Wallk

Girona, Catalunya, Spain 2005: Girona’s old defensive walls gave some interesting angles- Hendrix’s “all along the watchtower” springs to mind…. Canon EOS 1N/75-300

Tartus

Tartus, Syria, 2005: A rusted mural of the al-Assad’s adorns a wall of an old mill in the seaside town of Tartus. The al-Assad dynasty of father dictator, Hafez (president 1971-2000); eldest son Basil, (groomed as successor- but killed in a car accident in 1994): and youngest son (and current dictator) Bashar, are also known […]

Palace

Buckingham Palace, London, 1997: Just scanned this old neg today, a time-capsule (if you like) from 15 years ago… I was passing Buckingham Palace on my usual route into town from Victoria Station when I came across this crowd… Then there was an RAF fly-over… click- it must be the Queens birthday…. In hindsight those […]

Firth of Forth

Firth of Forth, Scotland, 1997: The iconic Forth Bridge links Edinburgh- over the waters of the Forth of Firth– with Fife to the North… Mamiya ZE/50mm 1.7/Fuji Superia

Bos

South Taranaki, New Zealand, 2004: Cows are bizarre looking creatures when you take a closer look- particularly in Taranaki where they are literally part of the landscape… Cows/cattle are the most common species of the genus Bos. The name cattle was borrowed from the old French word catel, meaning ‘moveable personal property’. The term is […]

Interzone

Tangier, Morocco, 1998: After running the gauntlet of taxi-drivers, touts and scam artists at the port- I eventually found the hotel where William S. Burroughs wrote “Naked Lunch”. Tangiers wasn’t exactly a tourist destination at the time, it was still living up to it’s time honored debauched reputation. No issue getting a room at the […]

Border Country

Poipet, Cambodia, 2001: Crossing from Thailand into Cambodia was via an invisible line where the towns of Aranyaprathet (Thai) and Poipet (Cambodian) straddled the border. There was a visa scam at Cambodian passport control regarding whether you had particular vaccinations (yellow fever)- like it mattered… I managed to get through without paying a bribe by […]

Dalmatian

Split, Dalmatia, Croatia. 2002: 1 Dalmatian, make that 2… You know what they say about a dog and its owner…? Canon EOS 100/28-105mm

Nuclear

South West France, 1998: Drive by shooting at the extreme- on the TGV high-speed train… somewhere between Tours and Bordeaux these Nuclear power-plant cooling towers came into view- albeit very briefly… A TGV train made a world record in 2007 by reaching the speed of… 574.8 kmph/357.2 mph… France is the world leader in domestic […]