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"Celebration Time - C'mon!"

March 11, 2021 • 1 Comment

Today I join Kool and the Gang in their exuberant 1981, chart-topping hit “Celebration”, because I just received my first Covid vaccination. Normality, here I come! Slowly and carefully, I admit, but the light at the end of the tunnel is no longer a train coming the other way. Yeah!! Harlem Nights Which brings me to this image, which I came acros...

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Global Warming?

March 04, 2021 • 1 Comment

Has the jungle reclaimed Manhattan, or did I benefit from an unusual juxtaposition of architecture and plants? I took this photo on the roof terrace of a reception centre in mid-town. It was Summer and the terrace had been decorated for the season, to create a carnival atmosphere, using exotic plants. I was moving around, scouting interesting angl...

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75cm and 350 Million Years

February 24, 2021 • 1 Comment

A Wonder Of Nature Dragonflies are a wonder of nature, which so perfected themselves during the Permian era that they have hardly changed form since then, except for one thing – size. They were then the largest insects to ever fly, with a wingspan of nearly 1 meter. Our beautiful, frequently shimmering neighbours of today are smaller, but no less...

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To Drone Or Not To Drone?

February 18, 2021 • 1 Comment

There are many beautiful images being made using drones and many heretofore impossible angles of view being discovered, giving us a whole new perspective on both nature and news gathering. It only seems like yesterday that every photo show I attended started to have enclosed drone pens for flying demonstrations and exhibitor stalls selling “flying”...

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Covid, Flood, Snow, Ice and Pigeons

February 12, 2021 • 1 Comment

Le Zouave The Alma bridge in Paris is named after a French Crimean War victory. It hosts “ Le Zouave”, the sole survivor of the four original military statues which decorated the previous version of the bridge. They commemorated regiments which fought in the Crimea. Le Zouave sits on one of the bridge’s pillars, facing upstream. Famously, as the...

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