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Tunnel 228
2009-06-04 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 04 Jun 2009
The Old Vic / Punchdrunk Metropolis in the space beneath Waterloo Station.
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Keywords: England, London, Tunnel-228, UK, Waterloo Station, art
NIKON D90 18 mm f/3.5 0.125 sec (1/8) ISO 3200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-05-25 16:28:42
Hive Beach
2009-06-03 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 03 Jun 2009
I wish I'd composed this differently now -- from further back, with a longer angle. Oh well. Must learn to compose in my head rather than on a computer screen, I guess.
Keywords: 123, Burton Bradstock, Chesil Beach, Dorset, England, English Channel, Golden Cap, Hive Beach, Jurassic Coast, UK, West Dorset, beaches, fishermen, landscape, sea, sunset
NIKON D90 65 mm f/10.0 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-11 18:34:38
fallen angel
2009-06-02 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 02 Jun 2009
exhibition by paul fryer at holy trinity, marylebone, in october.
Keywords: Paul Fryer, art, let there be more light
NIKON D50 10 mm f/4.0 0.167 sec (1/6) ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-10-17 11:59:35
CWS
2009-06-01 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 01 Jun 2009
Old flour mills on Avonmouth Docks in Bristol. These docks were constructed on the Bristol Channel in the early 20th century, when boats grew too large to navigate the three miles of meandering Avon estuary into Bristol Harbour.
Keywords: Avonmouth, Avonmouth Docks, Bristol, CWS, England, UK, derelict, industrial
NIKON D50 55 mm f/8.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-10 17:02:38
gulls!
2009-05-16 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 16 May 2009
at Croyde two years ago...
Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, Bristol Channel, Croyde, Devon, England, North Devon, UK, animals, beaches, birds, sea, seagulls
NIKON D50 200 mm f/8.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-04-01 07:43:28
star stuff
2009-05-14 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 14 May 2009
You need to view it large on black. It's badly stiched, I know...
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On the iPlayer on Thursday I stumbled upon In Search of England's Green and Pleasant Land. I guess it's another one of those BBC formats where somebody draws up a list and then D-list “TV personalities” are drafted in to compete in another demoralising popularity contest which is supposed to somehow reflect something about the list and the items on it. There'd be votes involved, if the BBC were still allowed to do them. You know the type of programme I mean. Perhaps there'll be a book at the end of it.
Anyway, this time the subject is the English regions, and the episode I watched was Stuart Maconie campaigning on behalf of the Lake District. He claimed that “the Victorians” (probably that same species of Victorian that thought piano legs were too sexually suggestive) had to view the landscapes of the Cumbrian Fells via a small circular mirror, because the uncropped vistas of untamable moors would have been just too massive and wild for them to handle.
What a thoroughly appallingly depressing idea: that somebody might willfully throw away the opportunity to truly know and enjoy England's greatest spectacle just because the sight might initially lie outside of their comfort zone. They would prefer to see the fells, pikes, crags, spies, heads, riggs, moors, and jaws with a neat man-made frame around them. We can not conquer them, so we will turn our backs and pretend that they are just a painted picture.
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One of the many quotable facts from the great classic of factual broadcasting, Cosmos – written and presented by the genuine personality and genuine expert Carl Sagan – is that “we are made of star stuff.” The heavy elements that make the formation of planets and the evolution of life possible are produced by nuclear fusion reactions inside stars. For the incomprehensibly long period of 15 billion years, since it was “created” by an initial expansion of energy condensing into matter, our universe – “the” universe – has fostered the evolution of heavy elements in its seventy sextillian nuclear reactors. At 4.57 billion years ago, our sun – “the” sun – formed from the great gaseous remnants of previous suns – countless ancestral yet alien solar systems that had already lived out their full lives. A few tens of millions of years later, our Earth – “the” Earth – was in place orbiting that sun, and somewhen, perhaps half a billion or a billion years after that, life – life that, by cycling through natural laws and processes, has since evolved and diversified into many millions of fantastically exquisite different species – had arisen on that earth.
A mere four or five million years ago – one one-thousandth of the duration of that earth's existence – a particular branch of that earth's tree of life, a branch that considers itself special, separated from what is now its nearest extant neighbour. During those four million years, the traits that this species thinks set it apart – above – its neighbours were stumbled upon by evolution. That species found itself in possession of a large brain and intellect, and created a culture and shared memory, recording the species' own unique perspective on the most recent one one-millionth of the history of its tiny speck of the universe. Its history of developments in technology, philosophy, and civilisation. Of petty feuds and passing love affairs, kings and peasants, heroes and villains. Of coming to see and to know and to begin to enjoy its cosmic landscape.
Individuals of that species alive today – at least, the affluent ones – are privileged to experience around six one-billionths of their universe's history so far. Their lungs will take one billion breaths, exchanging a million molecules of star stuff each time. They will breath the same dust of the stars that before them was breathed by their tree-dwelling ancestors and great reptilian monsters on ancient continents; by their friends and their enemies, and by their own personal heroes. They will drink star stuff that rained from acid skies on an infant planet, and lapped at the shores of lakes of primordial soup; that carried great voyages of discovery, and was blessed by countless priests. In the blink of an eye they get to learn, to love, and to see the mountains, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
And if them mountains look frightening at first, they just better get used to them. The view from the top is more beautiful than anything a man could ever hope to paint and mount in a frame.
Keywords: Carl Sagan, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, UK, lakes, mountains, rants, reflections, stars
NIKON D90 10 mm f/4.0 30 ISO 640 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 21:05:12
Derwent Water
2009-05-12 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 12 May 2009
I do hope you like Derwent Water, because I fear there may be rather a lot of it about to fill the stream...
I think I've seen that same branch on many a flickr stream, and yes, I did take part in the ritual of repositioning it for a shot...
Keywords: 123, 123L, 123M, 2for2, Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Lake District, NA, PiF, TWTME, UK, lakes, landscape, lpyc, mountains, reflections
NIKON D90 24 mm f/10.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 06:21:28
misty vale
2009-05-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 May 2009
from way back...
Keywords: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England, Stalbridge, UK, landscape, sunrise
NIKON D50 130 mm f/8.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-12-30 08:20:03
Croyde
2009-05-08 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 08 May 2009
From April last year.
Keywords: Croyde, Croyde Bay, Devon, England, North Devon, UK, beaches, dunes
NIKON D50 80 mm f/10.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-30 18:06:33
Whitehall
2009-05-07 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 07 May 2009
Galleries: London
A long exposure with a couple of busses going past. A police car came past making a big attention seeking fuss about something or other, so I grabbed everything to move to safety (the number of police cars I've seen firmly planted in the bollards and railings on Whitehall on my evening commutes...) giving a few additional weird effects here and there...
The headlights blew out completely, so an area around them merges into a -2 exposure from the raw file.
Keywords: England, London, Palace of Westminster, UK, Whitehall, busses, equestrian statues, londonist, long exposure, night, statues, streetscape
NIKON D50 60 mm f/13.0 8 ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-10 21:06:30
Swyre Head
2009-05-06 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 06 May 2009
Galleries: Dorset > Jurassic Coast
from Eldon Seat. cliffs of Kimmeridge in the distance.
Keywords: 123L, 2for2, A1F1, Dorset, England, English Channel, Jurassic Coast, Kimmeridge, P1F1, Purbeck, Swyre Head, TWTME, UK, landscape, lpyc
NIKON D50 18 mm f/9.0 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-01-27 15:16:56
Battersea Power Station
2009-05-05 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 05 May 2009
The open day.
Keywords: Battersea, Battersea Power Station, England, London, Nine Elms, UK, Wandsworth, West London, derelict, londonist
NIKON D50 120 mm 6643856/1000000 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-08-23 15:11:12
boat!
2009-05-03 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 03 May 2009
Galleries: London
next to the dome...
Keywords: 2for2, Docklands, East London, England, London, North Greenwich, River Thames, UK, boats
NIKON D90 10 mm f/8.0 0.001 sec (1/800) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-22 16:14:50
Dog on boat
2009-05-01 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 01 May 2009
From May or June 2004, when I was just getting into photography by going for evening walks around the harbour.
Keywords: Bristol, England, Floating Harbour, Redcliffe, Redcliffe Wharf, UK, animals, boats, cleanup, dogs
FinePixA204 6 mm 360/100 0.003 sec (1/340) ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2004-01-01 00:10:46
barges
2009-04-29 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 29 Apr 2009
Galleries: London
on the river yesterday morning.
Keywords: Charing Cross Station, England, London, River Thames, UK, Westminster Bridge, architecture, barges, boats, briges, cityscape, rivers
NIKON D90 82 mm f/9.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-18 09:11:57
Kimmeridge
2009-04-27 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 27 Apr 2009
Another from February.
Keywords: Dorset, England, English Channel, Isle of Purbeck, Jurassic Coast, Kimmeridge, Purbeck, UK, bw, landscape, long exposure, monochrome, sea
NIKON D50 18 mm 6918863/1000000 30 sec (30) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-01-27 17:29:19
barrier
2009-04-25 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 25 Apr 2009
Galleries: London
Keywords: Canary Wharf, Docklands, East London, England, London, River Thames, Thames Barrier, Thames Estuary, UK, londonist, rivers
NIKON D90 80 mm f/8.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-03-22 16:40:33
Crook Gill
2009-04-23 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 23 Apr 2009
Keywords: Crook Gill, England, Pen-y-ghent, UK, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales, landscape, national parks, patchwork, private, sheep
NIKON D50 112 mm f/7.1 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-22 08:31:24
Millennium Square
2009-04-21 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 21 Apr 2009
The new development reflected in the paddling pool.
Keywords: At-Bristol, Bristol, England, Millennium Square, UK, architecture, reflections, water
NIKON D50 18 mm f/8.0 0.04 sec (1/25) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-12-02 16:24:02
edinburgh
2009-04-19 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 19 Apr 2009
Galleries: Edinburgh
dark towers and light mountains.
sorry, nothing new to offer at the moment...
Keywords: Edinburgh, Firth of Forth, North Sea, Scotland, UK, cityscape, sea
NIKON D50 200 mm f/8.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-12-01 11:26:28
Fawley
2009-04-17 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 17 Apr 2009
Power station and oil refinery on Southampton Water.
Keywords: England, English Channel, Fawley, Hampshire, Solent, Southampton, Southampton Water, UK, chimneys, industrial, power stations, silhouettes, sunset
NIKON D50 200 mm f/8.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-08-25 19:04:47
stairs!
2009-04-16 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 16 Apr 2009
in the national museum of scotland's extension...
Keywords: 123, 123A, 321, Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, Scotland, TWTME, UK, bw, monochrome
NIKON D50 10 mm f/4.0 0.1 sec (1/10) ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-12-02 11:35:54
Kilve
2009-04-15 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 15 Apr 2009
Keywords: England, Kilve, Kilve Church, Somerset, UK, West Somerset, architecture, churches
NIKON D50 18 mm 6643856/1000000 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-04-05 16:15:34
Edinburgh
2009-04-13 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 13 Apr 2009
Galleries: Edinburgh
sorting through a few months worth of unprocessed stuff...
Keywords: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, churches, cityscape, silhouettes, skyline, sunset
NIKON D50 170 mm f/8.0 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-12-01 14:29:37
Lambeth Town Hall
2009-04-11 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 11 Apr 2009
Galleries: London
in the fog a few weeks ago...
The Edwardian Baroque Lambeth Borough Hall was constructed in 1908, and raised to three stories in 1938. The clock tower is 134 ft (41m).
Keywords: 123, 123A, 123C, 2for2, A1F1, Brixton, England, Lambeth Town Hall, London, P1F1, PiF, South London, TWTME, UK, fog, londonist, mist, night, streetscape
NIKON D50 34 mm f/4.2 0.025 sec (1/40) ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-01-08 21:21:39
Castlerigg
2009-04-09 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 09 Apr 2009
Keywords: Castlerigg, Cumbria, England, Lake District, Sigma 10-20, UK, landscape
NIKON D50 18 mm f/11.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-06-15 18:31:07
West Norwood
2009-04-07 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 07 Apr 2009
Galleries: London
Keywords: England, Lambeth (Borough), London, South London, UK, West Norwood, architecture, bw, cemeteries, infrared, monochrome
NIKON D50 18 mm 6643856/1000000 0.6 sec (3/5) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-07-12 16:04:43
castle + crane
2009-04-05 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 05 Apr 2009
Galleries: Edinburgh
jupiter + venus.
taken resting on wall -- i forgot to bring tripod :(
Keywords: Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, UK, cityscape, night, sunset
NIKON D50 18 mm f/3.5 0.25 sec (1/4) ISO 800 | Taken by Joe D on 2008-11-30 16:59:16
ritzy
2009-04-03 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 03 Apr 2009
Galleries: London
not been for ages...
Keywords: Brixton, England, Lambeth, London, Ritzy, South London, UK, architecture, bw, fog, londonist, monochrome, night, streetscape
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-01-11 05:37:22
Beer Church
2009-04-01 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 01 Apr 2009
Britain has the most fantastic place names. My favourite address is that if a friend who lived in a street named Twindle Beer in Chudleigh, Devon. I seem to recall it was an amusing house name as well, but I've forgotten it.
This is a different Beer, about 20 miles east, on the Jurassic Coast. Taken while waiting for the fish & chips to cook in the shop behind the camera.
Keywords: Beer, Beer Church, Devon, East Devon, England, UK, architecture, churches, flowers
NIKON D50 18 mm f/9.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-03-29 17:06:03
Blackfriars Bridge
2009-03-30 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 30 Mar 2009
Keywords: 30 St Mary Axe, Blackfriars Bridge, City of London, England, Lloyds, London, River Thames, Swis Re Tower, Tower 42, UK, architecture, bridges, cityscape
NIKON D50 95 mm f/8.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-09-20 16:21:13
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