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Glenfinnan
2010-10-12 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 12 Oct 2010
From my lunchtime vantage point on Monday. I can never tell when I'm going a bit too far with deliberately wrong white balance. Being RG colourblind, and thus unaware of what the other 90% are seeing, doesn't help. What do you think? Does it look fine, or implausible?
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Keywords: Glenfinnan, Glenfinnan Viaduct, Highlands, Loch Shiel, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, bridges, lakes, landscape, lochs, mountains, railways, trains, viaducts
NIKON D90 48 mm f/9.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-24 12:23:44
Auction 2000
2010-10-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 Oct 2010
Scruffy South East London, early on Thursday morning.
Keywords: Deptford, Docklands Auction 2000, England, Evelyn Street, London, South East London, South London, UK, streetscape, urban decay
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-03 15:54:19
Snack Street
2010-10-08 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 08 Oct 2010
Off Wangfujing. Beijing is absolutely stuffed with people who are all desperately and manically driving somewhere in order to buy things and eat things.
Keywords: Beijing, China, Dongcheng, Snack Street, Wangfujing, Wangfujing Night Market, Wángfǔjǐng, markets, 王府井
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-12 07:52:45
Windermere
2010-10-06 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 06 Oct 2010
and the snow-capped Langdale Pikes on monday, while walking from Ambleside to the train station, weighed down with all the equipment. it was very difficult to find anywhere to take photos along Windermere -- so much of the shore is fenced off with big "private" signs -- a disgrace that i would make a bigger fuss about, if Windermere weren't the dullest of all the lakes.
Keywords: Cumbria, England, Lake District, Langdale Pikes, UK, Windermere, lakes, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 44 mm f/9.0 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 250 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-02-22 15:17:14
puddle
2010-10-04 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 04 Oct 2010
Alternating rain and sun this week, as demonstrated on an evening stroll down Old Street way...
Keywords: East End, East London, England, London, Old Street, Shoreditch, UK, council estates, graffiti, puddles, reflections, streetscape, tower blocks
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-29 17:52:46
Kingston Lacy
2010-10-02 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 02 Oct 2010
Keywords: Dorset, England, Kingston Lacy, UK, autumn, trees
NIKON D50 200 mm f/8.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-11-04 10:54:26
Loch Etive
2010-09-30 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 30 Sep 2010
I assume that these are the Falls of Lora, except that all of the online sources state that the falls occur on the ebb tide, when the high waters flow out of Loch Etive into the Firth of Lorne, at the narrow loch mouth here in Connel. However, this is the flood tide, flowing into the 30km long sea loch, that is creating the rapids. So I don't know whether Wikipedia is wrong, or whether these don't technically count as the Falls of Lora.
Keywords: Argyl and Bute, Argyll, Connel, Falls of Lora, Highlands, Loch Etive, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, boats, landscape, mountains, sea
NIKON D90 20 mm f/10.0 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-23 12:57:36
towers
2010-09-28 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 28 Sep 2010
stacked nd and cpl filters at tower bridge last week made for some slightly weird colours and some serious vignetting to disguise...
today i have been mostly been continuing the work overhauling cotch dot net. currently working nicely in firefox and chrome, and with just a tiny bit to do to get ie and opera looking right. do let me know what you think.
Keywords: England, London, River Thames, Tower Bridge, UK, architecture, bridges, cityscape, long exposure, rivers
NIKON D90 17 mm f/16.0 30 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-23 18:28:32
Precinct
2010-09-26 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 26 Sep 2010
This is Glover's Walk in Yeovil, Somerset. It's a short cut through from the bus station to the main shopping streets, with half a dozen small scruffy shop units along it. The Big "H" has closed down -- indeed, most of the half-dozen shops have. Acorn Records (behind, to the right), where I bought CDs during high school, appears to survive, just about.
This scene I think is synonymous with the word "Precinct": a maze of familiar faded grey 1970s low-rises. A single random, cheap, pointless flourish somewhere in the architecture. Perhaps replacement paving slabs from the late 1990s. Shops that have closed.
Yeovil was the nearest proper town when I grew up. It was an exciting and exotic destination for a five year old from North Dorset: one had to go down the jewel carrotway to get to the oval -- to the multi-storey car park if dad was driving; or else to the bus station on the 58a. Behind the camera there were escalators, with a curved perspex canopy, leading from Glover's Walk to the then new Quedam centre. There were skyscrapers up to 8 storeys high.
I took a quick detour to the town on saturday to take a few snaps for a quick photo essay that I'm preparing to explain why it beats Plymouth, Poole, Swindon and Taunton to take the top prize as worst town in the West Country.
Keywords: England, Glover's Walk, Somerset, UK, Yeovil, precincts, shopping precincts, small town Britain, urban decay
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-20 13:35:50
Beacon Hill
2010-09-24 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 24 Sep 2010
Keywords: Beacon Hill, Boston, Charles River, Longfellow Bridge, Massachusetts, New England, New State House, USA, bridges, fog, mist, rivers, skyscrapers
NIKON D50 55.0 mm f/10.0 0.004 sec (1/250) ISO 250 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-06-25 15:43:45
Dongzhimenneidajie
2010-09-22 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 22 Sep 2010
In the grey-brown smog of north-eastern central Beijing.
Beijing is currently experiencing a nasty epidemic of acute Motorism: suddenly large swathes of the population are convinced that they must drive somewhere. The streets, despite their enormity, are slow and saturated; cars make chaotic darts into gaps, and jump queues by swerving through the zebra crossings of side-streets and sprinting down the ubiquitous segregated bike paths. Bicycling, once a trademark of the city, is haemorrhaging modal share: it's no longer quick and easy to get around by bike because the segregated cycling facilities, which should be fast and safe, are full of pedestrians; and the cycling facilities are full of pedestrians because every square inch of pavement has an expensive car parked on it.
Keywords: Beijing, China, Dongzhimen, Dongzhimenneidajie, pavement parking, scruffy, smog
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-16 14:55:16
Closed
2010-09-20 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 20 Sep 2010
The vast BP petrol station on Woolwich Road, closed by Greenpeace on Tuesday, and still closed off with cones this evening.
This area doesn't have high car ownership (I can't find the exact stats -- the ONS website gets more crap every day) -- it's poor and ramshackle, unreached by redevelopment, and generally populated by people who aren't too stupid to notice that a private car is a stupid way of getting around London. But it's blighted by the south circular, Blackwall Tunnel, and various other major roads that carry people through, from the city to the Kent countryside. The area therefore has to put up with dual carriageways and great unfriendly roundabouts, lined with these cavernous filling stations, scruffy mechanics workshops, piles of tires at the tire experts and floods of suds from the hand car wash. Woolwich High Street itself is a noisy, smelly, uncrossable dual carriageway lined with metal railings and giant billboards advertising Shell Oil and some brand of car that is said to have a desirable warranty agreement.
One day the oil will stop flowing, and Woolwich will be eerily quiet.
Keywords: BP, East London, England, Greenwich (Borough), London, South East London, UK, Woolwich, car sick Britain, car sick suburbs, londonist, petrol stations
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-31 15:02:51
Estuary of the Glaslyn
2010-09-18 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 18 Sep 2010
Near Portmadog. It sat in my "stuff I haven't uploaded yet" folder for eight months, before I realised what processing it needed to make it presentable.
Keywords: Afon Glaslyn, Irish Sea, North Wales, Portmadog, Snowdonia, UK, Wales, landscape, mountains, rivers, sunbeams
NIKON D50 52 mm f/8.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-25 19:48:12
crocodile!
2010-09-16 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 16 Sep 2010
I thought the seal would have been too obvious. Not that this isn't.
Keywords: Berlin, Deutschland, East Berlin, Fernsehturm, Germany, architecture, crocodiles, sculptures, statues, transmitters
NIKON D50 18 mm f/11.0 0.02 sec (1/50) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-12-10 10:55:39
Peaks
2010-09-14 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 14 Sep 2010
from Arbor Low in the Derbyshire Dales, this afternoon.
I've started putting cameraphone pics on twitpic -- here. If you're after pretty pictures, you'll be disappointed, but if you want to see what Britain really looks like, you might find some answers...
Keywords: Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales, England, Peak District, UK, clouds, hills, landscape
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-09 13:56:44
Hanbury Street
2010-09-12 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 12 Sep 2010
Just off Brick Lane. Nothing very original from me here -- just another picture of Roa's crane.
Sorry, guys -- been neglecting everybody else's streams these past few weeks. Struggling to find the time, but will catch up soon.
Keywords: Brick Lane, East End, East London, England, Hanbury Street, London, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, UK, Whitechapel, derelict, graffiti, londonist, murals, urban decay
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-05 13:17:52
The Road
2010-09-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 Sep 2010
cycling from Inverness to Fort Augustus the other day.
Keywords: Highlands, Scotland, UK, landscape, roads
NIKON D90 55 mm f/9.0 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-21 13:01:07
Hutong
2010-09-08 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 08 Sep 2010
The old densely packed low-rise residential areas of Beijing -- this one just south of Yonghegong in the north-east of the city centre. These areas are ~.5km by .5km square labyrinths of singe-lane streets and mainly single-story buildings of various ages and construction, with little alleys and courtyards, and occasional tall temples or blocks of flats. Separating these .5km squares are the great north-south and east-went boulevards, themselves increasingly lined with tall apartment blocks, hotels, and glass office towers, slowly creeping deeper in amongst the hutongs. China is experiencing a backlash against the clearing of hutongs for development of things like offices, ever wider highways, and the 2008 Olympics, in part because the residents were thrown out of their ancestral homes with minimal compensation and help relocating.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutong
www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/world/asia/27china.html
knol.google.com/k/preservation-of-beijing-s-hutongs
Keywords: Beijing, China, Yonghegong, hutongs, motorbikes, streetscape, streetscapes
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-15 06:21:36
Battersea moonrise
2010-09-06 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 06 Sep 2010
from Chelsea bridge, returning from Science Museum Lates last night.
Did I mention my Battersea Power Station rant already? Perhaps I did, once or twice...
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Keywords: Battersea, Battersea Power Station, Chelsea, England, London, UK, Wandsworth, West London, architecture, bridges, londonist, moon, night, power stations, railways, reflections
NIKON D90 10 mm f/13.0 30 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-28 21:02:20
Derwent Water
2010-08-06 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 06 Aug 2010
seemed to me that i couldn't just leave this lying around in the "stuff that i could perhaps upload to flickr" folder forever.
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you guys! the latest weekend photo essay is up at cotch dot net -- this week it's part 2 of a 2 part journey around south east london...
Keywords: Cumbria, Derwent Water, England, Jaws of Borrowdale, Lake District, UK, art, lakes, landscape, morning, mountains
NIKON D90 46 mm f/10.0 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-19 07:27:31
That.
2010-08-03 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 03 Aug 2010
a random combination of objects that inexplicably appealed. on Blackwall Tunnel road, at the weekend.
Keywords: Docklands, East London, England, London, North Greenwich, South East London, Tunnel Road, UK, cars, gasometers, londonist, signs
NIKON D90 26 mm f/18.0 0.077 sec (1/13) ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-10 11:22:57
Mam Tor
2010-07-31 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 31 Jul 2010
From a walk yesterday, resulting in this short photo essay: Landslide victory.
Since I'm still away, these were all edited with Raw Studio and gIMP on a 9" eeepc. Not so easy.
Keywords: Derbyshire, England, High Peak, Hope Valley, Mam Tor, Peak District, UK, abandoned, derelict, landscape, landslides
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-12 11:26:24
The Little Crown
2010-07-28 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 28 Jul 2010
New Cross road, on sunday evening. I feel a "scruffy pubs of South East London" set coming on.
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Keywords: Deptford, England, London, New Cross, New Cross Road, South East London, South London, UK, londonist, pubs
NIKON D90 17 mm f/8.0 0.017 sec (1/60) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-11 17:29:26
Glenfinnan
2010-07-25 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 25 Jul 2010
Sunny days a couple of weeks ago.
Keywords: Glenfinnan, Glenfinnan Monument, Highlands, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, imported, lakes, landscape, lochs
NIKON D90 17 mm f/9.0 0.003 sec (1/320) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-24 13:17:48
sand
2010-07-22 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 22 Jul 2010
and gravel, behind the thames path at north greenwich this morning. first time i've gone out for a photo walk with a circular polariser in about a year...
Keywords: East London, England, Greenwich, London, North Greenwich, UK, cranes, docks, gravel, industrial, londonist, londonistriverproject, sand
NIKON D90 38 mm f/10.0 0.013 sec (1/80) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-10 11:31:06
figure
2010-07-19 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 19 Jul 2010
at the underpass next to mudchute dlr and millwall dock, isle of dogs.
these spring evening walks around south east london are the subject of the latest weekend mini photo essay -- Neighbourhood (part 1). do take a look, if you're not already subscribed!
Keywords: Docklands, East London, England, Isle of Dogs, London, Millwall, UK, graffiti, londonist, lpyc, silhouettes, streetscape
NIKON D90 31 mm f/10.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-11 18:26:45
Windermere
2010-07-16 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 16 Jul 2010
not the best bit of the lakes, but occasionally you stumble upon something worth shooting...
guys! don't forget to check cotch dot net for the latest little photo story!
Keywords: Cumbria, England, Lake District, Langdale Pikes, UK, Windermere, abandoned, lakes, landscape, machinery, mountains, rusty, snow
NIKON D90 30 mm f/9.0 0.002 sec (1/500) ISO 250 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-02-22 15:07:10
St Paul's
2010-07-13 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 13 Jul 2010
Standing out standing still between the tides of people and flows of clouds on the wobbly bridge. I got an absurdly cheap NDx8 filter on ebay. I mean, £5, international postage inclusive. I assumed that it would be crap but that at that price, it might be worth it for a few deliberately crap "arty" pictures. Had a play with it on the bridge on the way home...
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more pictures of the bridge
Keywords: England, London, Millennium Bridge, River Thames, St Paul's Cathedral, TWTME, UK, bridges, bw, londonist, long exposure, monochrome, red filter, streetscape
NIKON D90 26 mm f/20.0 1.6 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-20 17:52:34
Kilchurn Castle
2010-07-10 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 10 Jul 2010
Reflected in Loch Awe on Sunday morning. For those that missed it on twitter I spent a four day weekend cycling around the Highlands, trying to cram in as many of the to-go-list items as I could into my first visit to the region!
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Keywords: Argyl and Bute, Argyll, Glenorchy, Highlands, Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, castles, lakes, landscape, lochs, lpyc, mountains, reflections, ruins, water
NIKON D90 10 mm f/8.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-23 09:12:35
Boston skyline
2010-06-30 01:00:00
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Photoblog: 30 Jun 2010
Ran out of current stuff to post, really ought to get everything off the camera. This is the Boston skyline from the East Piers Park back in June. Photoshop channel mixer: darken blues, lighten reds and greens, desaturate.
Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, Boston, Boston Harbour, Boston skyline, Massachusetts, New England, USA, boats, bw, cityscape, monochrome, redfilter, sea, skyline, skyscrapers, tower blocks
NIKON D50 18 mm f/3.5 0.002 sec (1/640) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-06-27 10:21:49
Derelict house
2010-06-20 01:00:00
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OK, I'm done updating for today. Now go subscribe to my photoblog so you don't have to see all the crap I post to the photostream.
Keywords: Cincinnati, Clifton Heights, Ohio, USA, cleanup, derelict
FinePix A310 5.7 mm f/2.8 0.002 sec (1/420) ISO 160 | Taken by Joe D on 2006-05-11 19:18:30
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