Portraits

Laos

Somerset Glamping

Towards Cheddar Gorge and in the far distance across the water - Wales

Wells Cathedral. Tiny town - giant cathedral.

Tent life. Glamping meant running water and a sink, but candle power only.

Early morning - Banjo and me, early risers.

Happy campers -candles, wine and enamel plates. Almost perfect combination

Fabulous dry stone wall walls everywhere.

Berlin Walls



Jewish Museum - image of Polish concentration camp

Berlin Wall - East Gallery

Lisa Smith's lobby



East German idealisesd workers art




AlexanderPlatz - Commercial centre of former East Berlin



Detail

Berlin Wall East Gallery - image of Palestine wall



Berlin Wall - image of Iraq Wall



Intact Berlin Wall

Berlin Wall - No Man's Land (The death zone) preserved



Berlin Wall - East Gallery

Yellow Berlin

Au revoir France

The boys in the kitchen opposite one floor up.

The pine cone, sy

The pine cone, symbol of Aix. Out our window

Our local square. A vino each evening.

Romance in Aix. At the end of our street.

Aix - POURQUIS?



The fountain of the four dolphin.

  I've noticed I have been studiously avoiding taking photos of the unattractive aspects of the cities and towns I visit. I ask myself why is this? Am I intent on only rembering this trip as a positive experience? Is one hard-wired to seek out the pleasing and the beautiful and to supress or ignore the balnd and ugly?



Church of La Madeleine

 A good photograph is not always of a pleasant subject. War photographers produce some arresting but beautifully composed images. Anyway I decided to "notice" some of the less attractive elements of Aix, having chosen not to document the vast industrial developments which occupy large tracts of land in the north of Italy on the fringes of the small and mostly attractive villages.



17th Century  Mansion (detail)

 







The medieval section of the Aix Cathedral

 


Aixathedral + Tour de France



Treviso - Inside Outside

 Treviso is a charming city of 80,000. They like to think og themselves as a little Venice. Luckily the real Venice is just down the highway so Treviso misses out on the mass tourist trade and is still authentic. Still there are two Trevisos. The rail line delineates the divide. I was staying on the wrong side of the tracks

 Everyone on the Veneto Plains rides pushbikes.

Marine biologists call this work - PNG

Julian Pepperell working hard in PNG.

The fruits of labour.













Julian actually working.
















My kind of work.

The rewards of other people's work.