Category Archives: Ilford HP5+

Country Lamp Post

Narnia springs to mind but I loathe the allegorical, classist, sexist, quasi-religiosity so much I’ll have to wash my mouth out.

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Sevendroog Castle. Trompe L’Oeil

A friend recently discovered Sevendroog Castle when wandering round Jack Wood after a few spliffs. He couldn’t believe his eyes. It is such an extraordinary and unexpected folly because it is not really visible until you stumble upon it. At least not from the directions that we have approached it.

It is at the top...

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Watching You Watching Him

The Dog Gizmo thinks anybody with a hoodie is The Lobster. Despite the Mohican. Nanoseconds later he went racing up the steps to say hello.

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Light Fantastic – No Trip

Shave my beard and call me normal… A sunny day! I don’t have a beard and am probably not normal anyway – cue Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) in Repo man Look at ‘em, ordinary fucking people, I hate ‘em.
Hunkered down here under the wharf lapping up the reflections as the tide raced in. I made...

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Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral:
But in my arms till break of day
Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love by W. H. Auden (first verse)
Or just be careful Eugene…

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For The Record

Since I was out with The Lobster and Gizmo I’m allowed to be down with the youth and say we had a bangin’ day walking around the peninsular.

More I hear you cry! Haven’t you done this to death? Well, only this week three of the Tunnel Refineries’ silos were blown-up and rumour has it the...

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Hush, Quietly Now

Shhhh, is there an artist here?

Look carefully…
A red filter might have helped here with legibility. I’d like to say I don’t make a habit of photographing brick walls but that just wouldn’t be true. These days I’m a (little) more discerning though, there is usually a reason. Like the gateway to the fourth dimension.
I’ve been...

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Box Of delights

I went back and re-photographed what had been so cruelly destroyed by light the day before. Is that sad? But I’m so glad I did.
The eponymous box of delights is in fact a suitcase and I wanted to snap it before it got kicked around even more or even disappeared.

Like I speculate on what my...

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