Pleased to receive a copy of the International Garden Photographer of the Year Book this week, with one of my images, the ‘Urban Forest’ in London.
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Ealing Common Tube Station, 12.4.13
My first compact flash card has the honour of being the first digital gizmo to make it into my antique camera cabinet. An absolute huge 256MB. When I bought this (I think in 2002), it was cutting edge, pretty much top of the range…at £250. Today a 16GB card costs around £20 in the UK. Using this price as a guide, 256MB would now cost 32p. But going back to 2002, 16GB would have cost £15,625.
Petrol pump babies. The birds who made this nest last year don’t appear to have returned yet.
Barry Island, 1980. I saw a blog post about Barry Island last year. In South Wales, it was home of the largest train scrapyard in the UK. Curiosity led to search through some ancient ring binders containing 35mm slides taken as a student. I found a small set of images from a walk, probably in 1980. This made me 19 years old. Yikes! On the side of one of the trains was a hand painted note, “Do not remove parts – for Plym Valley Railway”. I would love to know if the Plym Valley Railway ever took delivery of this […]
Kimi Raikkonen’s win at the Australian GP yesterday got me thinking about the last win for Lotus in an F1 race. I was reminded about a victory in 2012. But before that you have to go back to 1987 and Ayrton Senna at Detroit. Nice to see this team with a competitive car again. I couldn’t resist going through my archives to find these images of a Lotus 49…the car driven by both Jim Clark and Graham Hill. This particular car was driven by Hill. They are stills from a Top Gear shoot in 1997, with Tiff Needell at Snetterton.
A couple of weeks ago I won a category in the International Garden Photographer of The Year….’Greening the City’. It’s from a series of images I have been taking over the last year or so at the Urban Forest at Elephant and Castle.
Whether it be hopeful suitors carving their names, or memorial plaques revealing a favourite place, chairs and seats always tell a story. This location was once a far more grand setting. Near Gunnersbury Park next to the A4, it looked very neglected, positioned virtually under the M4 Flyover. When I went back yesterday, it had gone. I wondered what memories disappeared with it.
Southbank, London.
The first walk I’ve done in a while…..