The Winding Paths of the Googleplex
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 342 The path outside 1500 Crittenden Ave, Mountain View, CA, where UDS Jaunty was held.
Near freedom
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 314 An alleyway in Boston, MA. This was another case of me playing around with white balances until I found the look I wanted. I like the feeling of stretching towards freedom that this image gives me.
Curve
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 301 The edge of 1 Sheldon Square in the morning sun. A nice architectural pattern to start your day.
Cold steel and glass
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 298 Buildings around Canada square in London. I took this shot because I liked the feeling of confusion that all the more-or-less identical grids of steel and glass gave; like being lost in a forest of giant, soulless, man-made trees.
Blue Kingdom
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 294 1 Kingdom Street, Paddington Central, London. I had a few minutes to shoot before the start of caffeine. That’s probably why I left my camera in portrait mode (and the wrong ISO, incidentally) rather than in the vivid saturation mode I [...]
Arch of stone
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 271 One of the arches of the Ribblehead viaduct. I’ve been trying to find a way to shoot this viaduct for the last few months, but either I’ve been too late in the day (and the sun’s been in the wrong place) [...]
Gilded with light
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 211 The main hall of Norwich Cathedral, taken from near the altar. I was amazed that this came out as sharp as it did, considering it was hand held at 1/9 seconds, ISO 200 (my mistake). It’s shots like these that make [...]
These cloister’d halls
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 210 Some of the corridor (I want to say cloister; I don’t know if that’s right) around the central square of Norwich cathedral. I wish I could have cloned out the rubbish bin convincingly, but I couldn’t. Note the slightly odd-looking verticals [...]
Slats
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 209 A building on Prince of Wales Street in Norwich, lit by a solitary sodium lamp. I just liked the pattern.
Corners
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 208 I’m not dead. This is Norwich Cathedral, taken on a shockingly sunny Sunday with my new Nikon D300 (woot). And yes, I will fill in all of days 190-207, once I have the time.
Tramway
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 201 The Tramway Hotel in Lancaster. I often wonder, when I see a place like this borded up, its sign fading, what’s inside. This used to be a pub – a hotel, even; now it’s just a place to stick flyers.
Smash
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 200 An outbuilding, round the back of the Lancaster Grand Theatre; another one of those hidden corners of the city that is slowly falling apart.
Hole in the wall
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 198 The postbox of The Sugarhouse, one of Lancaster’s better nightclubs. I just loved the colour of the wall, to be honest.
What whispers did these walls one hear?
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 186 The remains of one of the walls of the great church at St Benet’s Abbey, on the banks of the River Bure. St Benet’s was alone in not being dissolved by Henry VIII. Instead, it was made part of the bishopric [...]
All that remains
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 185 The ruins of St Benet’s Abbey on the banks of the River Bure. This is an amazing set of ruins. Not only are parts of the abbey still there, but there’s also the remains of a wind pump that was built [...]
What man built to bridge nature’s creation
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 141 The overpass that runs across Vyšehrad in Prague. Actually, it’s not technically across Vyšehrad, which is about a half kilometre to the west of the overpass, but it was the nearest placename I could find.
Infrequently used, I fear
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 137 The Morecambe and Heysham yacht club racing office at Morecambe. I wonder how often it gets used.
High on a hill there was a station
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 129 The station building at Ribblehead, on the Settle to Carlisle line.
A long, slow collapse
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 112 A collapsing cottage on the road between Ingleton and Hawes. I would have liked to get closer to this so that I could have worked with some more extreme angles. Unfortunately a large, barbed-wire fence was in the way and I [...]
How to build a brooding building
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 90 Edinburgh Castle. It stands on a rock in the middle of the city and, even in the modern age of not being afraid of people in castles, puts the wind up you just a little bit all the same. The gun [...]
The Oncoming Storm
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 80 A bad weather front sweeping over the sea front at Cleaveleys, Lancashire. This would’ve worked better if I’d stood more in the centre of the promenade so that the building didn’t take up as much of the image. I have no [...]
Gazing Heavenward
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 60 St Paul’s Church belltower, Brookhouse. A bit blown towards the bottom right but still not bad considering the day’s prevailing weather.
Collapsing in the sun
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 49 This is the barn that I was shooting next to for yesterday’s photo. I said that I was going to try to capture it at sunrise, but this, its most interesting face, would be in shadow if I did that, so [...]
Oddly Menacing
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 47 Jubilee Tower, which overlooks Morecambe bay from one of the high points of the forest of Bowland. Colours and contrast altered in the Gimp, but otherwise untouched. And today, because you’re lucky, you get a bonus image.
