leaf stain: camberwell

bottle city: peckham

bricks: peckham

Edgeware station

Edgeware station

outside Brixton police station

Brixton

Brixton

some photos taken during ramblings along the canal in the countryside, they're actually relfections of things in the water, flipped upside down and photoshopped ... they look like prints right? kind of.

red and yellow and pink and green!

I'll admit that one of my guilty pleasures; when there really is nothing else to do, is reading the daily mail online. Sometimes an 'article' about some zee list celebrity and their battle with the bulge, or Kate Middleton's possible, maybe not, yes definately wedding dress is all I need to stave off gossip cravings ... and occasionally they dish up something a little more interesting .... like these tulip fields in The Netherlands:

yummy.

seeds

gravel

Roundway, Devizes, Wiltshire

i found this giant book of beaches in the library ..

.. called 'On the Beach' by Richard Misrach.

This book is huge and utterly amazing!
I was just oohing and ahhing as I flipped (or heaved) the approx A2 pages to reveal image after image of blue sea, sand and teeny tiny people.
I don't quite know what it is that makes them so interesting.
I guess I've always had a thing for the sea, it's something that I'm both fascinated by and fearful of in a slimy, fishy sort of way.
The success of these images is simply the beauty of people dotted on a beach, the colours of their bathing costumes and towels against the sand, or the pin-prick of a person in a mass of lazy blue sea or sprawled on dimpled sand, presumably after a tiering swim (and hopefully not dead or a victim of a shark attack.)
For me they conjure up feelings of being on holiday, but they also make me feel very small.

These small images on my blog really don't do them justice! Find this book or buy this book! (for me)

i forgot a drill

Chipped paint - Aldgate East Station

Writing on the floor - Brixton

Christmas Card

Found: Attic, 2009

Photo: Myself, Daniel & Panda, Japan 1999

Birthday Card: Elphick Designs Ltd. 1986

Found: Attic, 2009

Photo: On the ferry from Dover to Calais, 2002

Photo: disposable camera, Seoul, Korea, 2008

Newspaper clipping: Times, Nov, 2010

Newspaper clipping: Times, Nov, 2010

Photo: disposable camera, Dartmouth, 2008