London Night Carnival 2012
London’s special street festival. This year it was at the same time as the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics but still managed to draw a huge crowd.
Wild Rye
A perfect summer’s Friday walking through the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve a few miles from Rye Touristland. The harbour itself is pleasant and relaxing but Wild Rye has it all. Visit the Seaside Gallery for more pics of this beautiful place.
Green n Gold
A leisurely cruise from Little Venice passes the London Zoo and turns into the final stretch down to Camden Lock. A great thing to do for visitors and locals alike on a brilliant sunny summers’ day in London.
Country House(boat)
On Saturday I took a walk along the Thames Creek in Essex with a photography group. Leaving Benfleet we walked along the creek and then up to Hadleigh Castle and down to Leigh on Sea.
Canalside Colour
Another shot along Regent’s Canal, this time in Primrose Hill. At the moment around these parts the canal is a ribbon of colour winding its way through north London. It is particularly vibrant now as a covering of duck weed stretches for quite some distance. But it is the houseboats and canoes that provide much of the colour.
One Tree Hill
This week I took another long walk through the spectacular Kent countryside. The walk started at Lullingstone and went up a hill, one tree hill by my reckoning, through the wheat fields smothered in poppies, across a fairway on a golf course, dodging golf balls and getting lost, along the ridge high above Shoreham and back along the Darent River to Eynsford. All on a most spectacular summery day.
Extensions Ladder
Broken Lines
Nearby buildings and late afternoon traffic reflected in Poured Lines, the painting by Ian Davenport under the railway bridge leading into Blackfriars Station close to Tate Modern. The painting is the length of 5 London buses (not of the bendy variety) and consists of straight lines in 300 different colours.
View Across the Canal
This week’s walk through the Kent countryside involved a three mile stretch along the Royal Military Canal built at the beginning of the 19th century as a defence against possible invasion. However, the threat from Napoleon and his armies had subsided by the time the canal was actually completed in 1808.