1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
General Disapproval
2010-11-17
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 17 Nov 2010
Reducing waste with an infinitely reusable placard.
Keywords: England, General Disapproval, London, UK, Whitehall, protest the pope, protests
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-09-18 16:01:27
wall
2010-11-15
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 15 Nov 2010
Urban renewal is creeping east; the dome no longer sits alone amongst the industrial ruins of the Blackwall Peninsula: it is now joined by the first few apartment blocks, while the industrial ruins have been chipped up into gravel and shipped off down the river on barges. The Peninsula is in that in-between stage, where most of the old has been cleared away, but little of the new has yet arrived; empty and windswept -- except where a solitary wall provides a shelter.
Keywords: Blackwall Peninsula, East London, England, Greenwich, Isle of Dogs, London, North Greenwich, River Thames, Tower Hamlets, UK, architecture, cityscape, concrete, demolition, londonist, londonistriverproject, lpyc, rivers, skyscrapers, urban, urban decay
NIKON D90 22 mm f/10.0 0.01 sec (1/100) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-10 11:37:31
Ribblesdale
2010-11-13
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 13 Nov 2010
Keywords: Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent, Ribblesdale, UK, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales, landscape, mountains, national parks
NIKON D50 18 mm f/9.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-22 09:29:09
Glen Nevis
2010-11-11
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 11 Nov 2010
On Monday evening, killing time, by the river, in the shade of the trees, waiting for the train home.
Keywords: Glen Nevis, Highlands, Lochaber, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, landscape, mountains, roads
NIKON D90 17 mm f/9.0 0.005 sec (1/200) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-24 15:43:41
Why not?
2010-11-09
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 09 Nov 2010
A very British city streetscape, with its fake KFC kebab shop; the cheaply decorated off license with the national lottery sign blocking half the pavement; utilities works actually blocking the entire pavement in the distance, with no alternative facilities provided except a "please use footway opposite" sign; the ubiquitous parked car, lined up on the smashed up cobbling only because the council have had to install bollards, hard physical barriers to stop them parking as close to the front door of their destination as they possibly can...
Keywords: England, London, Strutton Ground, UK, Westminster, Why Not?, hairdressers, shops, signs, streetscape, streetscapes
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-21 05:32:47
Rupanco
2010-11-07
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 07 Nov 2010
Keywords: Andes, Chile, Lago Rupanco, Los lagos, Patagonia, lakes, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 35 mm f/9.0 0.001 sec (1/800) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-09-27 16:48:59
Ring Road
2010-11-05
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 05 Nov 2010
The Old Beijing is roughly rectangular, aligned to the compass points, a few km east-west and a few more north-south, slightly fatter at the southern end, where the outer city had been tacked on. Around it ran the city walls, and then the city moat.
Nowadays, the walls are mostly gone, and the moat now houses the circle line, line 2, of the underground railway. Above it runs the 2nd Ring Road, a congested ten lane motorway, the inner-most of Beijing's five beltways. Being right in the heart of the city, it has to cut carefully between ancient budhist temples and great glass office blocks, in the densest residential and business districts. It therefore has to try to serve both through traffic and local traffic, often with complicated layers of three lane + hard shoulder through-traffic carriageways separated from two lane local-traffic carriageways and then segregated bike paths, with miscellaneous official and illegal parking layers, and all the while crowds of pedestrians around the subway stops and office blocks, just trying to cross the road.
This stretch at Yonghegong felt like calm wilderness, compared to Dongzhimen, two stops down the line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Ring_Road_%28Beijing%29
Keywords: 2nd Ring Road, Beijing, China, Yonghegong, bikes, cycling, roads, smog
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-08-17 13:14:52
Sclater Street
2010-11-03
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 03 Nov 2010
Following the Victory Flashmob at New Scotland Yard this lunchtime, I continued my exploration out east -- here, the market on Sclater Street, next to the newly opened Shoreditch High Street station, on the site of the old Bishopsgate Goods Station.
Keywords: Bishopsgate Station, East End, East London, England, London, Sclater Street, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, UK, londonist, markets, railways
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-04 15:02:49
Newlands
2010-11-01
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 01 Nov 2010
Talking of cycling up mountains -- why not sponsor me to do just that? I'll be cycling up mountains to raise money for Computer Aid, who give refurbished PCs to schools, universities and hospitals -- but only if you give me enough money!
www.justgiving.com/bmcchile/
Thanks to everyone who has already done so!
Keywords: Cumbria, England, Lake District, UK, cycling, cyclists, landscape, mountains
NIKON D90 10 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2009-04-20 16:36:07
Road
2010-10-30 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 30 Oct 2010
In the highlands in May.
Posting will be a little light here for a while, while I go off to Beijing, and finish all of the hundreds of other stupid things I've taken on. There's no lack of photos taken, only a lack of processed and ready to post items -- so expect loads in the autumn.
Keywords: Highlands, Scotland, UK, landscape, mountains, roads
NIKON D90 17 mm f/10.0 0.003 sec (1/400) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-21 13:36:27
Dome
2010-10-28 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 28 Oct 2010
the shredded remains of the old industry of the Greenwich Peninsula, a couple of months ago.
Keywords: Blackwall Peninsula, Docklands, East London, England, Greenwich, London, Millennium Dome, North Greenwich, South East London, UK, architecture, derelict, industrial, sand, urban decay
NIKON D90 20 mm f/10.0 0.008 sec (1/125) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-10 11:39:51
Ribblesdale
2010-10-26 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 26 Oct 2010
perhaps in need of a little rotation...
Keywords: England, Ingleborough, Ribblesdale, UK, Yorkshire, clouds, landscape, quarries
NIKON D50 18 mm f/9.0 0.004 sec (1/250) ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-06-22 07:54:35
Okeford Hill
2010-10-24 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 24 Oct 2010
another one that sat in the "is this really worth uploading" folder for two years...
Keywords: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, Dorset Downs, England, North Dorset, Okeford Hill, UK, landscape, lanes, scarp
NIKON D50 200 mm f/5.6 0.001 sec (1/1000) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-07-11 13:54:15
Central Furniture
2010-10-22 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 22 Oct 2010
Something random from Glebe Way, West Wickham, Sunday afternoon. We had been for a picnic at Down House.
Keywords: England, Glebe Way, London, South London, UK, West Wickham, architecture, art deco
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-07-14 17:07:02
Glen Orchy
2010-10-20 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 20 Oct 2010
A lovely lightly wooded rocky river glen, a couple of weekends ago. Since
I'm now in Snowdonia, I'm experimenting with uploading netbook-processed slr
shots from the Android phone...
Sent from my commodore64
Keywords: Argyll, Glen Orchy, Highlands, Scotland, UK, West Highlands, imported, landscape
NIKON D90 10 mm f/10.0 0.017 sec (1/60) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-05-22 17:59:44
Snowdon
2010-10-18 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 18 Oct 2010
A few weeks ago. Not finding enough time to process photos -- it's slower on the little netbook...
Keywords: Snowdon, Snowdonia, UK, Wales, lakes, landscape, mountains, sheep
Unknown model unkown focal length unknown aperture unknown exposure ISO 200 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-06-29 14:05:45
Millennium Bridge
2010-10-16 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 16 Oct 2010
another long exposure shot, this one of somebody taking photographs of the people on the bridge.
do take a look at cotch dot net for the latest photo essays, won't you?
Keywords: City of London, England, London, Millennium Bridge, River Thames, Southwalk, UK, bridges, long exposure, streetscape
NIKON D90 26 mm f/13.0 0.8 ISO 100 | Taken by Joe D on 2010-04-20 17:49:01
Cherhill
2010-10-14 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
Photoblog: 14 Oct 2010
Civil War memorial on the downs.
Keywords: Cherhill, England, North Wessex Downs, UK, Wiltshire, downland, monuments, obelisks, photoshop, war memorials
NIKON D50 70 mm f/11.0 0.006 sec (1/160) ISO 400 | Taken by Joe D on 2007-01-27 13:51:50
Glenfinnan
2010-10-12 01:00:00
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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?
Embiggen on black
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
Large version - Comment at flickr.com
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
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59
