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*
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*
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in
― Robert Frost
(Sometimes)
This city is where I live, as to where my home is, that’s a moot point.
Random shots on a cold autumnal day in Salamanca.
A practice shoot for a portfolio I am planning, over on salamancastreets.
*All images made with Nikon D700 and Nikon AF-S 50mm 1.4G lens – a blast from the past*
Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand
Where trees are fallen there is grief
I love no leafless land
― A.E. Housman
At this time of year, I tend to drop my vinyl copy of The Doors’ Waiting for The Sun on the platter and listen to Summer’s Almost Gone.
It is 7 October, after all.
Except, on this specific 7 October, it was 31C, in the afternoon. Not particularly autumnal.
There are some signs, in the photos (below), of the change in season. Some.
In other news, I have signed up for NaNoWriMo, so, from 1 November, and until 30 November, I will be attempting to write 50,000 words, and hoping at least some of them will make sense we will see what we will see…
If you are interested, I have tried writing here before…
Musings, very sporadically, out in the midday sun.
Random thoughts (or poems if you stretch a point) from lockdown in Accra in April 2020, am thinking of publishing these.
My first sustained attempt to write anything, Dark Side Thursday.
WordPress Writing 101 back in April 2015.
Be seeing you…
*Images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8E FL ED lens*
tsuyu no yo wa
tsuyu no yo nagara
sari nagara
– Kobayashi Issa
*All images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8E FL ED lens*
be in love with your life, every detail of it
― Jack Kerouac
A series of images made in the garden with poor technique and a glass of wine (or two).
A tripod would have been advisable, but hey, sometimes it is what it is.
Also, some critters were involved, although none were harmed in the making of this post.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more― Lord Byron
Throughout April, Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team team hosted Discover Prompts.
My daily response involved an impromptu poem and a photo made (with one exception) in Accra where I am ‘locked down’ accompanied by an occasional quote or snatched lyric from a song.
You can read all my poems here.
Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.
now I been out in the desert, just doin’ my time
searchin’ through the dust, lookin’ for a sign– lyrics from further on (up the road), bruce springsteen
i
have
my
path
to
follow
my
home
i
carry
on
my
back
i
may
be
slow
but
my
path
is
clear
i
may
face
obstacles
but
they
slide
beneath
me
i
may
not
see
what
you
see
but
i
feel
it
all
*image made with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, reasons to be cheerful, accra, ghana*
My final contribution to the WordPress community initiative for the lockdown period in April 2020 – Discover Prompts Day Thirty: Grateful.
Thanks to Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate and lending us all their support and encouragement.
Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.
the juice of a carrot, the smile of a parrot
little drop of claret, anything that rocks– lyrics from reasons to be cheerful pt.3, ian dury and the blockheads
andy townend 