Sydney Through a Pinhole (Part 2)

Several more photographs of Sydney through a pinhole camera.

Sydney Through A Pinhole (Part 1)

In Sydney, Australia for several days last week, I found time to shoot a few pinhole photographs.

Sydney Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Luna Park

Sydney Opera House

Bondi Beach

Sydney Skyline

Sydney Opera House

Newport Beach

Sydney Opera House

Millennium Bridge to Southwark, another walk

Shot half a roll of 120 on a walk from the Millennium Bridge to Southwark and Bermondsey, featuring the Tate Modern, St Paul's, and assorted London iconography.

Another look at Trafalgar Square

Several shots of Trafalgar Square from unusual views. All taken with a 6x6 pinhole.

Front View - Trafalgar Square Lion

Rear View - Trafalgar Square Lion

Man in Rain

Apologies for the lack of photo updates recently, but I've been busy on other tasks, notably
- fulfilling an order for 30+ mounted prints (lots of work)
- getting my online store ready asap (target 1 month)
- performing tests with archival print sprays (aerosol method good results, renaissance wax bad results)
- repairing my pinhole camera (some grit had worked its way into the shim)
Hoping to have some new photos up soon!

Westminster at Night

Parkland Walk, Abandoned London Railway

London is famous for its abandoned Underground stations which are no longer used or open to the public. But there are also several stretches of overland railway in the London Underground network which were once thriving but are no longer in use. The 5-mile long Parkland Walk was formerly a link between Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line and Highgate on the Northern Line. Remnants of two stations, Stroud Green (built 1881) and Crouch End (built 1867), can be found along the walk.

Above, the remains of Crouch End station.

Between the platforms of Crouch End station. The actual rail lines were not removed until the early 1970s.

Above, just north of Stroud Green station which has been elmost totally removed.

Strange to think that this is exactly where thousands of trains carrying hundreds of people once travelled. Sadly, there are lobby groups trying to resurrect the line for transport.

As was was the case when I was walking the High Line in New York, some primitive emotions are invoked. Railways are impressive in the way that they tame the landscape, but even more impressive is seeing how quickly nature can reclaim the very same land. This line was built in the golden age of railways, so I wonder how the builders would have felt to know that in a hundred years time it would all be gone.

Riddle Street

I could have sworn that this street was called Riddle Street, but it does not appear to be on any map as such. A riddle indeed.

Baker Street, London Underground

Regent Street Online

In the background a billboard advertises regentstreetonline.com. It was news to me that "the famous curve of Regent Street, between Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus, is wholly owned by one organisation, The Crown Estate." Their slogan is "Regent Street - Where Time is Always Well Spent". Nothing subliminal in that slogan of course. They are currently holding a competition, "Could you be the face of Regent Street?"

I walked past this gent and suddenly it all seemed to click into place. Time is always well spent on Regent Street, and could this man be the face of Regent Street?

The Fourth Plinth

Trafalgar square has a plinth in each of its four corners, intended to hold statues. But during construction almost 200 years ago, money ran out and the so-called '4th plinth' has remained empty for more than 160 years. London has a strange obsession with this, visit fourthplinth.co.uk to see just how seriously Londoners take it. Finally, after decades of debate, it is going to be finished. The statue? An 8 month pregnant woman with no arms, Alison Lapper.

Thames Path, Pinhole

Somewhere between Wapping and Canary Wharf.