love is…our resistance

Image | May 2, 2026May 2, 2026 | andy townend

– is our secret safe tonight?
– and are we out of sight?
– or will our world come tumbling down?
– will they find our hiding place?
– is this our last embrace?
– or will the walls start caving in?

lyrics from resistance, muse

read my lips…

london, oh, oh lond(und)on(e)

contemp(t)lative

let’s face it…

(earnest and) whinny…

scroll on…

reach for…(what?)

no entry (caught in the lens)

red bus, long hair

fly me away…

exuberance…

stiff upper mane…

riding the wave…

resistance…

uprising…

best foot forward (into oblivion)

fast forward (to where?)

(a) bird on the head is worth more than a bird (in the hand)

nature will always prevail…inhale / exhale

honey…

ice cream, you (s)cream, we all (s)cream

*all images made with nikon z8 and af-s nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 E ED VR lens, and a whole lotta love…*

Undisclosed…

Image | February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 | andy townend

– i want to reconcile the violence in your heart
– i want to recognise your beauty is not just a mask
– i want to exorcise the demons from your past
– i want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart

– undisclosed desires, muse

musing

come up and see me some time

beach life

barge in

palmed

animals 😉

bussed

spook central

hangin’ on the telephone

wired

caught short

once upon a time

fruity

ice cold baby

freshly hand battered

wired (again)

discourse(d)

that spot (found)

bridged

dreaming (demon) spires

tower(ing bridge)

bridged

never ending

all d’ witches

broken

*all images made (in alignment) with nikon z8 and nikkor z 50mm f1.8s lens, and a side of love*

…and walk away / …y vete

Image | April 27, 2025April 27, 2025 | andy townend

 my sole obsession

   finally I feel it fading
    walk me home 

                              ...and walk away

sole obsession

   suddenly a different shading
    walk me home

                              ...and walk away

///

mi única obsesión

   por fin siento que se desvanece
    acompáñame a casa

                                         ...y vete

única obsesión

   de repente, un matiz diferente
    acompáñame a casa

                                         ...y vete

lyrics from /// letras de sole obsession, nation of language

*images made with nikon f5 and nikkor af-s 35mm f/1.4 g lens, ilford delta 400 film*

someone like you

Image | April 6, 2025April 6, 2025 | andy townend

nothing compares
no worries or cares
regrets and mistakes
they’re memories made
who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?
– someone like you, adele

Integration

Image | March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 | andy townend

if there’s anything more important than my ego around, i want it caught and shot now
― douglas adams, the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

i am
        all these things
                       growing
                             struggling
                                      learning

i am
  none of these things
                     (insert list here)

i am
  like you
         and you
               and you
                     and (yes),

             you

i am
  a
   work in progress
                  watch this
                           space
                               to learn


who
  i
  am

all bunched up inside

blowin’ in the wind

reach for me

what lies behind

overflowing with emotion

bursting out

call my name

phone home before it’s too late

palm me off

birthplace of hope

discarded memory

barking up the wrong tree

three energetic bodies

potted delights

*all images made with nikon d850 and nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 e ed vr lens, during a meditative walk along the (partially flooded) south bank of the thames on sunday, 30 march 2025*

London calling…

Image | December 26, 2024December 26, 2024 | andy townend

Now get this
London calling, yes, I was there too
And you know what they said? Well some of it was true
London calling at the top of the dial
And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?

Lyrics from London Calling, The Clash

Expect more to come.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and a New Year full of joy, light and love.

*all images made with fujifilm x100f*

of kerouac and wire

Image | June 8, 2024June 8, 2024 | andy townend

The eye should learn to listen before it looks
― Robert Frank

canned, and on the bench

a load of bull

don’t

feeling prickly?

dealing…

brittle

wired

blowing in the wind

toothsome

long and winding (but not yellow brick)

branching out

kerouac(ing)

*all images made on 1 January 2024, with Nikon F5, AF Nikkor 80-200mm 1:2.D ED lens and Ilford HP5 Plus film, negatives developed by Carmencita Film Lab, then scanned with Nikon D850 and ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter*

poppies and other (dry) things

Image | May 29, 2024May 29, 2024 | andy townend

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

I have neglected my photography (and writing), and you my readers (those who may still be here) for a while.

So, on a hot (thirty degrees) late Spring day, I took off along the local track that always has a story to tell, each season offering a new and different tale.

Today that tale was of desiccated vegetation, and poppies, just past their prime.