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Cathedral Plaza, at the south end of High Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom. Sunday 6th March 2022, at around 2pm to 4pm.
About the photograph.
The No to War in Ukraine protest was arranged by the Worcester Trades Union Council and took place in Worcester on Sunday 6th March 2022.
It was happening just a stone’s throw from the Knife Angel sculpture which was on tour around the United Kingdom, and at that time, was in Worcester.
In the photographs, this lady was taking photos of the Knife Angel, and as you can see in the background in one of the photos, a crowd of people attending the protest.
She is wearing a leopard print faux fur coat, with blue jeans tucked into knee-length boots.
Notice that she’s wearing gloves on her left hand, but her right hand is bare, as she needed to operate her Apple iPhone.
The last time I attended a protest to try to do some photojournalism kind of photography, was back in 1987-89 during my college days.
Since then, I had been trying to get a job in photography or graphic design. Got married, started having kids, then got a divorce and became a very busy single parent and full-time carer. Now that my kids are older and left home, I’m free and independent, so I decided to try to get back into doing photography. I need to refresh my skills anyway.
In the first week of March, 2022, I heard that there was a planned protest in Worcester which is the nearest city, so the night before, I charged up my Nikon’s batteries, formatted the memory cards to make sure I have plenty of storage space left for more photos, and made sure my photography kit bag is ready.
On the afternoon of Sunday, I drove to Worcester, parked my car at the car park, and walked over to the Cathedral Plaza, which is where the protests were happening.
There was around about between 50 to 75 people, or something like that, maybe up to a hundred. The protest was really more like a Speaker’s Corner kind of protest, with many people just standing around, rather than a march. It wasn’t much of a protest, but then again, it is because Worcester is a small city compared to other major cities where protests were taking part on massive scale.
I tried my best to do a photo-journalism kind of photography, I went around the crowd and took as many photos as I could. Those are just the few good photos I could find out of the approximately 400 photos I managed to take.
About the overall subject.
About the protest.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine started on the 24th of February 2022, and in a short space of time, many Europeans, Americans, mostly and mainly anyone of “Western” lifestyle, people living in free countries, with freedom of speech, of choice, of votes, many of them started taking to streets to protest against the Russian invasion.
There were so many signs in various languages, often advising that Russia should leave Ukraine, stop the war, Putin being a war criminal, and so on.
This protest that I attended to take the photos, was organised by the Worcester Trades Union Council, and was listed on the Stop the War Coalition website, under the No to War in Ukraine protests section. This was just one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protests happening all around the world on Sunday 6th March, in respond to President Putin‘s decision to attack Ukraine.
About the Knife Angel.
The Knife Angel is a 27 feet tall structure, it is a sculpture of a weeping angel, and was made with 100,000 various knives. The knives were mainly anonymously donated and handed in through knife banks, with some knives seized by the police.
The sculpture was created to highlight the knife crime in the United Kingdom, and try to educate young people of the behaviour.
When the structure was completed in 2018, it began a nationwide tour around the UK, often on display in a city for a month, before moved to another city for another month.
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at Worcester.
Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African-born American entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and established SpaceX, a launch vehicle and spaceship manufacturer. He was also one of the original major investors in and the CEO of Tesla, an electric car company.
The memorial at Zaventem Airport in Brussels at the police cordon. Unfortunately, the storm that day had started to blow the flowers across the road, making it all look sadder than ever.
A bridge in a relatively deserted Manchester after the terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert.
Better view: On Black
I was very happy to see this old man reading the daily news paper early in the morning. Not to appreciate his ability to read (Literacy) but for his inquisitiveness in knowing about the current affairs. I wonder how many of us have that curiosity.
Looking at him I had a strange question in my mind – "Are we in a democratic system?"
How can justify we in a democratic system where:
Around 30% of the population is uneducated
Around 50% of ppl don't know what democracy is and whatz their role in it.
Around 20% of the educated don't vote at all thinking anyways it doesn't matter.
With our nation gearing up for the general elections next year:
How many of us have our names registered in the voter list?
How many of we are inquisitive in knowing the current affairs?
How many of us really know who our ministry consists of and how worthy they are?
How many of us do really care what decisions the government is taking and why?
just few question to think on :) after all we make the govt. and if it fails then its only because of us.
>>The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
>>Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris
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Watching the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, with my Sunday Times guide, on a special bank holiday Monday.
The "bearer party" did an amazing job, what a responsibility.
at home 19.09.2022
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Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
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Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
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Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
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2017.8– Replaced
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Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
Apparently 3 in every 100 pound coins are fake... Wonder if any of these are?
www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2012/apr/02/how-to-spot-fak...
Current affairs, ODC: Glass Menagerie: "How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
"For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles,
Laura -- and so goodbye...."
~ From The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
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The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath, moving to its current premises in 1989. Since its inception, Lilliput has published over 400 titles, ranging from art and architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, to essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry.
രാവിലെ എഴുന്നേറ്റ് ഉടനെ പ്രതിജ്ഞയും ഉണ്ടാവും #icuchalu #currentaffairs Credits: Binish George ©ICU , ift.tt/2gZ8Vma
From the archive… in August 1973, I was fortunate enough to attend four sessions of the Watergate Hearings at the Capitol in Washington DC. This history in the making led to the introduction of impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, and his eventual resignation.
Here’s my photo of Senator Sam Ervin (left), chairman of the Committee, consulting a Bible with Committee Chief Counsel Samuel Dash. (Ervin was very fond of delivering both biblical and homespun quotations.) In the background, left, is Senator Lowell Weicker, who later became Governor of Connecticut.
Well, Ervin may have enjoyed homespun philosophy, but he was an astute lawyer with a very sharp mind. As well as Nixon in 1974, his other notable scalp was Senator Joseph McCarthy 20 years earlier.
On the right is my media pass to the Watergate hearings when I worked in current affairs television – it's now a valued souvenir of a past life.
File: 2020001-0001
Somewhere in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Thursday 7th May 2020, at 8pm.
Published with the parent’s permissions.
Notice: Geotags are removed, and the exact location will not be mentioned, for privacy and safety.
About this photograph.
During the Clap for Our Carers gesture on Thursday evening, those two girls and their family stepped outside, but instead of clapping, they showed their support for the NHS (National Health Service) with a live music performance.
As you can see in the photos, one of the girls is seen playing the violin while the other girl does the singing.
I have no idea what they were singing about, nor do I know what music they played. It looked like a slow singing, maybe classic music.
In the tighter framed photos, the man in the T-shirt with sunglasses, and leaning against a car is their father. In the wider shots, the woman on the other side of the road, seen taking photos, is their mother.
You may notice a few other people stepping out of their homes, to take part in the clapping as show of support, watching the live performance.
The viewpoint was from one of my bedroom windows, as I took the photos of what was going on. I later went to their house, to seek permissions from the parents if I wanted to publish the photos, and they agreed.
Why I took the photographs?
Starting in February of 2020, my oldest child moved out to live independent, while the other child lived with the mother, I was finally free to try to restart my photography career, and if needed by going freelance. But only about a month later, in March, the United Kingdom went into a national lockdown in order to combat against the rising cases of the coronavirus, which put my plans on hold.
It was at that time I decided to try to get serious with Flickr, having registered in 2015, but been inactive for almost 5 years until I restarted using it in 2020. I was trying to find photos to upload and all that.
On that day, a Thursday at 8pm, it was time for the usual every Thursday event, to step outside and clap in show of our support for our NHS. I find it much easier to go upstairs, open the window at the front of the house, lean out and clap. From this position I can see other people clapping.
This was when I saw the family stepping outside, and setting up their small performance. That was when I went to grab my Nikon, and started trying to take photojournalism style photos as my skills are rather somewhat rusty and I could do with some new practise.
After taking the photos, I had to go over to their home, and informed their parents that I do photography, and wanted to check with them if I could have permissions to post my photos on my various profiles (not just Flickr, but also other accounts like with Adobe, etc.) The father agreed to give me permissions. I also gave them as many copies of the photos too.
About the subject.
The Clap for Our Carers event was a social movement carried out every Thursdays between March to May in 2020, in the United Kingdom as a gesture of appreciation and show of support for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
The idea came from Europe, likely to be either Italy and/or Spain which had lockdowns before the UK did.
On Thursdays, people would either step outside their front doors, or lean outside their windows, and give a round of applause. But some people have been taken to banging pots and pans, or playing music.
The event was meant to show our support for doctors and nurses, along with other hospital staff, but later included our show for other key workers, health services, ambulance crews, delivery drivers, waste collectors, and any other key workers who have to work during the lockdown.
In the fight against the coronavirus known as Covid-19.
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My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
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My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
“I put on black paper because I feel that America is in dark times, with the war, hurricanes and Bush. The flag is in pieces as the nation is in pieces and not in “good” rulings and with many problems. The flag is missing 2 stripes as I feel that the nation is lacking in virtues like freedom, like the conditions in Guantamo Bay, tortures of people . . .”
--Student artist’s own words.
This art was exhibited on a bulletin board of a gifted and talented magnet shool in the US. I won't name the school for fear that it might alert federal agents to investigate and intimidate the teacher or the school for being "anti-american".
File: 2020001-0010
Somewhere in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Thursday 7th May 2020, at 8pm.
Published with the parent’s permissions.
Notice: Geotags are removed, and the exact location will not be mentioned, for privacy and safety.
About this photograph.
During the Clap for Our Carers gesture on Thursday evening, those two girls and their family stepped outside, but instead of clapping, they showed their support for the NHS (National Health Service) with a live music performance.
As you can see in the photos, one of the girls is seen playing the violin while the other girl does the singing.
I have no idea what they were singing about, nor do I know what music they played. It looked like a slow singing, maybe classic music.
In the tighter framed photos, the man in the T-shirt with sunglasses, and leaning against a car is their father. In the wider shots, the woman on the other side of the road, seen taking photos, is their mother.
You may notice a few other people stepping out of their homes, to take part in the clapping as show of support, watching the live performance.
The viewpoint was from one of my bedroom windows, as I took the photos of what was going on. I later went to their house, to seek permissions from the parents if I wanted to publish the photos, and they agreed.
Why I took the photographs?
Starting in February of 2020, my oldest child moved out to live independent, while the other child lived with the mother, I was finally free to try to restart my photography career, and if needed by going freelance. But only about a month later, in March, the United Kingdom went into a national lockdown in order to combat against the rising cases of the coronavirus, which put my plans on hold.
It was at that time I decided to try to get serious with Flickr, having registered in 2015, but been inactive for almost 5 years until I restarted using it in 2020. I was trying to find photos to upload and all that.
On that day, a Thursday at 8pm, it was time for the usual every Thursday event, to step outside and clap in show of our support for our NHS. I find it much easier to go upstairs, open the window at the front of the house, lean out and clap. From this position I can see other people clapping.
This was when I saw the family stepping outside, and setting up their small performance. That was when I went to grab my Nikon, and started trying to take photojournalism style photos as my skills are rather somewhat rusty and I could do with some new practise.
After taking the photos, I had to go over to their home, and informed their parents that I do photography, and wanted to check with them if I could have permissions to post my photos on my various profiles (not just Flickr, but also other accounts like with Adobe, etc.) The father agreed to give me permissions. I also gave them as many copies of the photos too.
About the subject.
The Clap for Our Carers event was a social movement carried out every Thursdays between March to May in 2020, in the United Kingdom as a gesture of appreciation and show of support for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
The idea came from Europe, likely to be either Italy and/or Spain which had lockdowns before the UK did.
On Thursdays, people would either step outside their front doors, or lean outside their windows, and give a round of applause. But some people have been taken to banging pots and pans, or playing music.
The event was meant to show our support for doctors and nurses, along with other hospital staff, but later included our show for other key workers, health services, ambulance crews, delivery drivers, waste collectors, and any other key workers who have to work during the lockdown.
In the fight against the coronavirus known as Covid-19.
NOTICE: The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard for any Groups. You are free to comment for yourself, about the subject in the photo, about the photograph itself, or about any similar experience you had. If you want to promote the groups you are member of, do it in YOUR own photo pages.
Pfft all this fuss, my ex always said i was ahead of the times hehe ... Inspired by the movie IT ....
Notes: Shot in studio on a digital green background
The empty road outside the European Union buildings on the very early morning after the terrorist attacks down the road at Maelbeek Station.
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath, moving to its current premises in 1989. Since its inception, Lilliput has published over 400 titles, ranging from art and architecture, autobiography and memoir, biography and history, ecology and environmentalism, to essays and literary criticism, philosophy, current affairs and popular culture, fiction, drama and poetry.
Special Thanks
CycleEXIF
www.cycleexif.com/bianchi-mini-velo
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
GESSATO
www.gessato.com/bianchi-mini-velo-7-by-jin-buick-hidaka/
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
File: 2020001-0018
Somewhere in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Thursday 7th May 2020, at 8pm.
Published with the parent’s permissions.
Notice: Geotags are removed, and the exact location will not be mentioned, for privacy and safety.
About this photograph.
During the Clap for Our Carers gesture on Thursday evening, those two girls and their family stepped outside, but instead of clapping, they showed their support for the NHS (National Health Service) with a live music performance.
As you can see in the photos, one of the girls is seen playing the violin while the other girl does the singing.
I have no idea what they were singing about, nor do I know what music they played. It looked like a slow singing, maybe classic music.
In the tighter framed photos, the man in the T-shirt with sunglasses, and leaning against a car is their father. In the wider shots, the woman on the other side of the road, seen taking photos, is their mother.
You may notice a few other people stepping out of their homes, to take part in the clapping as show of support, watching the live performance.
The viewpoint was from one of my bedroom windows, as I took the photos of what was going on. I later went to their house, to seek permissions from the parents if I wanted to publish the photos, and they agreed.
Why I took the photographs?
Starting in February of 2020, my oldest child moved out to live independent, while the other child lived with the mother, I was finally free to try to restart my photography career, and if needed by going freelance. But only about a month later, in March, the United Kingdom went into a national lockdown in order to combat against the rising cases of the coronavirus, which put my plans on hold.
It was at that time I decided to try to get serious with Flickr, having registered in 2015, but been inactive for almost 5 years until I restarted using it in 2020. I was trying to find photos to upload and all that.
On that day, a Thursday at 8pm, it was time for the usual every Thursday event, to step outside and clap in show of our support for our NHS. I find it much easier to go upstairs, open the window at the front of the house, lean out and clap. From this position I can see other people clapping.
This was when I saw the family stepping outside, and setting up their small performance. That was when I went to grab my Nikon, and started trying to take photojournalism style photos as my skills are rather somewhat rusty and I could do with some new practise.
After taking the photos, I had to go over to their home, and informed their parents that I do photography, and wanted to check with them if I could have permissions to post my photos on my various profiles (not just Flickr, but also other accounts like with Adobe, etc.) The father agreed to give me permissions. I also gave them as many copies of the photos too.
About the subject.
The Clap for Our Carers event was a social movement carried out every Thursdays between March to May in 2020, in the United Kingdom as a gesture of appreciation and show of support for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
The idea came from Europe, likely to be either Italy and/or Spain which had lockdowns before the UK did.
On Thursdays, people would either step outside their front doors, or lean outside their windows, and give a round of applause. But some people have been taken to banging pots and pans, or playing music.
The event was meant to show our support for doctors and nurses, along with other hospital staff, but later included our show for other key workers, health services, ambulance crews, delivery drivers, waste collectors, and any other key workers who have to work during the lockdown.
In the fight against the coronavirus known as Covid-19.
NOTICE: The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard for any Groups. You are free to comment for yourself, about the subject in the photo, about the photograph itself, or about any similar experience you had. If you want to promote the groups you are member of, do it in YOUR own photo pages.
“This is my view of America. The flames at the bottom represent that the U.S. is slowly burning from the choices it has made. The vertical bars represent the prison bars that America is trapped behind. The keyholes show the ways we can unlock the prison (a tree for environmental choices and a plane for the war in Iraq.) The American flag in the corner shows the true America locked behind the bars that we can free before it’s too late.” --The student artist's own words.
--6th grade student artist’s own words written in Dec., 2005
This flag was exhibited on a bulletin board in 2005 at Capital Hill Gifted and Talented Magnet Shool in St. Paul. The student, who was in the 6th grade when he/she made this , is now a Senior in High School. Previously I did not want to name the school for fear that it might alert federal agents to investigate and intimidate the teacher or the school for being "anti-american"! That was 6 years ago though . . There is a great debate below this image and the other images of other student's flags that deals with issues such as brainwashing kids with liberal political propaganda and patriotism, etc. Read on and make a comment!
ഡിജിറ്റൽ ഇന്ത്യ #icuchalu #currentaffairs #plainjoke Credits: Abdul Rahman Pattambi ©ICU , ift.tt/2guY2Va
Special Thanks
CycleEXIF
www.cycleexif.com/bianchi-mini-velo
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
GESSATO
www.gessato.com/bianchi-mini-velo-7-by-jin-buick-hidaka/
My collections were featured on the web.
...............................................................................................
Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
..............................................................................................
2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
Kirkcudbright, Scotland, July 14th 2010:
Prince Philip has a laugh with 2 fishermen on the dockside at Kirkcudbright, Scotland in 2010. Photo taken with consent (day press pass).
The Queen and Prince Philip were in my then-hometown to promote British businesses; in our case these were both food producers (West Coast Sea Products, and Castle MacLellan). They were there maybe half an hour in all; I was jostling with the British newspaper photographers and their massive lenses; The Daily Mail, The Sun, Associated Press, and so on, but I don't think any of them followed the Prince down to the dockside when he went 'off message' to speak to some fishermen. I'm glad I did, because it's the one shot from that day which really looks spontaneous and joyful.
The fisherman is holding a scallop shell up to the Prince's ear...no doubt making a joke about hearing the sea, in a broad Scottish accent. I think I know who the fisherman in yellow is, but I've moved away from the area now and don't want to mention his name for fear of getting it wrong.
Available for editorial use, if anyone would like to contact me about that. Thanks.
From my archive... a Thames Television This Week current affairs film crew in West Belfast, January 1974, during 'The Troubles'.
(l to r) David Crozier, sound recordist; Peter Taylor, reporter; Teddy Adcock, camera; David Gill, director.
There's more material from the same era here.
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One of the main shopping streets in the centre of Brussels is less busy than normal when armed soldiers patrol during the recent state of emergency.
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Bianchi Mini Velo 7. "Shes So Charming!"
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2012.5–
Headlamp : Kimura LH-05, Japan
Taillamp : Kimura TL-07V, Japan
Reflector : Kimura 30mm, Japan
Fenders : Honjo, Japan
Padlock Key : Henry Squire & Sons
Tool Roll : Vintage
Wooden Grip : Abici
Brakes : Linear Pull Brakes, Motolite, Paul Component
Brake Levers : Love Lever, Paul Component
Shifter Mounts : Thumbies, Paul Component
Shift Lever : Gran Compe
Stem : Nitto, Japan
Crankset : FSA F-Gimondi
Chain Ring : Sugino, Japan
Chain : Shimano, Japan
Rear Derailleur : DURA-ACE 25th Anniversary Shimano, Japan
Bicycle Frame Handle : Custom Made
2017.8– Replaced
Pedals : MKS Mikashima, Sylvan Touring Next, Japan
Quick Release : Vintage
Saddle : Order Made
Handlebar : Velo Orange
Aluminum Bottle : Vintage with Chain
Crank Cap : Sunxcd, Japan
Chain Guard : Dixna, Japan
Sprocket : 8Speed Shimano, Japan
Front Hub : White Industries
Rear Hub : White Industries
Rim : Alexrims
Spoke : Dt Swiss
Nipple : Dt Swiss
Bottom Bracket : Tange, Japan
Wire Basket : Vintage
Wire Basket Brass Font : Vintage
Wire Basket Leather Plate : Hermes Order Made
Bell : Vintage
Bag : La Maison du Chocola with Vintage Key
CGF Leather Sign Board : Hermes Order Made.
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On a grey, damp and chilly Monday morning in February 1960, fresh from school, I began my journalistic career on the Banstead Herald in Surrey. Among the reporters I met on that impressionable first day was one Terry Collcutt, a couple of years older than I – ‘a down to earth reporter’ I recorded a little later, ‘who smoked Old Holborn roll-ups in liquorice paper’. I’m proud to say that we never lost touch, and we remained the best of friends quite literally to his dying day, 58 years later.
Terry died last Thursday, and with his passing, one of the early building blocks of my life has been taken away. He was a fine and instinctive local journalist, with a newshound’s nose for a good story and a terrier's instinct to dig for the facts. Away from the typewriter, exchanging one sort of keyboard for another, he was also a jazz pianist of no mean accomplishment. And did I mention his double allotment in his home village of Bletchingley? He was a dab hand with the leeks and legumes, as well.
But back to reporting: his ‘old school’ Pitman’s shorthand was impeccable. He learned this strange but effective script in his early days as a cub reporter, and used it for the rest of his life, even when jotting down notes to himself. Well, journalism was his trade, after all – and even as recently as a few months ago, he was writing letters to The Daily Telegraph (and getting them published) on subjects as diverse as the state of the NHS and the inability of some schoolteachers to use punctuation properly.
Terry had an insatiable interest in politics, and throughout his life he was an unreconstructed socialist to the core. Not that you would ever have picked that up from his journalism: he was scrupulously even-handed when it came to reporting the political ebbs and flows he so keenly observed. He had a lovely sense of humour, too, and whenever we met – usually with other friends from the now distant inky-fingered world of newspapers – our easy, drifting lunches were always stimulating and jolly.
Terry Collcutt was simply one of the best. He’s gone now, and I for one am missing him already. But believe me when I say that he’ll be celebrated for years to come.
At the Place de la Bourse in Brussels. This is where people had gathered to pay their respects and lay flowers, and, later, to come and make vile anti-immigrant protests.
From the archive... 18 July 1974.
In the 1970s when I was working in television, I spent much of my time in Northern Ireland. There, the crucial thing was to be even-handed at all times - and so it was that I had all manner of dealings with any number of politicians, prelates, soldiers, civil servants, black propagandists, thugs, terrorists and freedom fighters from across the wide divide. Not least were several clandestine meetings with the most wanted man in Britain and Ireland - Daithi Ó Conaill, chief of staff of the Provisional IRA. At the time, five years into 'The Troubles', I was preparing a documentary for Thames TV about the political process, and his would be an important, though highly controversial, contribution (Ó Conaill was regarded on all sides as being a political thinker and strategist, though obviously a hard-liner).
It took a long time to reach him, but in time we met, and he agreed to take part in the programme (at which point, Ian Paisley angrily withdrew), and we filmed the interview in a 'safe house' outside Dublin. Someone in the TV crew had a stills camera, and Ó Conaill didn't object. Here he is on the left... and that's me on the right.
For me, this was a defining journalistic moment: I’d been assiduously working towards this interview for months, without any sure indication that I would get anywhere near this moment. And when it happened, I knew I’d pulled off a career coup – and irritated the hell out of the British government, who were less than pleased. The interview was done by Peter Taylor, the award-winning veteran reporter who is now one of my oldest and closest friends. There's more on the Troubles here
A riot in Andersonstown, Belfast - not an infrequent event during Northern Ireland's Troubles. This was October 1976. I snatched this image with a Topcon RE Super 35mm camera with Kodakolor film.
There's more material from the same era here.