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Tree.
This large tree by the lake is one of my favourites. I walk past it quite often but I’m not sure what it is. It might be an ash. More things I don’t know: why some trees have mossy branches while...
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Two Gloomy Square Pictures
A picture I took on a dark, foggy day of a bit of the cliff behind our house. And below, a shadow and reflection on the kitchen ceiling panelling. The bright reflection is made by the black ceramic...
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Absent-Minded Dog.
In the middle, the metal gate into the meadow by our house. It’s for tractors, cattle and horses; to the left is the wooden V-shaped passage for people and dogs. It’s too narrow for cattle to escape...
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Ara Güler. The Greatest Photographer of Modern Istanbul.
Orhan Pamuk has written an article in the New York Times about his friend the Armenian photographer Ara Güler, who just died. The pictures show Istanbul of the 1950s with its unusual wood and stone...
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Late Summer
During the past three days the leaves have been turning colour and falling, late summer becoming early winter. It’s still fairly warm even at night. I’d been told bright autumn colour is caused by...
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Knut Hjeltnes
Who would have thought, without it looking out of place, you could construct a welded-steel frame, turn it into a wooden house and dump it on an island right in the middle in a Norwegian fjord? I love...
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I’m On The Train
This is a tiny version of a photograph by Danish Siddiqui (there’s a bigger version here), one of a series he took of the Pyongyang subway (he also took these while he was in N.Korea). He’s a terrific...
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Here Is The View
On the left, the view directly* out of the bedroom window showing the hillside beyond the garden. I’m trying to take pictures of green stuff – trees, shrubs, plants and landscape – which clearly...
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Tulips in September
Dyveke bought this print at Kew, last month. Now it’s the first thing I see when I wake up; it and the reflection of the weather and garden. In the foreground is the outhouse roof and its skylight...
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Why The Long Face?
This is a portrait by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies of Margot Eates and Hartley Ramsden, both of whom wrote about Art and modern artists (Naum Gabo, Paul Nash and Piet Mondrian) while they were all living...
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Defibrillator.
In the Cotswolds village of Upper Slaughter, a General Post Office K-6 former telephone kiosk now contains a defibrillator.
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Moira’s First Birthday
I’m having a little trouble with the layout on this WordPress thing and I’ve forgotten how HTML works. Anyway this is Kaiser, a huge Borzoi bending down to greet Dyveke a few weeks after Moira was...
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Chloe Dewe Mathews: Hasidic Holiday
My memory for work I admire isn’t brilliant but something that stuck and I return to is these 20 pictures by Chloe Mathews. They are of a group of Hasidic families who take holidays in Aberystwyth...
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The engineer Wilem Frischmann, now aged 87 and still working, was not yet 30 when he designed the structure of Centre Point, a 1960s high-rise office building in central London. His method was to...
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Say It With Flowers & Trees
First the flowers, Dyveke gave Alma some roses to congratulate her for having got a place at the Royal College of Art. They are still going a month later. I gave Dyveke two orchids for her birthday....
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Yellow Door
I found three photographs of Portobello Road taken on a saturday in about 1959, by Norman McCaskill, showing my mother’s café in the background. She’d called it The Yellow Door but it was known as...
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Portrait in the Landscape
This is one of those landscape-format portraits like Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews, though I wasn’t thinking of that when I took my photographs. In my case the landowner is trudging home with the...
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Goasts
Vesla died a year ago. She was one year older than Misty & Holly who died last week aged thirteen.
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There Is No Bank
Many blocks in the town of Richmond-on-Thames are bisected by narrow footpaths just wide enough for two people to pass each other. I imagine they are medieval and therefore older than most of the...
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Smoking.
Chef hides round the corner to have a fag. Taken outside a café opposite the LRB Bookshop in Pied Bull Yard, London.
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