Grange Road - Birkenhead - and some 'winged beasts' with damage

up to something dynamic and interactive, as usual

Detail of futuristic metal decorative element crowning "The Focal" building in Spring Street, Melbourne.

This decoration has fascinated me for years, and always makes me think of Art Deco flagpoles, ray guns from Marvin the Martian cartoons, and Fritz Lang's film Metropolis.

"The Focal" was built in 1996, and is a nine level mid-rise residential apartment building containing a heated indoor pool, full sized tennis court, gym, and my favourite - a communal herb garden. Most of the other commercial and residential buildings in the area are pretty boring and don't have anything like this on them to make them stand out.

日本銀行

Bank of Japan.

Taken from the backyard

48/365x2

It's Friday! Who can complain??

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Got a little bored at work yesterday... so I went to the roof... contemplated jumping off.. then started shooting... pictures that is :)

stops me

PDX photowalk 10-18-08

Part of the Looking Up set

See the Slideshow

Palm Trees and Hotels

Giant Redwood at Inverary Bell Tower

... of the gatehouse to the ruins of Thetford Priory - the staircase long gone.

Kaleidoscope Skylight

Really. Big. Tree. (I think it's the Tulip Poplar, in the back of the garden, 20 feet around.)

Dohany St. Synagogue

this is actually very much mostly sooc

Interior of the Cincinnati Marriott at RiverCenter

A lot of terra cotta panels on this building c.1900 - This panel must have been an uplifting experience for pupils arriving each day - I guess it would not be very PC today. Now used by the local authority as offices etc.

b l o g g e d

photo show opening tonight in San Francisco.. Details at:

Details at flickr.com/groups/hbw

handheld 1/10s view from reading seat (shared with cat Woody) - with review deadline, wisdom tooth recovery and arctic temperatures outside, I spent whole day reading - though for much of the afternoon Woody had this space to himself and I was on chair to the right of frame

Fisheye of tree in Oak Park in Tampa.