Barry Cryer OBE

Barry Cryer OBE who died on the 25 January 2022 at the age of 86. Barry was one of the panellists on the BBC radio comedy programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. He also toured in a show called "Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden - Live! actually". He is seen here on the left with Ronnie in a performance at the Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington Gardens London in  2012. Barry is a great loss. 

Solarcan

Solarcan is a pinhole camera in a can. You set it up pointing in the general direction of South

and leave there for up to six months. During this time, each day the light from the Sun passes

through the pinhole and traces its path across the sky on the sensitive film inside the can. At

 the end of the desired time you open the can and remove the film which will have a trace of

 the sun for each day it was in place.

For full information and images visit  https://solarcan.co.uk/

The resultant image from Solarcan in 2020

The image recorded of the Sun for six months, from the Summer Solstice (June} to Winter Solstice (December)

London in Lockdown 

London during the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic April 2020

I wanted to document iconic spots in London during the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, but due to Government COVID-19 restrictions, I was unable to take the photos I wanted. My friend who was permitted to travel due to her work, took photographs that I could  work with. These images I rendered to replicate photographs of the early days of photography.The film emulsion then, was so insensitive that people and other moving objects did not record. 

              Realisation: Douglas Adams               Photography: Sunita Lal 

Trafalgar Square

The Scoop, London South Bank

Oxford Circus

Regent Street

Westminster Bridge

 London Bridge Railway Station

London Bridge Tube Station

London Overground Train

A Red London Bus

The Office

RIP Tony Allen

 Tony Allen the Nigerian drummer died suddenly in Paris aged 79 on Thursday 30 April 2020. He is best known for creating Afrobeat with Fela Kuti another great Nigerian musician. My images are from his London concert at the Royal Festival Hall, September 2015. The concert also featured Baaba Maal the Senegalese singer and Toumani Diabate, Kora player. #tonyallendrummer

London Zoo in Winter

Animal Portraits

Giraffe at the "Into Africa" enclosure.

   Kumbuka, is a male 16-year-old Western lowland silverback gorilla living in the "Gorilla Kingdom".

Two Oriental short-clawed otters, the smallest species of Otter.

Three Great white pelicans in their enclosure.

Rockhopper Penguin, Ricky is the star of "Penguin Beach".

Jae Jae, a handsome male Sumatran tiger in "Tiger Territory".  

Poppies, Tower of London Remembers

The installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, created by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. A total 888,246 ceramic poppies progressively filled the Tower’s famous moat, attracting over 5 million visitors.

We Will Remember Them.

Tour of Britain London Stage 8
Sunday, 14 September

Sir Bradley Wiggins won the individual time trial to move up to third position in the general classification with a superb ride around the 8.8km city circuit. Pictured below with other top riders.



Sir Bradley Wiggins                                               Mark Cavendish

                                        (GB/Team Sky)                                         (GB/Omega Pharma-QuickStep) 







                                   

                                         Marcel Kittel                                                    Michal Kwiatkowski 

                               (Ger/Team Giant-Shimano)                              (Pol/Omega Pharma-QuickStep)

The pack set off on 10 laps of the 8.8km circuit.

Dylan van Baarle (Ned/Garmin-Sharp) retained the

Yellow jersey to win the general classification.

Tall ships at Greenwich
 
Royal Naval College 2014 in the style of 1814
Tectona, built in India in 1929, is moored outside.

The Tall Ships Festival brought ships from all around the world to the river Thames cantered at Greenwich. On Tues 9 Sept they left for a Parade of Sail  - along the River Thames from Greenwich to the mouth of the river. A fleet of more than 50 vessels passed the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf as they said farewell to the capital. Lead by Dar Mlodziezy, the biggest ship under sail that day.

The Polish training ship, Dar Mlodziezy ("The Gift of Youth").

The Shtandart is a modern replica of a Russian navy flagship 
that was built for Peter the Great in 1703.


Oosterschelde is the largest restored Dutch sailing ship, a monument for Dutch shipbuilding,
passes through the Thames barrier, it has saved London from being flooded for many years.

Metropolitan line steam days.

The Metropolitan Line steam days were to mark the 125th anniversary of the Chesham branch line service. The special journeys on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 August ran between Wembley Park and Rickmansworth. These pictures were taken at Harrow on the Hill station.

People really got into the spirit of the event, the driver included.

The train steamed back to Rickmansworth after a stop an Harrow on the Hill.

WW1 Lights Out, 4th of August 2014

The "lights out" event concluded a day of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain entered World War One. Across the nation people were invited to turn off their lights for an hour until 23:00 BST, the time war was declared in 1914. London went dark for an hour.

Unannounced, a mysterious blue beam appeared in the sky at dusk and for seven nights, it was visible across the city between sunset and sunrise. London landmarks were seen against the light.

 From Jubilee bridge, South bank.

Westminster Abbey from Broad Sanctuary.

 Spectra was an art installation by Ryoji Ikeda, produced and presented by Artangel. It consisted of a  twenty-metre grid containing forty-nine searchlights installed at Victoria Tower Gardens.  People  could walk within the grid, experiencing a specially composed soundtrack by Ikeda.

HMS Belfast

 

HMS Belfast was launched in Belfast on St Patrick’s Day 1938 and was the largest and most powerful cruiser in the Royal Navy. She played a crucial role escorting Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union during 1943.
In June 1944 Belfast spent five weeks in Operation Overlord supporting the D-Day Normandy landings. She reportedly fired one of the first shots on D-Day. From 1950-1952 the ship played an active role in the Korean War. She is now preserved by the Imperial War Museum.  http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/hms-belfast



 HMS Belfast's bell, Silver ship's bell, bearing the arms of the City of Belfast. The inside of the rim

has various names engraved on it, as the bell (inverted) was used as a font and those baptised were

named here, in naval tradition.

 

The view from the bridge, today looking upstream over the river Thames.

 

These are the forward A and B Turrets each holding three of the twelve

 6-inch guns, each capable of delivering a shell onto a target 12½ miles away.