Photography
Fort Queyras and Mont Visio (3841 m.)
Driving up the Valley of the Durance in Provence, the river bed is alight with the autumn colours on all the vegetation, the ash and silver birch trees put on a particularly vivid show. Travelling upstream towards the mountains, I get the impression of moving though the stages of autumn as the colours slowly go darker to late autumn as the kilometres pass this trip’s hired Clio.
The snow-covered granite mountains, Alps and Écrins, gradually come in to view; now the super-white brilliance of the snow left by this October’s storms steals the show, topping off the visual treat of the Provence topography.
Low Water on the Thames at Palace Wharf, Fulham
The Palace Wharf warehouse bears the date 1907, but the pier has been derelict since the 1970s.
Templated architecture and repetitive patterns in “Metro-Land” at the School of Media, Arts and Design of The Uni of Westminster's Northwick Park site.
Menton on the French Riviera, now the frontier town between France and Italy.
Sheep in the shade of the trees of The Tumulus on London’s Hampstead Heath, within sight of the city. The sheep are here for a week as an experiment, which may lead to more sheep and for longer. Apparently the first time there have been sheep on this traditional grazing land for more than fifty years. Their chosen location is a bit of a photographic challenge, as I wanted to show both the sheep and the city. Elsewhere on Parliament Hill Fields and Hampstead Heath, the classic views of the City of London remain but with ever more skyscrapers each time I go to look.
