Monday 22nd September 2014, 3.45pm (day 1,124)
I hope this one isn’t too much like Google Street View. Even if it is, it’s still the cleanest and most satisfying shot I managed today, in one of the few bursts of light that came while I was outside.
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Category Archives: Urban scene
Cat on Old Gate
Saturday 20th September 2014, 11.10am (day 1,122)
Another grey day, but I got fed up complaining about the lack of light and decided to try harder to compensate. This cat looks rather worried by being added to the range of solitary cats which have appeared on this blog, but beyond its rather concerned expression, I like this shot.
Back of the White Lion
Friday 19th September 2014, 7.20pm (day 1,121)
There has been no weather for days now. No rain, no sun, no real clouds even, just this grey pall stuck over the world. Worst possible photography light. So here we are, with the help of some artificial illumination here’s today’s shot of a pub — you’ll be thinking I spend all my time in these places. *cough*
The rooves of Nutclough
Thursday 18th September 2014, 4.20pm (day 1,120)
Today was not a great deal more active, or well-lit, than yesterday, but now and again there are still new things to be found in the immediate vicinity of the house. These are the rooves of our neighbours, the road curving down the hill towards the town, viewed from our attic room.
Russell Square
Tuesday 16th September 2014, 2.00pm (day 1,118)
Had a meeting down in London today — where it was still, very definitely, summer, despite the fallen leaves.
Sometimes I just walk out and gaze at the sun
Monday 15th September 2014, 9.35am (day 1,117)
Sometimes you just see a shot, and have about five seconds and one chance to capture it before it goes away (in this case because the guy simply stepped back inside through the window to his left). They don’t always come out as hoped, but this one did. Played for and got.
Watching ‘Pulp Fiction’
Sunday 14th September 2014, 8.10pm (day 1,116)
Hebden Bridge’s best community asset is its superb cinema, particularly as it is still council- rather than corporate-owned. I particularly think this when it spends the evening showing a 20-year old film just because it’s a great movie and deserves — as do all movies — to be seen on a big screen, as the director intended. And the bit when Marvin’s head gets blown off is still one of the funniest and most bad-taste deaths in cinema history.
OK, this shot’s a bit fuzzy, but hey, you try getting something under these conditions…. Actually I quite like this one.
Waiting for the morning bus
Friday 12th September 2014, 7.50am (day 1,114)
Last day in Stavanger. I was waiting for my bus back to the airport, and on the other side of the road, these guys were waiting for their bus to, wherever. I’m home now — and hopefully, so are they.
Stormy sky, Stavanger
Tuesday 9th September 2014, 6.05pm (day 1,111)
Day 1,111 of the blog, so something of a numerical curiosity, and worth trying to mark with a decent photo, at least. This is the old Port of Stavanger, still used by cruise ships and tourist fjord cruises, caught in the evening light but with a dark and stormy sky behind — though the storm never actually came. I like the single seagull caught in the rays.
Flags in the evening sun
Sunday 7th September 2014, 5.30pm (day 1,109)
Beautiful day today, coming at that time of year when you want to make the most of each day of very good weather in case it’s the last such day you see for 8 months. These flags have appeared this weekend in that much-photographed spot opposite the tables outside the Railway, and posed well in the evening light — those sunsets getting ever earlier as the world turns.
