Pictures Of Passports Past
Images from mine and my wife’s past passports, featuring visa stamps and horrific passport photos of the two of us in our respective youths. Not as horrific as the photos in our current passports, though, so there is that. The image on the front of the old British passport in black. I once passed through Athens security with this passport upside down, back to front, and closed, and was still waved through because of the respect it held throughout the world. Or because of the indifference of the security person. I’d like to think it was the former as there had only recently been a terrorist activity – a bombing, I think – in Greece when I was travelling. As you can see, my passport was issued in Gwent. And that’s all you can see. Behold my youthful narrowness and lopsided, spiky hair! Rest assured that with age has come width and more evenly-dispersed, less spiky hair. It would be fair to say that I am more difficult to push off balance these days. My wife – she wasn’t back then – dressed in her arctic warfare uniform. At a guess. She was, apparently, very hungover when this passport photograph was taken. An immigration stamp from my wife’s passport when she visited family in the United States. A visa stamp from my wife’s passport, again for the United States. My wife made a border crossing from the United States into the wilds of Canada and all she got was this lousy customs stamp. From our first European-style passport and from our honeymoon where we jetted off to Asia for a cruise this is my Chinese visa stamp. Photos from that cruise can be found on my Flickr stream: Honeymoon – Far East Cruise. Stamps from our honeymoon: Hong Kong, Singapore, and China. More passport stamps from our honeymoon cruise on board the Diamond Princess: Vietnam and Japan. Final immigration stamps from the honeymoon cruise and that particular passport: Taiwan and Thailand. One of several almost identical stamps in the current passport because the only place we’ve been since renewing is the United States. It’s a real shame you can’t carry passport stamps over from one passport to the next, losing that stampy history every ten years when you renew. However, the next set of stamps we should be getting will all be from South America as that’s the next area of the world we’re heading to. Not for a little while yet but looking forward to getting a few more pages of the passport filled in with...
Young Vladimir Putin
Astonishingly, future Russian president Vladimir Putin was even more conservative in his youth and would never dream of appearing topless in public.
Photography By Enig Hui
Enig Hui describes himself as “street, train, rail track, Iceland, nordic, Borneo, Malaysian” and I’d describe him as a well-travelled photographer with an eye for the sort of photos I like. In fact he takes photos in a variety of styles and you can check them all out on Enig’s website but the ones that I’d like to highlight are those that feature lines, symmetry, and perspective, things that I find particularly stylish in photography. Great photos that draw the eye in, through, and around them. If you prefer landscape or urban photos then Enig’s got you covered there...
Photography By Cari Ann Wayman
One of the people I follow on Flickr and whom I often end up favouriting nearly everything she posts is Cari Ann Wayman. Cari hails from northern Illinois and has a penchant for taking pictures of herself in abandoned buildings. As luck would have it I like abandoned building photography and Cari’s pictures are great examples. The mix of decayed surroundings with Cari herself produces some fantastic, contrasting compositions. One of the most impressive aspects of the photos is the great light she seems to get too; not something I would have imagined a typical abandoned building would have. A selection of Cari Ann’s photos. In addition to her Flickr page Cari’s photography can be found on her website and her Facebook...
Portsmouth Street Games
Last weekend saw Portsmouth Street Games make an appearance in Guildhall Square. For two days we were treated to free runners, roller derby girls, cyclists, live music, and lots of street art from local and national artists. The weather was good, there were plenty of stalls selling arts, crafts, and refreshments, and I think it’s fair to say that fun was had by all who attended. I’ve uploaded the photos I took of the day to my Flickr stream and you can view the full set of images in an album here: Portsmouth Street Games 2014. Here’s a selection of photos to whet your appetite or, alternatively, save you the bother of checking that album out. The “games” element of the weekend featured cyclists, skateboarders, scooters, roller derby, exercising, dancing, and free-running. There were also activities for kids in the way of amusement rides and the chance to do some supervised street art of their own. An area was set aside for a DJ to play music and there was even some live entertainment from local rapper Blessed. For me the biggest draw of the weekend was the street art, co-organised by local legend My Dog Sighs and featuring pieces created over the two days by street artists local and national. A New York subway train was the largest bit of canvas and drew some attention from British Transport Police on the Saturday morning who raised concerns that its presence was irresponsible and could lead to people deciding to spray paint on some of the local rolling stock. What a sad bunch of people they...
Eastney Beam Engine House
An ever-so-slightly processed (subtle, but if you look closely you can possibly tell) shot of the Eastney Beam Engine House in Portsmouth. Described on the museum's own website – http://www.portsmouthmuseums.co.uk/museum-service/Eastney-Beam-Engine-House – as "an impressive Victorian building containing a pair of classic Boulton Watt beam engines and pumps restored to their original 1887 condition." They're not wrong about the impressive part. Or the engines part. I'll have to take their word regarding the original 1887 condition part because my time machine's in the shop getting fixed. If you're in the area on the last weekend in the month and you like machinery made of brass and dials with needles turn you on and girders and walkways send a ripple of excitement up your spine then it's definitely worth a visit. Google+: View post on...
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