Greenwich pre-Solstice Sunset

Late last September I went for a wander round Greenwich with tamaranth that, at her suggestion, finished off with a walk up the Thames path to the Dome. I got this memorable picture with my iPhone and T got some very striking ones too - the light was incredible. I resolved to come back with my main camera, and the weekend before Christmas (and the last sunset before the Winter Solstice) I retraced our steps.

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More photographs from this set here.

Pub Sign FAIL

On the 26th I was driving up to Cambridge from Woking in between various Christmas visits. (My brother kindly agreed to be driven up with me and then head home, thus getting round the issues of me not having a car and there being no trains.) As we passed through Harston I took a peek to see what the pub that's not the Queen's Head was calling itself now.

This year it's the Three Horseshoes, and they've got an appropriate sign. Now, if you google for 'Three Horseshoes pub sign' images you get a lot of signs showing three horseshoes side by side or in some sort of pattern. But the management at this place had gone for something more artistic. Alas I didn't stop to take a picture, but this drawing represents their new sign:



Oops.

I finally get to do a shoot with gorgeous female models...

New Year's Day saw me in Cambridge with three lovely ladies; one of them wouldn't get out of bed for anything I could offer, but the other two were very accommodating for photography.

Yes, I was cat sitting for ms_cataclysm and R. Holly stayed firmly hidden in bed but Trude consented to come out, and pictures of her are below the cut. More pictures, of Panda, later.

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