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Cotch: Flashride for Blackfriars

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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Cotch: The Moine House

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: Brean Down

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

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

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

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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Cotch: How to deliver a petition

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: The Cheese Festival

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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Protest The Pope!

At the weekend around 12,000 people marched through London in protest against the policies of the Pope.  A photo essay on cotch dot net explains why we were there.

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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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Cotch: Victory Flashmob

With Section 44 stop-and-search found to be in contravention of the declaration of human rights this week, the people of Photographer Not A Terrorist organised a victory flashmob at New Scotland Yard.  For pictures, and to find out what it … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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