St Lukes, EC1

This is a set of photos I've taken for 'The Way We See It'.Eh? The what...

TWWSI is a weird London based photography project to which absolutely anyone can contribute to. Every couple of weeks the site lists a London street or place and all you have to do is go there and snap it! Simple as!

The current one is St Luke's in EC1. This is what they tell you:

"Another Hawksmoor this week - in fact actually one of his Churches. This one brings back memories for me of my time spent working in the area. When we say it's a Hawksmoor church actually it's only the obelisk spire and it's base that's by him. The rest is by John James.

For me one of it's most interesting tombs belongs to William Caslon one of the first type founders - who are still in business. In fact I've recently bought some type from them!

The building fell into disrepair and the roof became unsafe and was removed, this even though it was Grade I listed. Finally sense was seen and the building restored and made into a concert hall, rehearsal and recording space.

Have fun!"

And so I did!

I used to take part in it, before I had a computer, from July 2005 to early 2006; but the person who was loading/saving my snaps couldn't continue.

Now I've worked out how to add photos onto here I've decided to join in again. You're supposed to submit your own photos, but I'm not ready to learn how to do that yet, so I'm hoping that the site owner will be able to pick some from here....

I actually enjoy that, if truth be known, because I'm not submitting them personally, so it's a surprise to see which ones are chosen.

I visited two places today, the next I will post in a few days time. The first lot are below, and I must say I'd forgotten how much fun it was taking them. Sniffing out snaps, and missing ones I'd seen in my head, but the moment then goes! The ones I'm publishing here are about half of what I took for St Lukes, the rest I've deleted, as either too similar, or just not working out.

Enjoy-hopefully!

Advertising from Tallinn, Estonia

This was from July 2007. It caught my eye simply because cigarette advertising is no longer allowed in England, and the style od advertisment was different to our billboards.

Splat!

Dinner is served!

Paris photo museum

Whenever I'm in Paris I try to visit this musem, I love the Photographers Gallery, tucked in a sidestreet off of Charing Cross Road, & I wish we could have one as good as the French one over here. The London gallery is raising funds to be relocated, and will be much bigger in a few years time, Yay!!

Looking at photographs is my favourite form of art, thought I'm not art critic! But I do enjoy looking at snaps in galleries & museums. The great thing about these in Paris & London, & I presume elsewhere, is that they are all temporary exhibitions, so every time you go to visit there's something new to see.

A row of houses

This is from Amersham, in Buckinghamshire.
Something about them must have appealed to me when I took
the picture.
But looking at it now I have no idea what!

Twins!

The town of Chesham, In Buckinghamshire, twinned with
Friedrichdsorf, in Germany.
This mosaic, in Chesham, celebrates their realtionship.

Stitched up!

These posters were on a number of lamposts on the main road
from Amersham to Chesham, when I was walking between the two
towns last September.
Looka like someone got stitched up for their birthday!

Occupation Museum, Tallinn

I visited the Museum of Occupations when I was in Tallinn, in July 2007.

It was the only museum I visited. I'm looking forward to going back in a couple of months time, so I can see a lot more of them.

I've actually forgotten the relevance of many of them. But one thing I did learn was about the Forest Brothers, who I had never heard of before.

The pictures were from a temporary display, I think, about old Soviet gulags.

I also took a couple of snaps of old banners, which I think are superb.

And the old statues were relics of the Soviet occupation, and were, fittingly, in the basement, by the toilets!