try to remember

There is a perfectly lovely café in the common, and today it was quite nice to sit outside. There was the slight end-of-summer early evening chill in the air accompanied by a nice breeze. Bowlers dressed in spiffy whites were playing on the perfectly manicured green below the patio where I sat with the dog and had a coffee. [Why is it that so many British sports require one to dress all in white? Tennis, cricket, bowling are three that come to mind, and they also are played (or can be played) on a green. The contrast of white on green now makes me think "summer". I tried to take some photos with my phone, but they came out a bit wonky so I made them all arty and stark looking with photoshop.]

Sometimes it is impossible for me to shut out every conversation going on around me in a café. At least when I'm sitting outside I don't have to tune out the tunes that filter through the air as well. So I was wise and brought my iPod with me this time, which I don't use that often for a number of reasons. For one thing it is too loud to use headphones in the tube, the decibel levels of the trains drown out the music. And if I listen for more than a few hours my ears ring for a day afterward, which can be relieved a bit by not using the earbuds and using regular headphones instead. Plus I like to be aware of my surroundings, I feel safer. But what a difference a spot of music can make at this café, whose location I love, but the screaming children, people loudly yapping away on mobiles and cackling gossips I can do without. So I relaxed with the Postal Service and grooved with the Black Eyed Peas while watching the world go by. Or bowl by.

towers reflection

I have come to the conclusion that most of my photography is graphical rather than story-based. I know that it may not be as exciting as other kinds of photography, but I really enjoy doing it so I am going to continue doing it, even if I bore the crap out of everyone else. If you click on the above photo you can see a few photos I have taken recently. They almost verge on the abstract, but not quite.

Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time, I guess I just haven't had anything to say or seen anything I wanted to photograph. I have a new solution for those of you (if indeed there are still any left, I know everyone has unlinked me from their sites!) who are tired of showing up here and not seeing anything new. I am going to set up an email notification list, so if you would like to get a notice every time this page is updated with shiny new stuff, please send me your email address. Of course I will not use it for any other purpose. And don't worry about getting tons of mail either, as I don't post very often!

Also, hopefully when I move this site to a new server (soonish) I will clean out all the comment spam and perhaps update moveable type too. But who knows maybe I won't! I am tired of the colour scheme here, but as long as it works at the moment is good enough for me.