Formation cornering
The south end of London Bridge, seen about mid-October 2012. I rather like The Borough and its gloomy, railway-overshadowed market, with the trains from Charing Cross ever-booming overhead. Up above, the famous disruption-originating junction is no longer the bottleneck it once was. In fact measures to increase its capacity were in hand at the time of the photograph. It saddens me a little: without the disruption where is the notoriety? Where is its claim to fame? Does one lift up one's eyes and say, "Ah, up there is Borough Market Junction, where trains are not delayed?" Of course not. There isn't anything to remark upon and the world is duller and sadder. Yes, yes, I know ...I wouldn't say that if I was a regular Orpington commuter.
I'd aquired my Mamiya C220 back in the July and I think this was the first occasion when an Ordinary Person enjoined me in conversation about it. He had been snapping away nearby with an expensive-looking digital SLR. "You don't want to waste your time with those kiddie cameras", I said. I now wince at the recollection of this boorish remark, although I will say, in mitigation, that it was the defensive reaction of a "painfully shy" person to sudden exposure to a "social situation". I know, I know ...I ought to have grown out of that sort of thing at my age. He smiled politely and murmured something about having to get results to his client straight away. Oh dear, oh dear. My contacts with Other People have largely been made up of such incidents.
Formation cornering
The south end of London Bridge, seen about mid-October 2012. I rather like The Borough and its gloomy, railway-overshadowed market, with the trains from Charing Cross ever-booming overhead. Up above, the famous disruption-originating junction is no longer the bottleneck it once was. In fact measures to increase its capacity were in hand at the time of the photograph. It saddens me a little: without the disruption where is the notoriety? Where is its claim to fame? Does one lift up one's eyes and say, "Ah, up there is Borough Market Junction, where trains are not delayed?" Of course not. There isn't anything to remark upon and the world is duller and sadder. Yes, yes, I know ...I wouldn't say that if I was a regular Orpington commuter.
I'd aquired my Mamiya C220 back in the July and I think this was the first occasion when an Ordinary Person enjoined me in conversation about it. He had been snapping away nearby with an expensive-looking digital SLR. "You don't want to waste your time with those kiddie cameras", I said. I now wince at the recollection of this boorish remark, although I will say, in mitigation, that it was the defensive reaction of a "painfully shy" person to sudden exposure to a "social situation". I know, I know ...I ought to have grown out of that sort of thing at my age. He smiled politely and murmured something about having to get results to his client straight away. Oh dear, oh dear. My contacts with Other People have largely been made up of such incidents.