Carnival!

Yay, it's that time of year again, when we get to wander the streets of Notting Hill with can of Red Stripe in hand oggling scantily clad young ladies - it's the Notting Hill Carnival, now ongoing since 1966 and pulling in the crowds as much as ever.



Which given views like this:


is hardly surprising, is it?

Love it.


Full set can be found Here. Warning: has a couple of NSFW images (i.e. boobs!)


For the lazy pervs amongst you, the ones that have bare boobies in are Here and Here. You'll need to be logged in to Flickr to see them as they're marked 'Moderate'

{Cue Kenny Everett voice} But it's all done in the best possible taste ;)

South Bank Walkies

With nothing else to do (or at least nothing else I could be bothered to do!), a little wander along London's South Bank seemed in order.

And saw these. They're to advertise the 'Walking in My Mind' exhibition by Yayoi Kusama at the SouthBank Centre. I might even go and see it now...

A couple more shots on my Flickr Photostream now .
Go see.

Chop Chop!

Impromptu Holidays...

Holidays!

and even better holdays you weren't expecting. I thought I'd use the week to go for a few day trips, relax a bit, and generally do sod all, but instead got talked into a very last minute holiday to Hastings instead. And I mean last minute - book one day, got the next.

A lovely week out, including the air show at Eastbourne.

Here's a nice panoramic view of Hastings old town from the East Cliff, where all the good pubs and live music is. (The town, that is, not the cliff)

Sampled a few, needless to say ;)

Back to Brum...

...for the first time since 1991, when I eventually graduated with my master's degree from Brum University.

My, how it's changed from the grotesque old Bull Ring that I remember from my mis-spent youth.

This is the obligatory shot of the Selfridges building everybody takes.

And yes, it rained.

Just like old times ;)

Gossomer

Another LFM outing organised by the lovely Ghene, which resulted in a lot of swearing due to the Dragonflies not sitting still, and purple fingers due to the amount of Blackberries stuffed along the way.

And chocolate mouse too!

What more do you want? ;)


More Here

Coward...

Another LPMG photogym - I hadn't been for ages to one of these. This time the topic was 'Creative Aspects' with the renowned Chris Coe as the instructor and critic.

Not a lot of inspiration on my part on the day, so I didn't enter the above shot.

Mainly because I was too cowardly ;)

Anyway, here's all the people paying rapt attention.


Except Ghene, of course ;)

Colour!

Carnival del Pueblo. London, August 2009

The Latin American celebration of the year!
Along with some reprobates from the LPMG, we all took some of the last batch of Kodachrome in our dusted-off film cameras to record the event for posterity.

And have a damned good time ourselves too. And this year, it didn't rain, and was lovely all day.

Yay!

Full (Digital) set Here