Tuesday 30 June 2009

Birmingham #11

Birmingham, architectural detail

Monday 29 June 2009

Birmingham #10

Birmingham, architectural detail

Sunday 28 June 2009

Birmingham #9

Birmingham, clock tower.

Saturday 27 June 2009

Friday 26 June 2009

Birmingham #7


Telephone boxes, Birmingham

Thursday 25 June 2009

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Birmingham #5

Birmingham Gas Hall, architectural detail

Tuesday 23 June 2009

Birmingham #4

Birmingham Library with reflection of Art Gallery

Monday 22 June 2009

Birmingham #3:Signs of the times

Street scene with "To Let" signs, Birmingham

Sunday 21 June 2009

Birmingham #2

The Iron Man (Antony Gormley), Birmingham

Saturday 20 June 2009

Birmingham #1

Statue of Queen Victoria, Birmingham


Note: In this sequence of photographs of Birmingham there should be a hat tip to John Moffat who was walking round the city with me (during the Celebrating Sanctuary Festival) and who has an eye for noticing interesting and photogenic architectural details.

Thanks, John.

Friday 19 June 2009

DPRK: Kongmin Tombs


Statues at Kongmin Tombs, near Kaesong, DPRK.

Thursday 18 June 2009

DPRK: Kongmin Tombs

Kongmin tombs, near Kaesong, DPRK.


Wednesday 17 June 2009

DPRK: Kaesong Children's Palace, Great Leader's Birthday Celebration

Children dancing for the Great Leader's Birthday at Kaesong Children's Palace.

Tuesday 16 June 2009

DPRK: Kaesong Children's Palace

Bicycles at Kaesong Children's Palace

Monday 15 June 2009

DPRK: Kaesong Children's Palace

Kaesong Children's Palace, a kind of Korean school of the performing arts.

Sunday 14 June 2009

Saturday 13 June 2009

DPRK: DMZ

Soldiers at the DMZ, DPRK. The line on the ground immediately behind the two soldiers to the rear marks the border with South Korea.

Friday 12 June 2009

DPRK: DMZ

DMZ. The back half of the blue huts and the building in the background are in South Korea.


Thursday 11 June 2009

DPRK: "Motorway services"

Motorway services en route from Pyongyang to Kaesong.

Wednesday 10 June 2009

Tuesday 9 June 2009

Monday 8 June 2009

DPRK: Revolutionary circus

DPRK: Revolutionary Circus. Note the ideologically sound backdrop.

Sunday 7 June 2009

Friday 5 June 2009

Thursday 4 June 2009

A Walk Round Bilston #4

Even scum on the surface of a canal can look quite photogenic.

Wednesday 3 June 2009

A Walk Round Bilston #3

Steps down to a disused railway track.

Tuesday 2 June 2009

A Walk Round Bilston #2

Just 100 yards from the main road.


Monday 1 June 2009

A Walk Round Bilston

Let's have a week off from the DPRK. We can always come back to it later. Here are some photographs of my home town. It's a very ordinary Midlands town called Bilston but if you look hard enough you can still find some very nice places to photograph.