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Winter Evening at Piccadilly
Piccadilly Circus in February 2009, from the pavement by the Underground entrance. The advertising dates it more than the coats do: TDK and Sanyo across the curve, both long gone from that wall now. The lights were still separate panels then, before the single wraparound screen replaced them in 2017. Nobody in the foreground is…
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A Granite Seat in Piccadilly Circus
The screens above Piccadilly Circus run all day and almost nobody in the crowd looks up at them, apart from tourists gawking at everything. I thought I had photos of Piccadilly Circus from before they upgraded their advertising screens. A quick search for “Piccadilly” in my Immich archive found the photos I took in 2009,…
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I should be free to feel
Two Met officers stood right in front of me, so I had to read the placard over their shoulders. Someone had hand-lettered it in the pink, white and blue of the trans flag, packing the words in tighter as the board ran out, and the last line vanishes behind a head anyway. At Trans+ Pride…
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Ventura Pier at Dusk
Moments after the sun had set, and the sky was filled with a lovely orange glow.
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No need for helmets in Athens
The lights were green for pedestrians to cross the road, but these two lads on a bike had already gone through the junction. The driver looked back and zoomed off down a side road.
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Fixing the fishing line
Sometimes the fishing line gets tangled and you need to stop what you’re doing and fix it.
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The Only One Standing
A woman stopped right in front of me while I was taking some long exposure shots of the passing crowd.
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Enamel Signs and Jugs
He didn’t seem too bothered about making any sales. Enjoying the day instead.
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LrC catalog maintenace and syncing
Terry White has two great videos on Lightroom Classic catalogs. Here’s one on dealing with large catalogs: and on syncing your catalog with the Adobe Cloud. Syncing to the cloud is great. It creates smart previews that sync and doesn’t take up any of your valuable 20GB of space of your account. You can even…
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Well Fed in Kraków
Two pigeons on the cobbles with a torn piece of bread roll just behind them, both walking away from it. In most cities bread on the ground is gone in seconds. Well-fed pigeons!