Buttercups in Kensington Gardens
Buttercups
23 06 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: buttercups, Kensington Gardens, photo, Photography, Spring flowers
Categories : Flower, London, UK
Pedestrian subway, South Kensington
23 06 2009Photos from inside the pedestrian subway linking South Kensington tube station and the National History and V&A museums
South Kensington pedestrian subway
Victorian skylight
South Kensington pedestrian subway
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Tags: London museums, London subway, pedestrian subway, photo, photographic study, Photography, South Kensington, Victorian infrastructure, Vistorian engineering
Categories : Cityscape, Europe, London, UK
Ship wreck
18 06 2009More photos from my great-grandfather’s WWI archive … this time a couple of the ‘dieing’ ships that he obtained and took photographs of while he was on active service.
SS City of Birmingham, torpedoed on Nov 27, 1916
The SS City of Birmingham sank in the Mediterranean. This photo was taken by an unknown seaman who survived the Birmingham’s sinking and managed to photograph the ship going down. He was picked up alone on a raft making his way to shore, and my great-grandfather developed his photos for him, and made a copy of this one for his own records.
The German 'Emden', ashore on the Cocos Islands
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Tags: Emden, photo, Photography, RNS, sinking ships, SS City of Birmingham, WWI
Categories : Europe
Family archive
18 06 2009Once you look at these photos it’ll be pretty obvious that I didn’t take them myself. However, I can lay some sort of claim to them, after a fashion, because my great-grandfather (also a very keen amateur photographer) took them during his WWI service with the British merchant navy. I was flicking through the few photos of his that I have to hand (his overall archive is huge, and only partly digitised so far), and I thought I’d share a some of them.
This series comprises of some of the photos taken during my great-grandfather’s training and service in the Kite Balloon section of the Royal Naval Air Service – both in London and at sea.
Balloon training, Hurlingham, S-W London
Launching a weather balloon from the ship deck
Balloon, mid-burst
Holding on to the ripped balloon
Balloon launch
Balloon - underbelly and basket
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Tags: Hurlingham, Kite balloon, photo, photographic study, Photography, RNAS, Royal Naval Air Service, WWI
Categories : Europe, London, UK
Ruins of Tantallon Castle
14 06 2009The ruins of medieval Tantallon are magestic in their decay, and despite the ravages of both war and time the castle still commands the coast of the Firth of Forth at North Berwick. For those interested, Historic Scotland has more information on the history of the castle.
View east from Tantallon Castle
Intruder's silhouette
View to Bass Rock from Tantallon Castle
Tantallon Castle and Bass Rock
Central tower, Tantallon
Defenses, and view to the east
Ruined defensive wall, Tantallon
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Tags: East Lothian, Edinburgh, North Berwick, photo, photographic study, Photography, Ruined castle, Scotland, Spring, Tantallon Castle
Categories : Buildings, Edinburgh, Europe, Landscape, Scotland, UK
Seascape at Dunbar
13 06 2009A glorious afternoon at Dunbar, on the coast of the Firth of Forth (slightly east of Edinburgh)
view of the coast at Dunbar
Exploration by photography
View at Dunbar
Panorama from Dunbar
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Tags: Dunbar, Edinburgh, Firth of Forth, Landscape, photo, photographic study, Photography, Scotland, sea, Spring
Categories : Beach, Edinburgh, Europe, Landscape, Scotland, UK
Dust bath
12 06 2009
Dust bath
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Tags: photo, Photography, Scotland, sparrow, Spring, UK
Categories : Europe, Scotland, UK
Edinburgh Castle
7 06 2009We made the trip up to Edinburgh for the second of the May long weekends to visit friends (our first trip there in over a year), and while there took advantage of the weather to finally explore the lovely and atmospheric Edinburgh Castle …
St Andrews Cross over the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle - barracks
Internal arch of St Catherine's Chapel
View across the city, towards Arthur's Seat
Halfmoon battery, Edinburgh Castle
Chapel of the Scottish National War Memorial
Internal doorway in the garden, Edinburgh Castle
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Tags: blue sky, Castle on hilltop, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, photo, photographic study, Photography, Scotland, Spring, St Andrews Cross
Categories : Buildings, Cityscape, Edinburgh, Europe, Memorial, Scotland, UK
Photobook published
22 05 2009One of the projects that I’ve been working on recently is to create something with and from my photographs – I’ve found it’s all very well to have a hard drive full of photos, but there’s only so many you can view on screen at once 
So I’ve taken to creating some photo books along various themes that my photos follow – and the first one that I’m ‘ready’ to annouce is of the best photos from my trip to Kew Gardens in April:
Please feel free to check it out, and I’d love to know what you think!
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Tags: Kew Gardens, photo, photo book, photographic study, Photography, self-published book, Spring flowers
Categories : Uncategorized
A reminder of home
6 05 2009The elegant, sweeping, grey/green/blue leaves of a gum tree … sometimes it takes seeing a completely incongruous stand of eucalypts in a thoroughly English garden to make you realise that it’s the little things that add up to what you miss about home
A curtain of gum leaves, Kew Gardens
Where's a koala when there's food to be had?
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Tags: gum leaves, Kew Gardens, photo, photographic study, Photography, Spring
Categories : Europe, Flower, Landscape, London, Portrait, UK
