You’ve got to give him points for effort here. A unicycling, guitar playing busker wearing rabbit ears sings it out loud outside KFC in central Brixton.
Brixton photos: a unicycling busker, street architecture and coffee Read More
Three photos for you from my wander around Brixton today. The first is of the Guyanese roti caravan on Brixton Station Road, which has proved a hit on the urban75 …
Brixton: Guyana Roti, tree trousers and a little envelope Read More
Covent Garden is a ruddy weird place to be on on a busy Saturday afternoon. To get to the market, you have to pass rows of bizarrely painted ‘human statues’ …
Covent Garden photos: market views and curious street artists Read More
Anyone looking to travel to/from Brixton tune today, be advised: the tube station is only open for topping up Oyster cards and there are no tube trains running.
Tube strike: no Brixton tube today (7/09/10) Read More
Apologies for the shonky photos – trying to capture the Battle of Britain flypast over St Paul’s reminded me of just how small the World War 2 aircraft were – …
Battle of Britain flypast as London remembers the Blitz Read More
I spent a pleasant afternoon at Brockwell park on Sunday at the Urban Green Fair, hanging out and chatting to friends.
Urban Green Fair photos, Brockwell Park, south London, 2010 Read More
For Brixton’s coffee cognoscenti and caffeine-quaffing connoisseurs of the coffee bean, there’s one truly unmissable place on London’s cafe map, and that’s Federation Coffee.
Federation Coffee, Brixton – London’s finest coffee? Read More
Is it just me, but does this 2.30am scene look rather odd? It’s like a low, semi-illuminated white cloud has descended over central London. The pictures don’t really do the …
A curious night sky over London Read More
Most people may deem them to be as cool as a heatwave on Planet Mercury, but I rather like Morris dancers – I mean, they drink a lot, dance about …
Morris dancing on the Southbank – 110 photos! Read More
Six views from my wander around central London on Saturday. Above is Centre Point, photographed against a late summer sky.
London: Waterloo Bridge, Centre Point and road works Read More
One of the best things about living in Brixton is that there’s always something interesting going on, or a scene to catch the eye – like this fabulously named van …
Brixton scenes: Rasta van, Mr Biggs, truck graffiti and Grosvenor banjos Read More
Located on the main line out of London from Liverpool Street, Coborn Road station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1865.
Coborn Road railway station: a long abandoned East London station Read More
It’s not often we get invited to a press event at a traditional British ‘greasy spoon’ cafe, but when the offer of a free breakfast at the Polo Bar cafe …
Breakfast at the Polo Bar 24 hour cafe, Liverpool Street, London Read More
On Saturday we caught the tube to Mile End for a six mile walk through east London to check out progress on the 2012 Olympic site. It’s a lovely walk …
Olympic stadium walk – Mile End to Victoria Park and Bow along the canal Read More
I love it when we stumble across a fine coffee in an unlikely place, and we definitely came up trumps on Saturday when we visited the Counter cafe in east …
The Counter cafe, Hackney Wick, E3 – another great London coffee house Read More
I like rain (although not at festivals!), so grabbed a few photos on my Lumix LX3 compact camera when I wandered around town on a wet summer afternoon in August.
Umbrellas in London: a rainy summer afternoon in the capital Read More
Built on an old ballast tip, the amusement park at Coney Beach in Porthcawl, south Wales, dates back to to April 1920, when its first attraction arrived in the shape …
Coney Beach amusement park, south Wales: 90 years old Read More
I’ve just posted up 180 photos from last weekend’s fabulous Beautiful Days festival in Devon. We had a great time, but my run of three festivals in three weekends is …
Beautiful Days festival 2010 – photos Read More
Caffeine freaks are getting very spoilt in Brixton, with another independent coffee shop opening up in SW9 this week.
The Goodbench – another independent Brixton coffee bar opens! Read More
Just got back from the excellent Beautiful Days festival in Devon after a weekend of drinking, dancing, falling over and more.
Levellers at Beautiful Days festival Read More
Here’s the final instalment of photos from our fab weekend at Vintage at Goodwood festival in Sussex. I really hadn’t expected it to be as good as it was – …
Sunday at Vintage at Goodwood – photos from the festival Read More
There was so much interesting stuff going on at Vintage at Goodwood that I ended up taking hundreds of photos. I’ve just posted up around 130 of the better snaps …
Vintage at Goodwood – photos from Saturday’s events Read More
I’m slowly working my way through a vast pile of photos from the weekend – here’s some from Friday at the Vintage at Goodwood festival.
Vintage at Goodwood- Friday photos Read More
Against all my cynical expectations, Vintage in Goodwood proved a fantastic weekend – we all had a heap of fun!
Vintage in Goodwood festival proves a monster hit! Read More
We had anther magnificent time at the Endorse It Festival last weekend. Here’s a few photos – click on the links at the bottom to see the whole photo feature.
Endorse It festival 2010 – photos galore! Read More
Apologies for copying this article over from my Wirefresh tech blog, but I’ve been asked a fair bit about what effects I’ve been using on some of my recent uploads, …
I’m loving the HTC Desire and Android Vignette app combo! Read More
Dug up from my photo archives is this series of photos of the faded seaside town of Coney Island, Brooklyn, which I visited in 1986 and 1999. I was terrified …
Coney Island archive photos: 1986 and 1999 Read More
We’ve just been treated to a stunning scene over south London, with a beautiful rainbow filling the skies.
A stunning rainbow over Crystal Palace, south London Read More
Greenwich is stuffed full of history, has a good market, ace pubs, loads of interesting shops and a fantastic park with great views making it a great cheap day out …
Greenwich photos, south London Read More
I love walking through tunnels, so here’s a few photos of my wander through the 1902 foot tunnel under the Thames. Running from Greenwich to the Isle of Dogs, the …
A walk through the Greenwich foot tunnel Read More