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back to basics
it's always good to be reminded of this kind of thing
Big Pete's Monster Truck Show
these trucks were amazing. click on the blob below to watch a slide show (click once then watch the show or click here)
(does this flickr show thing work ok ? let me know what you prefer !)
action intercepted
this was a parked car with a bit of a noddy photoshop working for interest. not sure if it entirely works. i probably won't try and recreate an actual version of it whizzing along the street. unless i'm down a manhole
transports
bikes and bikes and buses and trains
plane !
the view from my office window
not such a long vehicle
huw sent me this excellent picture of a 'long vehicle'
where do all the buses go ?
i can tell you. they all get trapped on this round about and go round and round and round.
pretend
can you see what's going on here ? it's quite a famous london landmark to those who know about it ?
temporary
life is temporary. so is skateboard (as seen here)
all destination ticket
i like the idea of a ticket to a wide range of destinations. just buy and go. anywhere
skating
these skates were a christmas present for kezia last year. kezia reminded herself of them this christmas and i spent a couple of hours dragging her around yesterday morning in the chilly coldness. i didn't take my camera (as i had my hands busy dragging her about). whilst we were out 8 red kites were out enjoying the wind and sweeping low over out heads dramatically.
transport disaster
this kind of thing can happen. and obviously has.
cyclist crossing
this was quite literally shot from the hip with my slr as i ran across the road to avoid being run over by cars. (lots of running). i was quite pleased with the results seeing as i wasn't even looking.
i should look less more often.
what the future could have been
an eastern european car outside senate house. big brother would have had a field day.
chopper
probably looking for some chopper parking
wheel
anyone guess what this is ? 20pence cash in it for you.
click for big
useless unicycle photo
i didn't catch the unicyclist commuter, but the photo came out nicely anyway.
blue pew car
a blue car left on a pew in church last sunday
too high divert - a drugs warning
(not the best photo ever, but if you click on it you can just about read what it says)
speed control
this is the speed control on the HMS Warrior. It features the speed 'Faster' in 4 places which is interesting. Especially, as surely sometimes 'faster' will actually be 'slower'. or perhaps it never slowed down ?
(camerists note: apologies for the strange lighting in this picture - it's balanced correctly for the sunlight which is coming down the stairs in the background)
broken car
broken car outside tony blair's new house
skate board hiding in a tree
can you spot it ?
utah star car
Julie sent me this photo with this email:
"I took this picture this morning while leaving the dentist's office. I think I am getting better at finding odd things all over the place. I think I would have taken a better picture if I was a few feet to the right but I was in my car at the time with another car pulling out of a parking spot and was about to come behind me. You can use this picture if you want. It's a recent ambition of mine (for the past 7 or 8 months) to take a picture I thought was good enough to send to you, and one that you would use. If this one isn't good enough I will just keep trying."
It took me a while to realise why this is such a fantastic picture. it's worth studying. julie took in the picture in Utah, USA so you UK drivers will have to thing the other way round.
i can't say i recommend moving car based photography (if you are driving at the same time) but julie's done a good job !
despite what it says, that is not a bike
they are fooling no one with their sign saying 'bike'.
off the rails
it's a train carriage going along the road outside my office. fancy that.
buses on the pavement ?
yikes - buses on the pavement make pedestrians dive perhaps ?
crazy transport
this was a mad train thing at a makeshift park in a farm that we went to over the summer.
it was basically some feed barrels with a hole cut at the top, and a plastic garden chair wedged in. the whole thngs was plopped on to some trailer type thing and pulled by a golf trolley
there was no suspension so our poor children were shaked to pieces (and loved it so much then went on twice). that cow on the front isn't fooling anyone.
little and large
large campervan with a teeny weeny smart car on the back
little and large
neither of these cars are my car, but i did think they looked like one was a squashed version of the other.
my little pony smart car
Russell recently wrote a piece on how customisation of cars is not encouraged and i fully agree (having recently purchased a blackgeneric mass market commuting vehicle)
the one exception to this rule seems to be Smart cars which are very cool and very customisable, even without fancy paint jobs. if it wasn't for the motorway parts of my journey i would have considered getting one myself.
could you imagine me in a little funkypancake car on the way to work ?
olympic airways
i travelled to athens with Olympic Airways. The plane was quite grubby and old and i don't think i'd use them again.
A good indicator of their quality was their toilet which was piled up with toilet paper on a shelf.
and on the way back they had a whole wall of various papers
although they obviously were trying to bring some order to the situation
another thing about olmpic airlines was their life-jackets, which i couldn't work out at all from their demonstration. it had extra straps all over the place.
but how about this curiousity. definately one to click for largeness.
the captain looks pleased with himself as he has worked out how to put his jacket on, whilst the lady on the top left can't find her jacket. meanwhile the plane itself has crashed in to the sea and a fireball is floating away (actually, the fireball looked more like the last supper when you could see it in more detail)
we can only guess what the picture on the bottom left of this is
today is turning in to a bit of a rant - sorry about that.
