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Geek and nerd Joe D has in the past studied genetics, molecular and cell biology, worked in cancer research, and made contemptuous amounts of money from incompetently composed photographs. The views expressed on this weblog are not his own; rather, he stole them from you through mind invasion.
Tag Archives: locations
Cotch: Arno’s Vale Cemetery
Over at cotch dot net, I’ve thrown together a quick photo essay on the Victorian park cemetery at Arno’s Vale in Bristol, which until recently was rather derelict and overgrown. You can read the while post at Arno’s Vale Cemetery.
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Tagged arnos vale, bristol, cemeteries, good locations, gothic, locations, photo essays, photography, uk, urban, urban decay, westcountry
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Cotch: Grant Museum to close
Matt Brown reports that the awesome Grant Museum of Zoology is to close on July 1st. The Grant Museum is a hidden gem. It’s tiny, and shoved away somewhere deep within the labyrinths of UCL, between Totenham Court Road and … Continue reading
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Tagged good locations, grant museum of zoology, locations, london, museums, photography, uk, zoology
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Cotch: Moel-y-gest
This past week, I’ve used a week off to prepare enough blog posts to keep me going through the weeks when I don’t have time to write, and also to prepare for getting a serious hardcore science blog going again. … Continue reading
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Tagged good locations, locations, moel-y-gest, mountains, photography, portmadog, snowdonia, uk, wales
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Cotch: Happy birthday, Millennium Bridge
Today is the tenth birthday of London’s Millennium Bridge, a much loved modern Thames crossing, and a symbol of London’s improving centre and riverside environments. Find out more about the structure in this celebratory photo essay at cotch dot net.
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Tagged good locations, locations, london, millennium bridge, photography, structures, uk
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Cotch: This is Cincinnati
It is reassuring to know that a City can not sue me for libel, even under English law, because I said some not very nice things about the nasty, brutish and racist city of Cincinnati today. It’s OK though — … Continue reading
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Tagged abandoned, cincinnati, derelict, locations, midwest, ohio, photo essays, photography, poverty, urban, urban decay, usa
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Cotch: 15 May, 2004
A short early-morning photo-walk around Bristol’s Floating Harbour — an account of how I first came to be spending my time taking photographs — is available to read at cotch dot net.
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Tagged bristol, bristol harbour, good locations, locations, photo essays, photography, urban, westcountry
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Cotch: Landslide victory
This time not about elections but about geology: the great shifting slopes of Mam Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District; a desolate scene of man’s abandoned attempt to tame the difficult landscape. Read it at cotch dot net.
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Tagged abandoned places and things, bleak locations, derbyshire, geoloy, good locations, locations, peak district, photo essays, photography, rural, rural decay, uk
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Cotch: Neighbourhood
A pair of weekend mini-photo essays on spring walks around the skyscrapers and scruffy pubs of south and east London. Part 1, here, part 2, here.
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Tagged docklands, east london, good locations, locations, london, photo essays, photography, uk, urban, urban decay
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Cotch: From here to a promontory
Continuing the weekly weekend mini photo essay strand, here is the latest, on Portland Bill.
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Tagged coastal, dorset, jurassic coast, locations, photo essays, photography, portland, rural, westcountry
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Cotch: Battersea, in all its desolation
Prompted by a PR puff piece about a publicity stunt petition by parochial nimbys, I compiled a photo-essay on the desolate ruins of Battersea Power Station. Read it here.
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Tagged architecture, art deco, battersea power station, locations, london, nimbyism, photo essays, photography, pr, uk, urban, urban decay
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Cotch: Castlerigg
In the house where I grew up, on the side of a kitchen cupboard above the kitchen sink, is a small wide yellowed print on a bent and battered cobweb covered card, faded with the light of five thousand sunrises … Continue reading
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Tagged castlerigg, cumbria, locations, mountains, photo essays, photography, rural
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