Today’s photograph was taken on this day in 2014, somewhere along the River Thames. Curved railings and green slime covered lead down to the river. A bell shaped object at the top of the picture echoes the railings.
On this day 8th March
On this day 7th March
Taken on an early spring day in 2015 with strong sunlight cutting through Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, London and throwing into stark relief the ironwork.
Time and place
Many years ago I studied history and, along with the causes of the English Revolution and the Partition of India, it taught me two things
One – always question everything. Just because things are the way they are now does not mean that is how they have always been and always will be. History is not fixed, contrary to the opinion of a few misguided politicians jumping on bandwagons. Our view of our past will always change because we always change, and we should celebrate that fact not set up strictures on what is and what is not history.
Secondly, and combined with my love and photography I have a strong sense of time and place. Sometimes it is looking through old photographs and connecting with the moment they were taken. On other occasions it is when I am photographing a place where something happened. It could be something dramatic, a battle fought; or something mundane, a life lived; but whatever it is I feel that I am drawn back to that moment in the photographs I take of that place.
I am currently working on a series of photo essays that will be appear on the blog over the next few months. Through my photographs and research they will each look at a particular place and a particular time.
The first one will be appear very shortly and I do hope that you enjoy reading them. Your views will be much appreciated.
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On this day 4th March
Today’s photograph was taken on the 4th March 2018 on a dull and gloomy day. St Luke’s is a church on Old Street, London, built in the 18th Century. Designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, it includes this striking obelisk for a tower.
On this day 1st March
Taken on the 1st March 2019, a reflected view of the London Eye caught in a puddle at the Southbank Centre.
On this day 22nd February
Today’s photograph was taken nine years ago in 2014.
When I have visitors come up to London we usually meet at Waterloo Station so I have got to know the area very well over the years, including the Southbank Centre full of corners and alcoves, many of them used for alternative activities, such as skateboarding:
On this day 20th February
Another photograph from my archive and, again, taken in Prague on this day in 2016. This one shows the old Jewish Cemetery in Žižkov. Much of the cemetery was destroyed when the Žižkov Television Tower was built almost on top of it in the 1980’s.
On this day 18th February
Today’s photograph was taken five years ago in Prague, Czech Republic. It shows the cables from the trams with, in the background, Prague Castle.
On this day 17th February
Today’s photograph was taken on the 17th February 2018 on a stroll somewhere in East London.
On this day 16th February
A photograph from this day in an earlier year; in this case, 2019, at Upnor on the River Medway in Kent, almost opposite Chatham.
At the time I was off the bicycle as I recovered from a broken collarbone; a lot of my photography around about then was train assisted walking.
