Walking through town early one morning I saw these on a doorstep and wondered about the story that lay behind them.
Category Archives: Photography
Borderland
On a cold November day, a reminder of high Summer.
Just another cat picture
Larger version here.
How golf ought to be
Having been brought up in Ireland, I love links (i.e. sandy, windswept, seaside) golf courses. I particularly like the way these courses can humble even golf’s most prominent billionaires whenever a major championship is held on one.
This is the view from the fifth tee at Sheringham, a lovely links course in North Norfolk.
“Balliol College, Cambridge”
This is the old Spillers flour mill next to Cambridge station. The buildings around it have been razed for housing ‘development’ — ie hideous apartment blocks. But the mill itself is a listed building & so the developers have to keep it. The caption comes from a speech Ronald Knox made at the Cambridge Union, when he referred to the building as “Balliol College, Cambridge” — a jibe at Oxford’s most intellectually distinguished – but architecturally jumbled – college.
The empty seat
November mist
Morning
The decisive… er, embarrassing moment
Today’s Irish Times has an extraordinary photograph on its front page. It shows Ajai Chopra, the Deputy Director of the European Department of the IMF, passing a beggar on his way to the Irish Central Bank in Dublin. Great photograph by Peter Morrison of AP.
Thought experiments
Fellow symposium members, in reflective mood.