Photography

Earls Court Exhibition Centre is no more

West Brompton cemetery

Earls Court exhibition centre is now gone, the concrete stadium which proudly hosted spectaculars ranging from The Royal Tournament and the London Boat Show to the original live shows of Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall”. Dust is to dust but as yet there is no monument. Meanwhile, the new blocks are beginning to tower over Brompton Cemetery, the exhibition centre’s peaceful neighbour.
Earls Court as it was...

Penrith castle, Cumbria

Day trip to Penrith and Keswick, sunshine and heavy showers weather with the heavy showers merging towards the end of the day to give the “Cumbrian Monsoon” effect. Photographically, the light varies between moments of clear brilliant sunshine and almost monochrome, no colour in either the rain-drenched slate roofs or the rain-laden clouds.
My photo shows the often grim ruins of Penrith castle basking for just a moment in full colour.

 

“Fings ain’t what they used to be…”

Two fisherman on the beach below Ovingdean Cliff in Sussex looking at Brighton's i360 “vertical pier” and the first of the new blocks at Brighton Marina.

Rowan tree on a Fulham street

This is autumn in the city: a Rowan tree laden with berries on the street on a bright autumn morning in Fulham, the strong Westerly breeze blowing away the clouds and heralding the return of the many planes tracking down over London to land at Heathrow airport. Apart from the view of the tree on the street outside the window, the architecture of those flats is definitely not inspirational but count on spending more than a quarter of a million pounds if you want to try to buy one. Note: Rowan berries are poisonous.

Rowing eight on the Thames at Hammersmith

Eight oarsmen rowing upstream at speed on the River Thames at Hammersmith Reach in West London, just down river from Hammersmith Bridge. Several rowers are wearing kit identified as Imperial College, London. The tide is still coming in but this is less than an hour before High Water. An eight at full speed is a wonderful sight, the oars pulling as one, the sleek boat flitting over the water, the swoosh sound of the oars slicing in to the water surmounted by the Cox calling the stroke.