Moira Furnace
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
It is a most important industrial monument, since it is remarkably well-preserved, and dates from a formative period of the Industrial Revolution.
We built sandcastles that washed away
We built sand castles that washed away, I made you cry when I walked away…
This (photo) reminds me of that (painting)
The photograph on the left is one I took of a decorative old water pump in the garden of Paycocke’s House, in Coggeshall, Essex in the summer. The painting on the right is one I painted in 1986 called The blue conduit…
It was a very good year: rural Hungary in 1985
After graduating from art college in 1985, I went to stay with my grandparents at their smallholding in southwest Hungary for a couple of months, from August to after the grape harvest in late September.
It was a summer of good food and drink, simple labour, reflection, and some loneliness.
The Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets in Guernsey
This is a photo of the Little Chapel at Les Vauxbelets in Guernsey, taken in the late 1960s or early 70s. I only vaguely recall going to the island of Guernsey as a small child with my mother and brother. I think my dad stayed at home, so I'm not sure who took this photo, but it did end up in the family photo album.
Old photos of Kennedy Space Centre from 1984
In 1984, while still at Hornsey School of Art, I sold my old Ford Escort mk1 and used the proceeds to go to the USA and visit my old school friends who had emigrated a few years earlier to New Orleans. A group of us went on a road trip to Florida, with our destination being the Kennedy Space Center.
In rural Hungary in winter (video 01:13)
At the beginning of February 2012 I went to a family gathering in Ösi, a small village in Western Hungary
On the Dalyan River (video 4:03)
In late September 2018, on a warm, still afternoon in Turkey, I took the last boat from beautiful Iztuzu Beach, at the mouth of the Dalyan River delta, back to Dalyan, a few kilometres upriver.
Nile turtle in the Dalyan River (video 1:29)
This Nile Turtle arrived for breakfast every morning at the Longhouse Inn Hotel by the riverside in Dalyan. It was fed on any leftover eggs (scrambled and boiled). Some establishments on the riverside lure the species with chicken skin in order to attract more customers, a practice which is in fact harmful to this secretive turtle which is unable to digest this food alien to its natural diet. I would imagine eggs aren't great for it to be eating every day either.
Tree-felling in Istanbul (video 4:26)
One morning while on holiday in Istanbul, I heard a chainsaw in the street. I tried to ignore it but it was a really intrusive noise and I wondered what was taking such a hammering. I looked out of the window and was peturbed to see a man cutting down the large Acacia tree (I think) in the yard of the house opposite...
Photographs taken around Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door in 2011
This is an update to a post I originally wrote in 2011 when I took a trip to Dorset to visit the unique landscape of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, southern England.
Video: Meteor Crater V2 (00:52)
This is a re-edit of a video I made in 2010, which I never felt was right, and the music really annoys me. It's a bit tighter than the original, but to get a real feel for this amazing place, check out this Smithsonian video.
The Lion of Knidos: the completion of a personal 27-year journey
I went to the British Museum yesterday. In the Great Court, the very first monumental sculpture you encounter is the magnificent Lion of Knidos.
Weighing more than 7 tons, this colossal lion comes from a tomb in the ancient city of Knidos, a coastal city in south-west Turkey. The tomb stood on the edge of a cliff overlooking the approach to Knidos harbour. The building itself rose some 18 metres, and its pyramid roof was topped by the lion.
Topkapı Palace
The Topkapı Palace, or the Seraglio, is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.
The crystal-clear Azmak River in south west Turkey (video 03:40)
This is a film of a short boat trip on the beautiful Azmak River in Akyaka in the Gulf of Gököva in Turkey.
Exquisite drain (video 00:14)
This channel for guiding rainwater into a little drain is in the Imperial Harem complex in the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul.
Kaymaklı Underground City
Kaymaklı Underground City is contained within the citadel of Kaymaklı in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. First opened to tourists in 1964, the village is about 19 km from Nevşehir, on the Nevşehir-Niğde road.
Dervish (video 03:20)
The Mesale café in the Arasta Bazaar in Istanbul. The band assembled first, tuned up and then started playing some sublime music. Then the Dervish came up and performed his whirling dance.
My Strand Underpass photo on Wikipedia
This is a brief entry merely to note that a photo I took 7 years ago is now being used to illustrate the Wikipedia entry on Strand Underpass.
Daily photo diary from Turkey, September 2014
These are the 17 photographs I uploaded to my daily photo diary on Blipfoto from my trip to Turkey in September 2014.