Petrol pump babies. The birds who made this nest last year don’t appear to have returned yet.
Category Archives: Urban Landscape
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 […]
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.
The first walk I’ve done in a while…..
Richard Reynolds, the guerrilla gardener, told me about these plots last year. I paid several visits to the area at the time, recording the site and surrounding environment. On Friday I took more photographs, looking at the changes over the last 12 months. So a gallery of new images.
I’ve been staring at this roll of film on my desk since the beginning of August, which for various reasons, never got processed. As I was working this weekend, I didn’t have time to shoot any new personal material, so it was a good opportunity to pay the local lab a visit. From a walk from Kew Gardens to Ealing.
They are from a shoot I did for Top Gear.. probably in 1999. Journo Peter Grunert and I spent a nightshift with a traffic officer in Chicago. Quite cool really, and were even passengers in a mini car chase with a speeding driver who decided not to stop on the Freeway. Those big American Fords handle like barges when weaving at 105mph!
