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.

*all images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8E ED VR lens*

catedrales y cigüeñas

Image | February 18, 2024February 18, 2024 | andy townend

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all
– Emily Dickinson

Taking advantage of some mid February sunshine I took a walk yesterday from the centre of Salamanca along the banks of the Tormes river to the Isla del Soto, these images are from the start of that walk and feature some of the beautiful architecture of Salamanca, the golden stone and the cigüeñas that seem to make every rooftop their own. More images from the banks of the river to follow…

room with a view, open plan accommodation for two to three families…

domes and antenna mast (those who know my history may recall my ‘thing’ about TV distribution…)

dark thoughts…

homecoming…

x marks the spot…

penthouse suite…

caught on the balcony…

you lookin’ at me?

stoned…

are you sitting comfortably? (note – this is through the locked gates of an interesting museum to which I will return…)

dome (and this time) dishes…

imposing…

hidden…

*All images made with Nikon D850 and AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm 1:2.8E FL ED VR lens, and some glorious February sunshine!*

JINGLE BELL ROCK / SALAMANCA MIX

Image | December 30, 2023February 18, 2024 | andy townend

dancin' and prancin' in jingle bell square    in the frosty air       giddy-up jingle horse,     pick up your feet  - lyrics from jingle bell rock, tarja

the incredible shrunken man…