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The Queen’s House, Greenwich Park, and Canary Wharf – August 2018

20 Monday Aug 2018

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Canary Wharf, East London, Fuji XT20, Fujifilm, Greenwich Park, London skyline, monochrome, National Maritime Museum, Old Royal Naval College, south east London, The Queen's House

The view from Greenwich Park, Queen's House, Canary Wharf skyline
A Sunday afternoon walk to Greenwich Park, through the flower garden, past the bandstand to say hello to my uncle playing piano with a Big Band on the bandstand, then on to the Wolfe statue for the classic view over the park looking north.

One day – one day – I’ll pull together some proper then-and-now photos taken from this spot over the last 15 years. But this is how it looks now: the grass in the park very slightly greened up and recovered after weeks without rain; the Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf stopped at this particular moment of development, a brief pause before the glass and steel buildings spread further out from Canada Square. I’ll no doubt be back there in the coming weeks – maybe I’ll try a then-and-now then.

Back garden poppies

04 Saturday Aug 2018

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Nice light on a summer’s morning in my back garden. I should probably have deadheaded these weeks ago but have been holding off in order to dissect the heads and show my daughter the seeds, something I have a vague memory of doing as a child myself.

I enjoyed shooting these but was a bit discomfited by how many shots I had to discard due to camera shake: either it’s the increased camera resolution, or I can’t hold the camera as still for macro shots as I used to be able to. Of course, I could have just been not so lazy and taken the short walk back into the house to get the tripod…

Westport Bay, Co. Mayo, Ireland – March 2018

30 Friday Mar 2018

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A brief look out from The Quay in Westport, on a work trip at the end of March.

Grainger Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – Christmas Eve 2017

24 Sunday Dec 2017

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black and white, Fuji XT20, granger market, monochrome, Newcastle

The Grainger Market in Newcastle, winding down for Christmas. I hadn’t been in for 10+ years: nice to see a good mixture of old-fashioned, practical shops mixed with some newer borderline-hipster offerings; deeply depressing to see the foodbank and be reminded of where we are as a country at the end of 2017.

‘Yobs’, Lewisham; November 2017

16 Thursday Nov 2017

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Spotted in the bridge under the railway line by Lewisham station, this struck me as quite an old-fashioned approach to graffiti these days. More like something from a 70’s British photobook than the developer-approved street art of 2017 London.

Folkestone Harbour Arm; October 2017

02 Thursday Nov 2017

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A nice end-of-autumn Saturday afternoon in Folkestone; using the excuse of the Triennial to visit, but mostly mooching along the harbour arm. All shot on my Fuji XT10 with a Fuji XF35mm f1.4 lens.

The Seven Sisters, from Cuckmere Haven

03 Thursday Aug 2017

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Seven Sisters from Cuckmere Haven

A sunny, blustery Sunday on the Sussex coast at Cuckmere Haven. See a couple more shots of the same place here.

Autumn in my garden; October 2016

22 Saturday Oct 2016

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blackandwhite, fig leaves, iphoneography, monochrome, shadows, Snapseed

A couple of snaps shot on my iPhone and edited in Snapseed iOS from an autumn afternoon in my back garden.

Canary Wharf station entrance; October 2016

06 Thursday Oct 2016

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Canary Wharf Tube Station Entrance

Shot on my iPhone, processed with Snapseed iOS app. A walking-from-cash-machine-back-to-the-office snap.

East Greenwich and East London skyline; Jan 2010 & October 2016

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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Shot from Charlton Road, overlooking the A102 Blackwall Tunnel approach. The Olympic Stadium is already staring to disappear behind new developments (view full-size, squint and you might see the top of it just to the left of the Orbit). At some point I guess we can expect the Millennium Dome to get similarly obscured.

Here’s a similar view from 2010:

No buildings on the Peninsula between Dome and Greenwich Millennium Village, no cable  car, no sign of the Olympic developments. I just wish the 2010 shot included the “eco” Sainsbury’s which has since been demolished (unthinkable at the time).

Putting this together tells me I should a) get a long lens for my Fuji, b) take these more often (and catalogue them better in my archives).

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