Philadelphia photos
We were only there for a day, but here’s four pages of photos from this most excellent city. I’m still (cough! hint!) waiting for some captions from a Philly-based urbanite, …
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London photo feature updates!
I’ve been out and about with my Ricoh GR and Nikon D80 cameras wandering the streets of London. Here’s my latest photo features: A walk from Green Park to Bloomsbury, …
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Welcome to Brixton!
“They want your iPod” Eeek!
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Amy Winehouse at the Astoria, London
Blimey. How good was she? The cover of Toots & The Maytals, “Monkey Man” at the end was inspired too. Great gig! Afterwards, we paid a visit to the new …
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Holiday Craftacular, NYC
Here’s some photos from a December trek out to Greenpoint to check out Bust magazine’s “Holiday Craftacular” It was fun but waaaay too busy! More pics
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More NYC photos: Greenpoint, Rockefeller Center
Some more photos from December’s Stateside trip. We checked out the recently reopened observation deck at the Rockefeller Center and the views were fantastic (although it was really cold up …
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More NYC photos
Only another few hundred to go! 🙂 Here’s another page of night/dusk pics around Battery Park, Broadway and Chinatown:NYC photos
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New York photos update
I’m slowly working my way through the photos taken during our trip to New York in December last year: New York photos I’ve also added a short feature on my …
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“Oy you! You can’t take that picture….”
So, I’m walking along Avemaria Lane (near St Pauls) minding my own business. It’s a quiet afternoon and there’s barely anyone around. I’ve got my little Ricoh GR digital compact …
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Trafalgar Square to St Pauls
Some photos from my walk yesterday: ow turnout for the Biblical Gospel Ministries’ in Trafalgar Square Photographer’s Gallery, Leicester Square A statue of Fenner Brockway, an activist who I’d never …
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Amen Court and Amen Corner
Read more about this little known corner of London here: Amen Court
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Brixton snow!
Well, it’s nearly gone already and it was more wet’n’soft than deep and crisp and even, but here’s a few shots from around Loughborough Park and Coldharbour Lane. More: Brixton …
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Blimey. I was in a *folk club* that just got busted!
This was certainly a first for me: I was in the Songbird folkie club in Dalston tonight and two cops charged on, started taking pictures and declared the evening closed …
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Perth, Scotland photos/panoramas
It’s taken me an eternity to get around to posting these photos up, but here they are! It’s a very pretty city (actually, it’s now been cruelly downgraded to a …
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A walk through Spitalfields and Brick Lane
Here’s the final part of my photo series from my west-east walk across London on Saturday. I hadn’t really explored the streets around Brick Lane and quite liked the ‘Williamsburg’ …
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A walk around Mayfair
Rubbing shoulders with the toffs! We went for a wander through Mayfair yesterday, through the decidedly upmarket Burlington Arcade (where whistling is banned) and along Saville Row. More photos here: …
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Jericho sculpture, Royal Academy
Slammed down in the middle of the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard, these two huge concrete towers provide a stark contrast to the Palladian architecture of Burlington House. I think they …
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Three London theatres
Battersea Arts Centre It’s been a luvvy month for us as we’ve been to no less than three theatre productions in a single month! Spamalot at the Palace Theatre Check …
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Brixton street photos
Here’s a short series of photos taken around Brixton this month. Maybe I’ll call it a ‘blog’ because that sounds hipper! 🙂 Brixton photo blog.
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Save Spillers!
The oldest record store in the world, Spillers Records in Cardiff, is under threat as the landlord looks set to hike the rent to unaffordable levels. It’s a great shop …
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A London walk
Ace historian Chris Roberts kindly agreed to take a gaggle of urbanites on a short walk of the Thames, with a focus on ghost tales and mysterious happenings. More photos …
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Funerals and Parisian jazz bands
Blimey. Yesterday was a bit of a strange one. I woke up in Cardiff after coming up the night before for my grandmother’s funeral. It was a crisp and sunny …
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Brixton snow
OK, it’s hardly ‘white-out’ stuff, but snow is such a rare treat in London, I still get excited by the lightest of dustings. Here’s the view from my window this …
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Magic Gardens, Philadelphia
Still clinging to life despite many eviction attempts are these incredible mosaics of South Street in Philadelphia. Photos: Magic Gardens, Philadelphia
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A London walk
Armed with my camera, I went for a lone amble around London on Saturday, starting off at Borough market, and then walking along the Southbank to the Tate Modern and …
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Offline, Prince Albert
Last night’s Offline was another heap of fun. Being January, I was expecting a quiet crowd, but they were most certainly up for it! I got to play a load …
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Farewell Dumba in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Now closed, DUMBA was a queer arts collective which played a pivotal role in the queer, riotgrrl, punk, and independent film scene in Brooklyn, New York. The venue for Le …
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FA Cup: Spurs 4 City 0 – the Pain!
FA Cup 3rd Round replay: Tottenham Hotspur 4 Cardiff 0. Yowch! That was a thumping! We were rubbish for all but the first 20 mins, but at least the Cardiff …
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Clerkenwell, Smithfield and Red Cow Yard
Save Smithfield! Pictured above is the old General Market at Smithfields Market, part of a complex of fine Victorian buildings scheduled for demolition. Despite much local campaigning and appeals from …
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Photo Blog updates
An afternoon at the British Library There’s a great exhibition at the British Library at the moment – London: A Life In Maps, featuring lots of amazing old maps. There’s …
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