At London’s Waterloo station during the second part of this week there was a miniature landscape model advocating the many picturesque locations in America’s Sunshine State, colloquially known as ‘Minifornia’, and extolling the British to take road trips there. The landscape model has now gone back to ‘Minifornia’ – where […]
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I was watching a video where Physics Girl describes tricky spoons and how they shift reflections from the convex to the concave – in other words – how they flip the image. In the convex view one’s image is upside down, in the other the concave, one can be viewed […]
Apparently a lot people think so! Many have in fact expressed a huge disappointment with the new D6. What they are saying is the new camera is in no way an upgrade on the D5 and some have said its far worst than Nikon’s other FX cameras. Is that true? […]
Everyone probably thought I’d forgotten all about the München Looping… nah it was just the way things happened and its only now I decided I had some material to write a further post on the iconic portable roller coaster. I thought to myself I had better get a post out […]
This, a tribute to the final HST services on the East Coast Main Line after forty-one years. The last ever HST into King’s Cross arrived at 15.09pm on 21st December and large crowds are in attendance to see this historic moment. The train had come from Leeds where it had […]
Another post on that, erm… you know, new fangled London railway that I’ve loved writing about so much! Simply can’t get enough of it! TBH that’s not the case really. Although I had said I wasn’t doing it I decided at the very last minute to catch the first erm… […]
Staff at a London store spent weeks making these miniature versions of London’s iconic buildings and these are designed to be the centrepiece of a camera display. The idea is when people come into the store and test the new cameras they can train the lenses on the different models […]
The main part of the HST finale on 18th May took place in the late pm and early evening. My other post here, deals briefly with events earlier in the day. As I expected there was a huge turnout, I don’t really go in for these sort of events, but […]
The protests continue into their fourth day with protesters having as much of a hold on Central London as at the start of the week. Police have continued to attempt to remove people, however its currently making no difference. Tonight there was an attempt to clear Parliament Square and reinforcements […]
The Extinction Rebellion took over much of Central London, as well as other cities in the UK, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham and in a number of countries abroad. The activists’ aspirations is to hold out for at least two weeks, although the police have given warnings they should hold […]
Alvin Langdon Coburn was an American photographer who chose to settle in England, where much of his innovative work was done. A leading name during the early 20th Century, he was among the celebrity at the time and knew most famous people. He developed many radical approaches to photography. Its […]
A selection of fun pics from Winter Wonderland throughout November, December 2018 and into January 2019. Up til now I’ve written very little about Winter Wonderland, there have been so many other posts to write – there’s just three more days of Winter Wonderland at the time of writing. I […]