Photography
Nestling in the trees on the bank above the north bank of the meandering river Eden at Carlisle is the Institute of the Arts, the Brampton Road Campus for the University of Cumbria. The reflections of the trees in the glass-fronted atrium lead the eye in sections upwards via the continuity of the main branches from the banality of academic facilities within, a metaphor for the aspirations of arts education.
I've reworked this image since I originally posted it to idealise the geometry.
Ice in the fountains in Trafagar Square despite the afternoon sun this chilly January day. It's become unusual that winter gets this cold and for this long in Central London.
The very British tradition of feeding the swans, geese, ducks and pigeons at the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London.
Just three chimneys left in the row of terraced houses at Birling Gap, Sussex. Sea erosion has claimed a lot more of the white chalk cliffs between Brighton, Beachy Head and Eastbourne in the past few years. Once there were a dozen dwellings in this terrace row, houses for the coastguards; the first was demolished in 1972; erosion has been continuing since to claim about a metre of cliff per year. The chalk washes away but the flints remain on the beach, rounded by the wave action.
The apparently off-the-cliff viewpoint of my photo, ten metres up from the beach and ten metres out from the cliff, is not because I have received a drone for Christmas but simply the view from the handy steel staircase accessing down to the beach; the latest in a number of such conveniences installed by the National Trust, the previous ones having been washed away by storms.
