extrapolating beauty

some things can't be photographed, yet the eye sometimes stimulates the optimistic mind to see more than may be true

from the corner of my eye, as i cycled to work down wandsworth high street at half past four this morning, i saw this australian guy skateboarding up the other side of the street with all the strength and grace of youth, carrying in front of him a huge bunch of white roses that gleamed unreally in the light of a huge full moon

i doubled back and he obliged me with this brief pose

as your eyes can see, he's not pretty or elegant, but the beauty of the moment brought tears of joy to my eyes

 

the sea in brighton at half past nine this morning ...

 

... was warm enough for a ten minute swim ...

 

... as if you were swimming in a tepid vegetable soup

 

the consolation of good architecture

if you only HAD to live in brighton, you might treat yourself to a modest gaffe in arundel terrace

 

i'm merely bearing witness ... no critique is possible from this exhausted mind

lots of sculptured sand at black rock, brighton kemptown

 

an intriguing doorway at the international maritime organization

 

dali outside county hall

 

the incredible hulk at saint thomas's

 

sir thomas clayton, behind saint thomas' hospital

 

the same text is translated in to latin on the other side

 

more cheese smugglers

 

nuclear family cricketing on box hill

 

no wonder my geography of london was confused ... this is at vauxhall & not where you might suppose

 

ace marketing in rottingdean

 

malmesbury young farmers go totally tropical to win the grand prize in the carnival procession

 

my brother, david lorenzo forward, welcoming visitors to the athelstan museum at malmesbury town hall

 

malmesbury, where the late blacksmith, frank sharpe used to work. a lovely man

 

gallopers on the green between hungerford bridge and county hall

 

westminster from lambeth

 

edenbridge high street roofscape

 

portland road south norwood ... a time warp next door to modern news

 

if only i hadn't been cycling home in such heavy traffic ...

because i might have photographed a lady driving a car whilst trying to scrape a label off the instep of a ( new-looking black velvet-textured high-heeled ) shoe with her teeth

the bell tower of saint mildred's church at tenterden

 

weathervane at saint mildred's church in tenterden