26 Friday Apr 2013
Posted in Photography
Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, St Ives, originally uploaded by neilclasper.
From 4 years ago this week, in one of my favourite places: Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture garden in St.Ives, Cornwall.
More of my Hepworth pictures here.
22 Monday Apr 2013
19 Friday Apr 2013
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Deckchairs, Brighton Beach, originally uploaded by neilclasper.
A scorching hot weekend in Brighton, 3 years ago this week. Our long, cold winter is over, but we’re not quite on the deckchairs yet this year.
15 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in London, Photography
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East London, edgeland, industry, post-industrial landscape, Silvertown, sugar, Tate & Lyle, Tate and Lyle
Shot on an east London exploration, mid-December last year. A small amount of industry in a largely post-industrial, pre-regeneration landscape.
12 Friday Apr 2013
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An early evening walk down to the beach at Whitstable. Sun breaking though the clouds to the west, rain approaching from the north east. A flock of oystercatchers flew past: sadly neither of the cameras I was carrying was up to the job of catching them. The birdsong here is fantastic, and the air noticeably cleaner than my corner of south east London has been recently.
05 Friday Apr 2013
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East Greenwich, Greenwich Peninsula, housing, london, Redevelopment, social housing, Tunnel Refineries, yuppie ghetto
From this time 3 years ago (though somehow – Olympic effect, maybe? – it seems much longer), the now-demolished Tunnel Refineries silos on Greenwich Peninsula.
Three years on and the Peninsula looks very different already; but what is its future? Darryl at 853blog has a depressing report which suggests it’ll be a fairly bleak yuppie development, with social housing ghettoised at the south end; the north an extension of Canary Wharf, rather than a part of Greenwich. This seems a missed opportunity to create some of the kind of housing suitable for families that the area needs , and that our Labour council should remain so in thrall to developers remains a source of deep gloom.
29 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in London, Photography
From 5 years ago this week, the shot from which I’ve cropped this site’s header image.
From March 1998
I tried to recreate this a few weeks ago but couldn’t work out where I’d actually taken it from; eventually I worked out that at some point in the intervening 5 years, the lampposts on the A102 have been replaced with taller versions, making for an uglier photo. I’ll try again sometime when it’s a bit less chilly.
Those 5 years have seen significant change to this view (whether it’s from Old Dover Road, or Charlton Road): the cable car, Olympic Park, Stadium, and Orbit have all appeared, for better or worse, plus a variety of new buildings along the Peninsula with – in theory – plenty more to follow.
27 Wednesday Mar 2013
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A break in the most tedious winter I can remember.
15 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in Photography, Reading
And a photo from (more or less) 4 years ago today.
A brief, ill-advised 2009 flirtation with sepia. I’m not sure I’d plonk the horizon bang on the half way line any more, either, but it has a certain dramatic quality.
Some things I thought worth reading this week:
08 Friday Mar 2013
Posted in Photography, Reading
Olympic Stadium from Shooters Hill, London, originally uploaded by neilclasper.Some things worth reading that I found this week:
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