365 Project: Photo 351

What's that you say? Why have you posted a picture of the Hotel de Ville from the Grand Place of Brussels when you're supposed to be barrelling through Hungary by now? It's a complicated and frustrating story which will have to wait for another day...

365 Project: Photo 336

The view from the train back down to London. I love the flat landscapes of east Anglia.

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The theme today is Simple Pleasures. This is one of the gateways into Russell Square where I come to sit and read my book every lunchtime. A simple pleasure.

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As I was walking to work today I looked back the way I had come and saw the sunlight behind this tree. I've done a poor job of capturing it but I remember rather liking the look of it in the flesh.

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A pleasant sunset stroll along Hampstead Heath, my first visit there in a very long time. Taken on my phone and cropped, hence the graininess.

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It's been a while since I pretended my photo is on topic so here goes....

The theme today is Close and, indeed, this is quite a close up picture of a rapidly rotting rose. What I was actually interested in, however, when I put this together was the idea of a triptych. I've had a few ideas for triptychs and over mosaic type images for a long time now but I didn't actually have the expertise required to pull them off - and so I thought I had better educate myself. The web is positively bubbling over with video tutorials that make this sort of thing fairly foolproof and it proved to be none too difficult. Having said that, whenever I use the word foolproof I'm reminded of the witticism: show me a foolproof plan and I'll show you a bigger fool. Still, this wasn't too bad for a first attempt.

365 Project: Photo 260

This is the Victoria Tower as seen from the eponymously named gardens. I think it's rather fitting that St. Stephen's Tower (Big Ben) was renamed Elizabeth Tower for the Jubilee celebrations; the two great matriarchs of the last two centuries standing either side of Parliament. Even though it is larger and more grand than its opposite number the Victoria Tower is much less well known. 

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I've always had a bit of a thing for lone trees in verdant, green pastures. 

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No prizes for guessing where I took this. The theme was Delicate and I reckon it must have taken some rather delicate metalworking to produce this.

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I'm on a boat this weekend for a stag do, cruising the canals of the Bath area. This is the back of a beer garden that abuts the river, a very pleasant place to quench your thirst. The theme today was Vines and I figure there are some in there somewhere.

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The theme was Pastoral and this is a shot from near Bath. Very peaceful; apart from when trains plough through. This was taken from atop the Avoncliff aquaduct.

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Has anyone ever actually seen a man's arm being broken by a swan?

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I have no idea what sort of flower this is but it caught my eye at lunchtime. 

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Another beautiful day in London. This is taken in the garden of St. Thomas' Hospital. I came here specifically to try and get a shot with the interestingly shaped fountain and, what is now called, Elizabeth Tower but my composition wasn't great and so I went with this wider shot. I'll go back and nail the picture I had in mind at some point in the future.

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You won't be surprised to hear that the list of themes for the middle of March is a bit heavy on Green-ness and today is no exception: In a Field of Green. Once again my standard issue green space during the working week is Russell Square.

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It all went a bit wrong today. The theme was Shamrock so I thought I would take a photo of some clover; so far so easy. So I went to Russell Square at lunchtime to get the shot and this is what I got. It was only afterwards that I wondered whether or not clover really is shamrock and some quick research seems to suggest it's a matter of some contention. Then, looking back at the photo, I realised that I hadn't even taken a photo of clover anyway - all round fail. Still, here it is: