scene they have made for London over the last two decades, but from a distance. But in...
View ArticleThe new Google building in King’s Cross is taking shape
And the shape is the big green thing that someone has stuck in the middle of this photo …: … which I found here. More about this building-to-be here. On the right, King’s Cross railway station. On the...
View ArticleWhen you don’t know it’s temporary
It’s all very well to say, as I often do, that it makes more sense to photo temporary stuff than stuff that will be around for ever. Sometimes, you do know that something will be temporary, like...
View ArticleUrban picturesque
Indeed: Photoed by me in September 2013. I have labelled this photo “NearlyEverything” because for me, it has nearly everything. Scaffolding, roof clutter ancient and modern, a crane, Magic Hour light,...
View ArticleNow thrive the scaffolders: Near Waterloo
Photoed by me, just over two years ago, from Lower Marsh: Sometimes it is hard to distinguish between scaffolding and actual building.
View ArticleKeeping up appearances with scaffolding and a painted sheet
I don’t know exactly where this was, only approximately. It was somewhere in the vicinity of Leicester and Trafalgar Squares, these being the place where I photoed the photo just before this on and...
View ArticleTasting the sunshine out east last August
Yes, last summer I went on several exeditions to such places as the Dome, and beyond. Here is a clutch of photos I photoed in the beyond category. On August 11th, I journeyed to the Dome, then took the...
View ArticleBig Ben is having its scaffolding removed
Here’s a photo I took from just upstream of the Blackfriars Station entrance. It is of one of the many weird alignments you get, from the fact that the River Thames is not straight, but full of twists...
View ArticleLady photoers in 2013
Once again, I am catching up with showing you photos, this time photos photoed on a sunny day in September 2013, all of lady photoers. We are in my most regular photoing-photoers places, outside...
View ArticleA decade of photos – one from each year
I originally got together these photos, one for each year of the decade now ending, with Samizdata in mind. But then I did a posting looking back at Christmas Day for there, with lots of photos, and...
View ArticleBig Ben scaffolding on the HP sauce label
Kevin Brennan MP supplies the proof: Far too good not to copy and paste into here. Yum. And scaffolding.
View ArticleTrees and other Things
I’ve not being doing much out-and-abouting lately. But yesterday the weather looked good and I managed a photo-expedition. My odyssey was a familiar one. I walked past the Channel 4 TV headquarters...
View ArticleStatues in Parliament Square
Being unable to use public transport, but still allowed to venture out of doors on foot, I have been concentrating my photographic attention on nearby places. And I have become especially fixated on...
View ArticleOut and across Lambeth Bridge
This afternoon, I ventured out of doors. What with the weather being so nice: Because public transport has recently been something that Non-essential Workers (apparently the world can do without...
View ArticleOne Park Drive – in January 2019 and now
For me, January 17th 2019 began wonderfully, with scaffolding. I was on my way to meet up with occasional commenter here Alastair James, in Docklands, and it was a great day. Meeting him in Docklands...
View ArticleQuota scaffolding shadows
I’m back from my photo-walk and it was every bit as physically knackering as I feared. But, what with me having done more than one posting here each day for the last few weeks now, here is another...
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