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Cheow Lan Lake (Rajjaprabha Dam Reservoir) is in Khao Sok National Park in Surat Thani Province of Thailand. An 185 square kilometre artificial lake inaugurated in 1987, it is an amazing source of wildlife. It featured in the recent BBC4 Thailand: Earth's Tropical Paradise series.
Had the pleasure of staying there in December 2019 - not sure when I will get the opportunity to return!
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I watched a programme on BBC4 'The Art of Japanese Life' which in turn inspired me to create this image using an old photo Road to Enlightenment and some creative license.
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Chapter Two, Despite disadvantage of prison, Nicolas Cage, he learn Spanish, learn rotated-onto-head push up aerobic, become friend of minority, and is psychiactrist to own daughter! Is page turner!
Stopped off in Ditchling on our way home, having seen that BBC4 doc on Eric Gill....not much to see as the museum was closed.
Tonight sees the latest colourised classic Doctor Who story get its debut on BBC4 at 9pm tonight. This time it’s Patrick Troughton’s swansong, The War Games. Things get so bad he has to beg for help from The Time Lords. Will they forgive his past transgressions, or has his time run out?
Today (2nd June 2007) is the 150th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar.
These are the opening bars of Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op.47 – possibly the greatest piece in all English string writing. For anyone with an interest in Elgar, I recommend the marvellous Elgar film made for the BBC’s ‘Monitor’ series by Ken Russell in 1962 (a period piece in itself, in black and white). With the Intro and Allegro featuring strongly, it sensitively and evocatively portrays the composer’s life and music. It is being broadcast in the UK today at 7.05pm on BBC4 television.
After almost a four-week break from Flickr, which included a wonderful fortnight’s holiday in Somerset/Dorset and then Brecon... Billy’s back! I’m nicely relaxed after having explored new places in the South, seeing some stunningly-good gigs at Brecon Jazz, enjoying tremendous Summer weather – and, of course, building a photographic collection drawn from our travels.
Now that we’re unpacked, lawns mowed and car washed (and before I go back to work tomorrow), I just need to light the candles, pop open the Shiraz and watch this evening’s live Prom on BBC4. Bliss! (excuse the musical pun!)
Holidays, eh? Just 50 weeks ‘til the next one! Ha!
BITH'S JUKEBOX #7
THE MARLEY BROTHERS "WELCOME TO JAMROCK"
Woo!Hoo! It's Glastonbury weekend. BBC tv's coverage just gets bigger and bigger, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBCiPlayer and more. Every year it's time to line up the wine, sofa down and see who steals the show. Names from the past read like the soundtrack to my life, Orbital, Manu Chao (who quite correctly refused to come on stage until he had finished watching the World Cup Final), Moloko, The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack. Last year it was The Marley Brothers who flew me to the sky. Several Marleys came together on stage to heal differences, tribute their father and celebrate Robert Nesta as one of the greatest influences on world music there has ever been. And it was just brilliant to see Bob's young grandson jumping around stage waving his rasta flag!
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Like many I am sure, I have been watching the BBC4 Great British Photography Challenge….it struck me that I have lost some of the variety in what I shoot compared to when I started with a camera when I would shoot anything and everything. Some of this is down to time and partly down to focussing on one genre, in my case landscapes, to really try and hone my skills in the limited free time I have to spend on photography.
I went to Bristol last night to get a shot of the Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Cumberland Basin and whilst there had a look around the ‘urban’ landscape and tried to get some shots that captured the feel of the place. It wasn’t wildly out of my comfort zone like shooting fashion or anything but enough to make me think and I enjoyed it which is what photography is about.
This shot is a view of the Cumberland Basin Swing Bridge from the harbourside.
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Went to see the Dougie Wallace exhibition at Project Space, Bermondsey Street, London SE1. I already have 2 of his photo books, Harrodsburg and Well Heeled and watched the BBC4 documentary piece on him and his work www.dougiewallace.com
Amazing what garden centres stock. Gifts for people who love their gardens. Amongst the welly-boot pulls, sundials, welly socks that stay put, tropical orchids and dracaena (the plant of the week) a book of true crimes.
Beginning 13 March on BBC4 a 3-part documentary about Ruth Ellis for which I am a consultant and also making an appearance....http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2018/11/ruth-ellis-1
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Apple G650 departing. My shot of this taxiing out featured on BBC4's Planespotting Live tonight.
Two of the cast from Nottingham New Theatre's production of 'Through the Looking Glass' at this year's Edinburgh Fringe. Mind you, they actually tend to remind me of a couple of villainous sidekicks from the old Adam West 'Batman' series, which good old BBC4 have just started repeating. :-)
With its imminent return to steam and running in at the GCR I thought I would revisit 2008 when Tornado first ran to Leicester still in grey primer.
I took the 13.35 Covenantor's Special from Quorn - the culmination of 10 years as a member of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust - www.a1steam.com - and A1 4-6-2 60163 Tornado made a fine sight running round at Leicester North. After such a poor summer the sun shone all day on this great event.
The BBC were filming the day's events for a programme on BBC4 .
The Churchill Factor by Boris Johnson. My family and friends know of my fascination with Winston Churchill. (I have over 140 books on Churchill) Thus, this book by current British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was bought for me by my daughter (fortunately at a discount). It is more of a rant by a man who whilst admiring Churchill wishes to be favourably compared with him. With odd colloquialisms for which Johnson has an affection and even Monty Python references (?), it is an unusual portrait of a man considered to be an historical giant. Would I recommend it? Not particularly unless you are a fan of Johnson. It was written in 2014 well before he became PM. Churchill's official biographer Sir Martin Gilbert died in 2015; hopefully he did not have time to read this self indulgent diatribe before he died. Dominic Sandford, one of Britain's most respected historians, in his review of this book, said it was to history what Doctor Who is to a BBC4 documentary.
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RT @FujiInstaxUK: Now THIS is how you #instax. @DrSamWillis documented his trip along #TheSilkRoad for his BBC4 documentary t.co/haMwoTGrfU via Twitter twitter.com/DrSamWillis
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Cockfosters Underground Station, London, England
Another image from my photo walk last week, I was trying to visit a couple of the Charles Holden designed stations in the freezing cold I might add :-) but it was worth it.
I had never been to Cockfosters Underground station so I am always quite looking forward to what I will find and be able to photograph. This is the underpass that goes under the main road that allows you to exit and enter the station. I would have liked to had taken the image further back but there was alot of water damage on one of the corners of the tiles which was a right shame as this station was only refurbished few years ago but no one has fixed it.
I am really becoming a massive fan of Charles Holden and his designs, I find myself now trying to look for his other work around on the network and around the country as it seems he did the library in Bristol too. This station has elements of Gants Hill Underground station in parts and also has elements from other stations on the Piccadilly line however it doesn't have the grandeur of the other stations but is still a very cool station. I plan to visit its similar designed cousin on the other end of the line, Uxbridge at some point.
You maybe asking why I called this image Metroland. Well not long after this image when I got home there was a program on BBC4 I think called Metroland which was narrated by John Betjeman, it was quite an old program but it was him celebrating the way these suburban stations popping up on the outskirts of London. He was an interesting character and really like some of his poems that he wrote. He also was a big influence in saving St Pancras International station in the 60s from demolition so I suppose this image is my tribute to him! :-).
I am going to try and catchup with your photostream today. Oh also I have had some excellent news about couple of my images but I am not sure that I can divulge it quite yet what it is so will tell you in due course so keep an eye out.
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Cockfosters is a London Underground station on the Piccadilly Line for which it is the northern terminus. The station is located on Cockfosters Road (A111) approximately 9 miles from central London and serves Cockfosters in the London Borough of Barnet although it is actually located a short distance across the borough boundary in the neighbouring London Borough of Enfield. The station is in Travelcard Zone 5 and the next station south-east is Oakwood.
The station opened on 31 July 1933, the last of the stations on the extension of the line from Finsbury Park to do so and four months after Oakwood station (then called Enfield West) opened. Prior to its opening, "Trent Park" and "Cock Fosters" (an early spelling of the area's name) were suggested as alternative station names. The original site hoarding displayed the name as a single word.
The station was designed by Charles Holden in a modern European style using brick, glass and reinforced concrete. Compared with the other new stations Holden designed for the extension, Cockfosters' street buildings are modest in scale, lacking the mass of Oakwood or Arnos Grove or the avant-garde flourish of Southgate. Holden's early design sketches show the station with two towers.[5] The most striking feature of the station is the tall concrete and glass trainshed roof and platform canopies which are supported by portal frames of narrow blade-like concrete columns and beams rising from the platforms and spanning across the tracks. The trainshed roof constructed at Uxbridge in 1937-38 was built to a similar design. Cockfosters station is a Grade II listed building.
The station has three tracks with platforms number 1 to 4; the centre track being served from both sides by platforms 2 and 3. This is an example of the so-called Spanish solution. Most northbound Piccadilly trains terminate here although some terminate at Oakwood or Arnos Grove, particularly in peak hours or in the evenings. Cockfosters depot is located between Oakwood and Cockfosters and trains can access or leave it from either direction.
The weather has gone off here and doesn't encourage photos and I'm rather tired (I love The Bridge but watching 4 hour long sessions on BBC4 until 1am takes it out of me!) So, it's just a simple snap for today.
An unknown location for today's image from the wonderful Stereo Pairs Collection. A waterway divided by a causeway/dam with a lock at the far side apparently to assist in navigation. Where is it and what does it look like today?
Incidentally just last evening on BBC4 I saw a documentary recreating the exploration of the Grand Canyon in 1869 where one of the participants made similar stereo pairs images. Fascinating!
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1860-1883
NLI Ref: STP_2225
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Cromford Mills is the centrepiece of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Derwent Valley Mills - once the home of the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill, developed by Richard Arkwright in 1771 in Cromford, Derbyshire, England. The mill structure is classified as a Grade I listed building, it was first classified in June 1950. The multi-use venue is also home to shops, galleries, restaurants and cafes.
The camera crew on the right of the picture, were making a documentary for BBC4 to be shown later this year, (2018).
A couple of Saturdays ago, as Kev and I vegetated in our living room recovering from the excesses of the previous night, an episode of the Swedish detective drama Wallander began on BBC4. I was curious, but thought that there was no way I had the mental energy to sit through something with subtitles. It turned out to be gripping, though, and we both watched it all the way through.
I did some reading about the series, based on novels by Henning Mankell and remade by the BBC starring Kenneth Branagh. I've been watching the British remakes, and they are even better than the original. It may be the best shot television show I've ever seen, not afraid to linger on a shot for more than a few seconds, which most TV shows don't dare do in case the viewer gets bored and changes the channel. And what shots they are. Looks aside, there's real substance, too. Branagh is outstanding as Wallander who, like a lot of great fictional detectives, is a dark, sensitive and troubled man, an existentialist and a humanist. Give it a watch if you can, here's a link to the wonderfully graphic opening credits.
"I don't really think that there is a bigger picture. This is where we live: here, now. These are our lives, and they're fragile and precarious and miraculous and... all we have."
- Kurt Wallander, Firewall
Glasgow, 2009.
Middleton in Teesdale , County Durham , UK .
Swaledale tup sale .
Watched this chap on tv the other night in BBC4's Addicted to sheep .
The academic and intellectual guru of our Sodality, Dr Janis Rawdyke, is staying with me down at Lyndon Towers this weekend. In fact, she will be joining me in the marital boudoir for the duration of her visit. My poor hubby will be pushed out!
Janis, as Professor of Gender Studies at the University of the West Midlands, is doing amazing and pioneering work on the theory and practice of Female Supremacy. You have probably all seen her TV show about the Sodality Ladies in America, which was recently on BBC4 (or was it Channel 4 - I get confused!!).
Janis is now working on a new book about the long-term effects of repeated exposure to XXXXX pornography on the male psyche. Her conclusion is that it makes most males more pliable and subservient to Women over time - and thus is a key weapon in our battle for Gender Supremacy.
Naturally, our Sodality Ladies are more than happy to be the foot soldiers in Janis's sexy campaign for male hearts and minds!!
And Dr Rawdyke definitely enjoys watching us all in XXXXX action!!
Love and Kisses to All!!
Toodle Pip!
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Photo from the telly - great documentary on BBC4 about Tutankhamen
youtu.be/Cv6tuzHUuuk - The Bangles
Seen a couple of really good photography things just recently. While in Liverpool saw an exhibition that offers a window on the Weimar republic, with the photographs of August Sander, an interesting portrait project, especially given the context of the time. And the painting and prints of Otto Dix, really great, many of which I'd not seen before.
On BBC4 there's a fantastic documentary on the photographs of Philip Larkin, sickeningly as well as being one of our great poets, he was skilled with a great eye as a photographer, many of the images are of a street/documentary bent. On the web only his self portraits seem to get reproduced, although these have the same glum accuracy as his written work.
Both are well worth a look, if you get the chance.