London Part 3 - Out and about

London Part 2 - Street Photos

This trip to London was the first time in AGES that I've felt like a photographer again ...

London Part 1 - Travel

Just come back from a long weekend in London with Poppy. Did plenty, saw plenty - so the photos will come in stages. The first set are all travel - train & tube.

Years ago I took a photo of Susie that is so like this one. It makes for nice photos - good distance, good light, good head and eye position. Anyway, I think this worked with Poppy as well as it did with her mother some 14 years earlier.


I like this one - bright colours at the bottom, near enough monochrome above.

Summer at last!

Summer's here at last and the blackberries have ripened nicely, as you can see ...


Lovely clear view down to Longdendale, with Glossopdale on the right.


Behind Spring Street ...


Market Street


This photo isn't any good technically or artistically but she went skipping down Gibble Gabble swinging here arms in the best possible mood and it was great to see.

Odd

The girls are away and it's kind of odd being all alone in the house. Can't wait for tonight - haven't seen Pops for over 2 weeks.

If Hollywood hadn't called ...

Holga-ised

The Holga is so fashionable at the moment that I thought I'd redo this pic as though I'd used a £30 plastic camera. The thing is, it doesn't look too bad.

At the moment I'm listening to Kombat over and over again. What a song! It's not actually about combat. Kombat means the Battalion Commander. But it is about WW2 in Russia - fighting, girls, vodka, bravery. I love it.

Pairs

Wednesday

I'm quite happy with this picture of the station. Given that bits were in sunshine and bits in shade it came out quite well. It's a nice rural station but it's odd to think it was once on the line to London! It is said we only have a station because the man who owned the company lived in the village but I doubt that's true - the mills would have required one anyway, without a canal.


Our shop. It's easy to think nothing changes but i wonder how many of these brands will be around in 10 years?


Chris. Who very kindly agreed to a photo.


The railway bridge to Glossop and Hadfield. It's the second bridge - the first was wooden. The electric trains are so quiet that you don't even notice them, and the railway is right opposite our bedroom windows.


Garden street. I reckon most people in the village wouldn't know where it is.


This will change - next year the Hair Gallery is having extensions upstairs. Which fits.



One of the two last big mills - Tiviot Prints.

Monday Evening walk

Poppy in Czecho

Nicola's in the Czech Republic spending 17 days with her grandmother, going to caves, castles and spending time in the countryside. Apparently she can even do the breaststroke properly now in the village pond! Anyway, judging by this shot she seems to be coping, just.

Summer's here ... so it's a little otter

Taken at the Chesnut centre, Chapel-en-la Frith, Derbyshire.

Ladies

Portraits