Cites and Sounds

A wonderfully appropriate early birthday card from my colleagues

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:17:55 +0000

A wonderfully appropriate early birthday card from my colleagues

Well what else would you call indoor grass just for cats?

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:33:19 +0000

Well what else would you call indoor grass just for cats?

The River Thames and the Wandle trail

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:04:08 +0000

The River Thames and the Wandle trail

Sunlight through the trees in Richmond Park

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:42:29 +0000

Sunlight through the trees in Richmond Park

A frosty and beautiful Richmond Park on a Sunday morning

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:02:08 +0000

A frosty and beautiful Richmond Park on a Sunday morning

Giles Fraser on capitalism, sustainability and resources

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:25:00 +0000

Giles Fraser on capitalism, sustainability and resources: The focus Giles Fraser has on talking...

Today's going through my head song

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:51:27 +0000

Today's going through my head song: Neil Young - Rockin’ in the Free World. Which might be...

Distant Mordor

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:41:27 +0000

Distant Mordor

"Our response [so far] has not been alarm, or panic, or a sense of emergency. It has been:..."

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:48:50 +0100

“Our response [so far] has not been alarm, or panic, or a sense of emergency. It has been:...

Last weekend was only the second time I’ve been to...

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:51:41 +0100

Last weekend was only the second time I’ve been to Richmond Park on two feet, rather than two wheels. It’s one of the few places in London where you feel a proper degree of personal space. Parakeets, joggers, cars at 20mph and deer notwithstanding.

life: A birds-eye view of Lower Manhattan, 1945. On the...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:20:17 +0100

life:

A birds-eye view of Lower Manhattan, 1945.

On the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, LIFE pays tribute to New York with photos of Lower Manhattan, made in the decades before the Twin Towers defined the foot of the island.

Battersea Park this morning - thankful I get to cycle through...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:19:38 +0100

Battersea Park this morning - thankful I get to cycle through this twice a day (Taken with Instagram)

Been announced that Neil Armstrong has died, at the age of...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:29:28 +0100

Been announced that Neil Armstrong has died, at the age of 82.

As the media wheel-out the pre-written obituaries, it’s worth remembering that what Armstrong achieved in 1969 was repeated, but not since December 1973. We’ve never returned: the space race was over, the political willpower embedded away and the public lost interest.

When the case for human space exploration is made - or indeed any space travel - one point I often here is ‘aren’t there other priorities? Why should we be spending money on this?’

My response would be that I don’t know how, as a global society, we’d get to a point where we’d say ‘we’ve done enough on earth - now for space’. It’s never going to work like that.

Although commercial vehicles may be the way to for low earth orbit and for bringing space travel to a wider (albeit very elite, but you’ve got to start somewhere) civilian audience, surely achievements like returning to the Moon or sending humans further needs governments to drive it.

The photo is one I took about 8 years ago of the moon through a telescope. The details you can see, even through a small, low-power scope, are extraordinary.

"What Van Allen had discovered were the bands of high-energy particles that were held in place by..."

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:36:37 +0100

“What Van Allen had discovered were the bands of high-energy particles that were held in place...

Within the same country, it seems Pembrokeshire couldn’t...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:08:38 +0100

Within the same country, it seems Pembrokeshire couldn’t be further away from London. It may appear on postcards from the region was much as Parliament does on those from the capital, but Tenby is the very visual definition of a picturesque seaside town. Even at the height of the tourist season, it hasn’t yet lost its charm.

wonderfulbritain:

Tenby Harbour. by curly42 on Flickr.

TfL Freedom Cycling Poster on Flickr.I only had to wait half a...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:30:37 +0100

TfL Freedom Cycling Poster on Flickr.

I only had to wait half a minute to get this shot - just had to get a cyclist in front of it.

TfL, quite rightly, don’t have a great reputation among cyclists in London. Appealing as the poster’s image is, it is a rather sunlit, rose-tinted view of using a bike around London.

woodendreams: (by Marco Dian)

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:38:45 +0100

woodendreams:

(by Marco Dian)

An audio slideshow of Sights and Sounds from a trip in Spring...

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:25:00 +0100

An audio slideshow of Sights and Sounds from a trip in Spring 2012 to Lithuania, including Vilnius and Trakai.

It consists of photos on my SLR and audio recorded as voice memos on my iPhone.

I’ve never been anywhere like Lithuania but loved it. The photos I got include the traditional landscape city-wide shots from a vantage point, others across a frozen lake and more, with the assistance of a borrowed fish-eye lens, in the quiet streets on a Sunday morning. It’s my favourite time to get photos in any city, but I’ve never quite been able to capture what I desire - the ability to show busy places devoid of people. But the narrow alleys and empty side-squares of Vilnius did just fine.

The full set of images are in a Flickr set.

archenland: North Sea Canyon (by froca)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:25:23 +0100

archenland:

North Sea Canyon (by froca)

woodendreams: (by Marco Dian)

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:23:27 +0100

woodendreams:

(by Marco Dian)