Author: Christian

Exploring The Docklands

Exploring The Docklands

Reading Time: 4 minutes For this month’s London extravaganxa I decided to go out a bit further afield and take a trek out to Greenwich and the Docklands. A long time ago I went on a scout trip staying on the Lord Amory and remember a night walk including 

A Visual Ethnography of Hyde Park

A Visual Ethnography of Hyde Park

Reading Time: 4 minutes So this is starting to bring together the ideas I have for my Dissertation, and the reason I bought this little camera last year. In the course of my life in Hyde park, I have been acting the role of ‘researcher participat[ing]’, as Herbert Gans 

Beardy Weirdies and Tornados!

Beardy Weirdies and Tornados!

Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve tried a new festival experience here, the oddly named Bearded Theory in Derbyshire. This was, in many ways, a very interesting experience! We took ther train down, while some friends carried the bulk of our kit, and (accidentally, honest) due to the discovery of 

Cable Street and Other Riots

Cable Street and Other Riots

Reading Time: 3 minutes Back in London again. Meeting again on St Mary Axe I wandered past the Lloyds Building and Leadenhall Market. I was struck by this mkeshift protest memorial to Ian Tomlinson, the newpaper seller murdered (and I will state my opinion here) by the police recently. 

Mornington Crescent

Mornington Crescent

Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in London again. I recall when I was very young and even more obsessed with the Underground that I am now, making my poor father take me on every line – possibly harder now with more gates and barriers – during the course of 

Cranes and Sunsets

Cranes and Sunsets

Reading Time: 2 minutes I guess if there’s any theme to this it’s more of the idea of looking up at the sky, but really it’s just posting a few good images. I shot the cranes over town the other morning. I loved the way they fade into the 

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

Reading Time: 2 minutes This months London adventure I went over to the Natural History Museum. This is somewhere I have been as a child (every dinosaur obsessed kids dream), so it was nice to see it again. I am upset that they have replaced the Diplodocus though. My 

That London

That London

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is very exciting. I have been asked to serve on a development user group for some software that we use at work, which is meaning some trips to London over the next year. And very kindly the company has agreed to book my return 

Winter Crispness

Winter Crispness

Reading Time: < 1 minutes As, sometimes happens, we found ourselves wandering round Hyde Park at some ungodly hour of the morning, in the crisp, winter frost. I took these and thought I’d just stick them up here.

The Damned

The Damned

Reading Time: 1 minute After many years, I have finally got to see The Damned again, at Leeds Irish Centre. They were reallygood, much better than the revisiting the punk days line up of the early 90s, playing plenty of the more psychedelic material. The Irish centre, lit up 

Otley

Otley

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just a random day, random wander about Otley. I had a bit of a play with the camera and it’s various settings by the river. It’s taken quite a while to even get close to learning what this can do, even a cheap compact. I’ve 

Solfest

Solfest

Reading Time: 4 minutes Another visit to Solfest, up near Aspatria on the cumbrian coast. This really is a good event – It gets the right balance between size and scale, being big enough that there’s plenty going on, without being crowded to hell. There’s a 24 hour arena/cafes,