Monthly:February 2016
This Coldstream Guard was on duty at Buckingham Palace. You can tell he’s a Coldstream Guard from the pairs of buttons on his tunic. Apparently the Coldstream Guards are the oldest regiment in the British Army in continuous active service. Curiously now, given their role in protecting the Queen, they started as a Roundhead or Parliamentary regiment in the English civil war between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists. Having fought and won for the Parliamentarians, their founder and leader decided […]
Thought I’d channel my inner Cartier-Bresson and post a photo I took in Phnom-Penh that I call Boy with Jar and Stool. I’m the first to admit its not in perfect focus – it was a last minute grab shot with a manual focus camera, one of those moments that you catch perfectly, imperfectly, or not at all. I shot the image way back in ’92 so this little fellow would be around 28 now and in all probability has […]
The Galleries Lafayette dome is just something you don’t expect to see in a department store. I think only the French have the audacity to pull off this type of architecture in a store open to the masses. In it’s own way, Galleries Lafayette is a church to the religion of shopping. Crowds of people flow in and out like the ebb and flow of the tide. It’s like the building breathes in people, gains sustenance from the cash in […]
It’s been a while since any Mobil Regular flowed through these pumps. Their rusted, worn appearance contrasts with the spruced up former gas and service station behind them. Google Maps now lists this (at time of writing) as “Miss Vickie’s Emporium”. It was closed on the Sunday afternoon in March when I passed through.
