Tag Archives: photography

Cotch: Flashride for Blackfriars

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Joe

In 2000, London’s previous mayor, Ken Livingstone, began the process of fixing forty years of mistakes that had been made in the pursuit of the impossible — the comfortable accommodation of mass motor vehicle use in a dense city centre. … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Friday photo: social transport

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Joe

It is wrong to think in terms of “private” versus “public” transport.  That is important only to the bureaucrats who have to manage transport problems and fund transport solutions. What matters is social versus anti-social transport. Originally posted at At … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Three* stone circles that are way better than Stonehenge

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Joe

And now for some light diversion.  David Hembrow describes the travels and travails of a Dutch family trying to get to Stonehenge by bicycle, faced with south east England’s network of motorways and motorways-in-all-but-name.  I think I have solution to … Continue reading →

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AWWTM: Friday photo: bloody motorists…

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Joe

You can hardly walk anywhere in the countryside ’round here without your way being blocked by some anti-social motorist who has left a vehicle on a footpath… Even after all this time, I still find it so bizarre that in … Continue reading →

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Cotch: The Moine House

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Joe

The geology and landscape of the Scottish Highlands are famously divided by the Great Glen fault. Less famous is the Moine Thrust Belt, running almost parallel to the Great Glen a hundred miles north. Here the rocks and landscape of … Continue reading →

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Cotch: The Hutong

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Joe

At the start of the 15th century, when the Ming Dynasty was young, Beijing was established as the new Chinese capital — a heavily planned city, a rectangle laid out on a north-south axis around the great imperial palace, the … Continue reading →

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Cotch: Brean Down

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Joe

A great limestone scarp runs the breadth of Somerset, the Mendip Hills, famous for their karst landscape — the gorge at Cheddar and the caves at Wookey Hole. Continue reading at cotch dot net…

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Cotch: Helmsdale Harbour

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Joe

In the winter, while I neglected to post on the blog, I spent some time out of the way to concentrate on work. Helmsdale in Sutherland was about as out of the way as I could find. Continue reading at … Continue reading →

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Cotch: Night Bus

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Joe

A young smartly dressed woman gets on, concentrating on her phone call. The bus pulls out before she has time to mount the stairs, and the motion throws her to the side, her bag swinging and bashing the passenger behind … Continue reading →

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Cotch: White Christmas

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Joe

At Christmas it snowed in Dorset.  It’s rare that it snows in Dorset, and I’ve not previously photographed the area in the snow.  So here’s a quick photo essay of the Blackmore Vale at Christmas.

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AWWTM: Can you work out where I am?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been away from London for three weeks now, taking a break from the noise and the taxi drivers.  I needed to eliminate distractions to get a couple of work and writing projects completed, so I’m doing an extreme telecommute … Continue reading →

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Cotch: How to deliver a petition

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Joe

The awesome Science Is Vital campaign organisers kindly asked me to accompany them to Downing Street to capture the delivery of their petition of 35,000 opponents of science cuts.  Over at cotch dot net, I have a short photo essay … Continue reading →

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Cotch: Thames Barrier to Teddington

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Joe

With everything that has been happening, I’ve neglected to mention the Thames Barrier to Teddington exhibition at the gallery in Foyles bookshop at the top end of Charing Cross Road, or indeed even been to look myself. I usually ignore … Continue reading →

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Cotch: The Cheese Festival

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Joe

I love the Durham Township photoblog — all the fabulous atmospheric shallow-focus photos of rural Pensylvania. Especially the ones of the traditional county fairs and farm shows. The kids with candyfloss, prize livestock on display, and old fashioned family entertainment. … Continue reading →

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Cotch: Science Is Vital!

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Joe

On saturday, a couple of thousand nerds gathered outside the treasury to be noisy, and to argue the case that science is vital.  The scientists are getting their contribution in early ahead of the “comprehensive spending review” that is to … Continue reading →

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