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Catching up with 2009:52

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

I got totally behind with my 52 photos project and was about to give it up as a bad job, but then I finished all my exams and suddenly felt able to pick it up again. So, here are the latest photos. All taken within a few days of each other, but who cares?

Greenfinch at the feeder: as I sat in the garden revising the other day, the birds didn’t seem too bothered by me, so I got a couple of decent shots of them.

21/52: 04/06/09 [Feed me!]

Feed me! There’s a rather loud great tit family who pass by every so often. The two young ones demand to be fed by excitedly flapping their wings and twittering away.

22/52: 06/06/09 [Tickets secured!]

Tickets secured! I’ve got tickets to go and see the Nunkie Theatre Company’s production of M.R. James’ “Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad” at Great Livermere Church, Suffolk. James grew up in Livermere and his father was vicar at the church, so you don’t get much more of a homecoming gig than this.
23/52: 06/06/09 [Front room #1]

Front room #1. We got the decorators in to finish the house off as we were advancing at a snail’s pace ourselves. They’ve made a really good job of it. This is the front room — now we’ve got to move all the furniture and books back in.

18/52 and 19/52

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

My weekly photo project has taken a bit of a bash recently due to various study and other commitments. To be honest I lost count of where I’d got, so here are two I took today. The first is of Bankside by the Tate Modern, using the zoom technique thing and the second was taken inside the Tate. Despite it looking like a photo I took entirely by accident, I did actually mean to take it. Not sure if I really like it, but I do like the way the word “Alchemy” seems to jump out.

19/52: 09/05/09 [Tate Modern Alchemy]

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Sunday, April 19th, 2009

I went for a lovely walk from Dorking to Reigate yesterday. It was a nice break from revision, or more specifically worrying about how little revision I’ve done for my impending exam.

This was taken during the lunch break — the “suggested lunchtime stop”, the Dolphin Inn, can be seen in the background, to the left of the phone box.

The phone box is the main focus of this photo. Partly because it seemed a little incongruous in such a pretty village and partly because I realised that old-style red phone boxes are becoming rarer to find. The ones in London are quite often in a parlous state and sometimes are treated as bins and / or toilets.