Smooth

Grimy

The best time of the year in many ways. The wind has stripped the leaves from the trees and the sunlight falls through the gaps.

Dreamy

I’ve photographed these angels many times, but not with a DSLR

Grumpy

Can’t make up my mind about this one. He (it?) has fallen on its side. The whole thing might be better rather than the ‘head shot’

The Hardest Hit

Betrayed

Relax. Impossible to do with The Coalition attack on benefits

Henry, Deptford, April 2011

Plates are so round except when viewed through water.

From above there were reflections from the water:

The willow pattern blue shows through when avoiding the reflection:

In the little hut at the back of the A.P.T. Gallery yard. Photographing for Sue Lawes Creekery2 installation at CREEKSIDE OPEN 2011 this week.

And did I get muddy?

Roads to nowhere…

Signs of the times…

Olympic village

Triumphal arch

These were all taken on a sunny NOT St Georges Day, the one The Mayor of London got so badly wrong (this year it falls on Easter weekend so it gets shunted to May 2nd). Boris is a fuckwit.

Shortly afterwards, the sun was followed by an apocalyptic electrical storm. Kind of appropriate really.

Olympic trickledown anyone?

Give them a bone

I didn’t know whether to photograph this skipper. It was in the back of an abandoned lorry trailer. But obviously I did… intrusive or not.

Trailer skipper

However, karma came back round. I bolloxed up spooling this roll of film and had to do some significant ‘recovery’ to get this image.

Just round the corner is (I assume) the source of all the broken bottles and rubbish that litters this area.

Audio Rehab (Serenity Saturday?)

Needless to say, I’m not on the guest list.

Lets leave it with this

Grim…

My feelings too

I haven’t walked The Dog along the Thames Path around the peninsular for a while. Mainly because it hasn’t been possible because of the barriers. I hesitate to say it is ‘open’, but it is walkable. Just fenced.

Fenced

Lots of what made this area of Greenwich so unique is disappearing fast. Currently there are vast empty rubble-filled spaces left after the recent destruction/deconstruction, presumably to be filled with the banal dormitories that are covering Greenwich and Lewisham like some malignant growth. Much of the peninsular remains inaccessible.

Security

Or behind a gate

Space (empty) is not at a premium though

I even found an abandoned chair or two behind bars.

But enough of this negativity. There are still lots of good things to photograph along the path. Even if I have photographed them before… But there was a reason dear reader, just bear with me on the ramble

Boats, yay

The beach obviously changes all the time

WTF?

Westminster life saver

I was itching to use some film again and the day was gloriously sunny, just asking for FP4+ at EI100. Should have made it EI80 thinking about it. I also wanted to try a super lazy stand development with Rodinal, 1+200 for 3hrs with 1 minute initial agitation and a mere 5s gentle inversion at 90 mins. How cool is that? I also mixed in a roll of Tri-X. I’m pleased with the results so thanks for the suggestion in the comments.

Less pleased I screwed up one roll of film spooling cack-handedly, out of practice.

We’ll end where we began because, well… what he said