Cases

Posted By Mark on Oct 25, 2011

Wandering through the streets of Chichester this lunchtime I passed by the One Legged Jockey store. For fans of retro it's a wonderland in there. I took a few shots of the odds and ends outside on display including this one of a set of old cases. It needed (according to me) some sympathetic processing to really bring home its nostalgic charm. Google+: View post on...

London Architecture

Posted By Mark on Oct 25, 2011

As I mentioned yesterday, we popped up to London on Sunday and, well, London's not really my cup of tea. However… from a purely photographic point-of-view it does herald a fantastic array of decidedly snappable bits and bobs, whether that's people, events, or things. One of those things happens to also be one of my pet loves – architecture – and London definitely doesn't disappoint with its plethora of architectural styles jammed in next to one another. In album London Architecture (26 photos) Google+: View post on...

Love Me Or Lose Me

Posted By Mark on Oct 25, 2011

There's attitude in the walk, attitude in the look, and attitude on the t-shirt. That's three lots of attitude all for the low, low price of absolutely nothing! Google+: View post on...

Ice Cream In London

Posted By Mark on Oct 24, 2011

Yesterday we visited London, the main purpose of which was to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on (and lose to) the Chicago Bears at Wembley. As we always do when visiting the capital, we took the train and then did a bit of the old tourist thing until game time. London is not my favourite place in the world. Okay, London's good for photographers but that can't offset its really annoying problems, those being the woeful inability to get a decent mobile phone signal anywhere (even 1G would have been nice) and the odd opening hours of businesses, specifically pubs. A city packed with tourists and pubs that stay closed on Sunday or only open for about 5 hours is baffling to me. I guess I'm spoilt in Portsmouth. But photographs: yes, London has some great architecture (pictures to come in an album in the next day or so) and, of course, it puts on great sporting spectacles too (pictures to come in an album in the next day or so too) and it's got a large number of interesting people who are used to seeing oddballs with cameras all the time. Good news for me. I spotted the people in this picture somewhere between the Soho and Chinatown areas (those and Covent Garden are my favourite parts of London); they were engrossed with trying out their variety of ice creams and never noticed me standing there waiting for just this shot. Google+: View post on...

Occupy London

Posted By Mark on Oct 24, 2011

I popped up to London yesterday and – among many other things – decided to hop along to St Paul's Cathedral and check out the OccupyLSX group there. Very peaceful, very quiet, very disparate people, and – to my eyes at least – very disparate ideals on show. Some seemed to want to an end to capitalism altogether, others that the fat cats should pay, others for just a shake up in general, some wanted anarchy, etc. The lack of a single message could be taken as a negative thing but I'd like to think that it's positive that so many differences can come together under one umbrella of good old-fashioned, British uppitiness. Hooray for them! In album Occupy London (38 photos) Google+: View post on...

Rocket Man

Posted By Mark on Oct 22, 2011