the world is full of pretty and interesting things: often so many that it's hard to keep up.
this section is a reflection of that prettiness. mostly it is photos taken by me, but there are
also some images from other sources. currently far too much remains without comments - this is
another of my projects to come when work quiets down.
random photo (click to enlarge) --->
765 photos in 52
albums. 285 photos, and
1 album with no visible photos, unshown.
mostly photos are not on display for bandwidth reasons, although for a few it is by
someone's request... my artwork and the dedication to aurora are not currently included in these
statistics.
- summer 2002, photos of me
taken by my father, while we were in france in the summer of 2002... a time when i still had blue hair, i hadn't yet cut my long hair off, and during one of my can't be bothered to shave phases.
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- miscellaneous shots of me
photos of me taken by various people for when i was little up until fairly recently. note that the photos are not in date order; i think they all have dates on their individual pages.
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- dedication to the lockheed sr71 blackbird
one of the first examples of the use of radar absorbent material, blackbird is a spy
plane that was designed to take over from the U-2 project (also lockheed), after one was shot down over the ussr. (it actually started on the drawing board as a fighter, but with the u-2 calamity the usaf changed priorities). in order to evade the soviet sams blackbird was designed to fly faster and hig [...]
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- ana's pikachu aeroplane
All Nippon Airways have a number of planes with pretty paint jobs. This one is decked out with characters from the Pikachu cartoons. Photos taken while watching planes come in and out of Kagoshima Airport on 11th April 2004.
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- osaka april 8th/9th
photos from around osaka on the 8th and 9th of april. in the evening we arrived in central osaka [osaka actually has at least three 'centres'], esconsed ourselves in the dai-ichi hotel [not related to the university we were at], and headed out for all you can eat barbequed beef.
afterwards we decamped to a nice bar near a different 'central' osaka - this one seemed to have a large n [...]
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- nara april 8th 2003
photos from around nara on the 8th of april 2003. we went to ujibyoudouin, todaiji, kofukuji, horyuji and visited the deer in nara park.
ujibyoudouin (or sometimes just byodoin) was build in 1052 by yorimichi fujiwara [the fujiwaras were one of the most powerful families in japan at the time, aone of the driving forces behind the unification of japan]. it is a remote temple on the o [...]
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- osaka aquarium - april 2003
osaka sealife prison had the largest single tank in world when it was created [that honour is currently held by a newer sealife prison in okinawa, also part of japan]. the tank is 34 metres long, 9 metres high and holds 5400 tons of water. it is the centrepiece of a rather impressive prison, full of a wide variety of sharks (including a whale shark) and rays. around the prison are a wide variety o [...]
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- kyoto april 7th/8th 2003
photos from around kyoto on 7th april 2003. we went to nijyou castle, ryoanji - where all my batteries failed, so you only get one photo of what i think was the nicest of the places i visited on that trip! - kinkakuji, ginkakuji and kiyomizutera. we stayed in a little ryokan - traditional travel inn - in central kyoto, and the next morning i went wandering around the nearby streets, before the oth [...]
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- flowers in japan spring 2003
i often take photos of flowers, here are some of the results. mostly from my trip to kyoto in early april, so there are a lot of different varieties of cherry blossom. also other flowers from back home in kokubu.
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- ugly japan: concrete, wires, and more..
japan is a country known around the world for beautiful arts, architecture and nature. while all of these things do exist, the overwhelming impression on walking around both town and countryside in japan is one of extreme ugliness! some twenty pecent of the japanese population is employed by the construction industry whose basic function is to lay concrete whereever they can. they are extremely ef [...]
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- miscellenous 2002/2003
miscellenous photos mostly taken in japan from september 2002 through to march 2003, or the month before in england. includes many photos of me, some of a class i taught in fukuoka, some comic japlish, and kinjiro ninomiya.
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- mostly parties - spring -> summer 2001
taken on a little disposable camera that i bought for the blading in paris, but left at the hotel in the flustered lateness.some photos from chartes (11/3/2001), some from the lmh ball (28/4/2001), some from mel going away dinner (18/5/2001) and some really bad ones from a dvevara gig in the jericho (19/5/2001)... i was desparately trying to finish the film, hence the pointlessness of most of t [...]
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- chartre, lmh ball, british museum - spring 2001
this set has photos from my the final part of my birthday trip to france with ryngan - all around chartes cathedral.. next some shots from home in oxford.. one of jenny and ryngan at the lmh ball - this was the less underexposed of the ones i took that evening... finally shots of the newly rebuilt british library and some things in the nearby british museum.
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- paris for my birthday, set 1 - march 2001
i went to paris, along with my closest friend, to celebrate my birthday blading around with lots of people, and looking at grave designs. this set starts with some of the cotswolds area i spend some of my youth living in, moves onto calais, and then to the pere lachaise cemetry.
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- paris for my birthday, set 2 - march 2001
i went to paris, along with my closest friend, to celebrate my birthday blading around with lots of people, and looking at grave designs. this set has more from the pere lachaise cemetry, including some of abelard and heloise's mausoleum.
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- paris for my birthday, set 3 - march 2001
i went to paris, along with my closest friend, to celebrate my birthday blading around with lots of people, and looking at grave designs. this set has shots of the eiffel tower such that i doesn't look so ugly, some of the kingfisher boat that had just returned from a round world trip, the original "statue of liberty", an interesting office block design, and one of chartres' exterior.
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- lake tahoe, nevada, usa, set 1 - summer 2000
in the summer of 2000 i went to america with bunac, in what turned in to a complete farce of anti- blue hair bigotry. i decided to come home early, but not before staying with a friend of the family living in an idyllic spot on the california/navada border. this set has some photos from the end of the st.anne's/st.john's ball, including me playing with a diablo, john and aeron taking a rest, and a [...]
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- lake tahoe, nevada, usa, set 2 - summer 2000
in the summer of 2000 i went to america with bunac, in what turned in to a complete farce of anti- blue hair bigotry. i decided to come home early, but not before staying with a friend of the family living in an idyllic spot on the california/navada border. this set has more navadan birds, plants, skies, and lola exploits.
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- lake tahoe, nevada, usa, set 3 - summer 2000
in the summer of 2000 i went to america with bunac, in what turned in to a complete farce of anti- blue hair bigotry. i decided to come home early, but not before staying with a friend of the family living in an idyllic spot on the california/navada border. this set has a big drop, another navadan bird, a north dakotan sunset, an pretty skies back in oxford.
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- st.anne's & st.john's ball 2000
each year various colleges in oxford university hold big parties, called balls. this is the one for my alma mater and its 'twin' held in st.john's grounds.
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- post mods partying - june 2000
ducks and swans - both black and white - from around the university parks in oxford, and a picnic on the angel and greyhound meadow after mathmo mods [first year exams].
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- around oxford - 2000
various photos from walking around the university parks area of oxford, including a bridget riley in wolfson college, the st.anne's college beavers, a squirrel, a swan, and some interesting plant configurations.
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- japan, set 1 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set starts in the area behinds the university parks in oxford... and has some shots of aburayama in fukuoka and the fukuoka dome baseball stadium.
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- japan, set 2 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has shots of a baseball game in fukuoka, and some of the spaceworld rollercoaster park in kitakyushu
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- japan, set 3 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has more from spaceworld rollercoaster park in kitakyushu, some from the "peace park" in nagasaki, and some of the street of temple up the top of nagasaki.
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- japan, set 4 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has more of the temple in nagasaki, and and some of spectacles bridge (meganebashi) in nagasaki, and of the koi that abound in the river below.
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- japan, set 5 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has more of nagasaki: temples, a very blue roof, a dedication to my friend's hero (his name eludes me), more koi, glover gardens..
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- japan, set 6 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has the final bits of nagasaki: the glover gardens' museum, the model of dejima island, statue to some 'martyrs', and a strange unknown sculpture... it also has the starts of kumamoto castle.
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- japan, set 7 - summer 1999
i went to japan to visit a friend, and took lots of photos... this set has more of kumamoto castle, including some of the museum inside the main castle. also some of a waterfall somewhere in central kyushu. i can't now remember where it was i was taken, which is a shame, as it was very pretty.
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- out plane window - summer 1998
coming back from norway by plane, i tried to take photos of the fairyland clouds out the window. i'm not entirely happy, but i think i'd need to hire a plane to do better.
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- walking in norway - summer 1998
i went to norway with one of my sisters to go walking up on the plateau east of bergen. it was absolutely stunning, and i definitely hope to return someday.
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- of me - summer 1998
me modeling some of my clothes in our backgarden. it was too sunny: the photos are very washed out.. also i seem to look like a jackboot in these photos, which is rather unfortunate.
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- oxford flooded - easter 1998
oxford has a number of flood plains around it, which are sometimes not controlled properly - or maybe people are building too close and so reducing the leeway - easter 1998 saw the worse flood in about half a century, maybe more. these are taken from a few hundred metres away from my then home.
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- fairford airshow - summer 1997
when i was young, i went to a fair few airshows. fairford is probably the biggest of those held annually in the uk - ticket prices are also highly unreasonable, thus this was the last year we went there.
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- ccf trip to belgium - summer 1997
as part of my time at st.edward's school, i was made to waste a year of monday afternoons marching up and down in the "combined cadet forces". we also had a couple of weekends of hell, one of which involved a coach trip to belgium, and parading at some rememberance day thing. we also visited some impressive fields of graves.
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- thrust ssc at the london motor show - 1997
thrust ssc was the first 'car' to break the speed of sound. it appeared at the london motor show before the attempt, along with the driver [andy green] and the owner/creator [richard noble]. i took some pictures.
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- dordogne - summer 1996
another family visit to the dordogne. this time my brother noticed a sleeping bat on the wall of our gite. we also went to see the tour de france.
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- dordogne - summer 1995
for a few years family went on holiday to the same gite in the dordogne. these are pictures from a very nearby castle, and its museum. the bridge is one we crossed daily to go get bread.
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- birthday cake - march 1993
in my family there is a tradition of making amusing birthday cakes based on the interests of the birthday boy or girl. this one is based on the "squaws of the hyponenus" joke.
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- kew gardens - sometime in 1993
as i kid i got taken along to kew quite a few times, as my dad walked and talked with various interesting people. these are from one of those trips - inside one of the greenhouses, and one of a peacock.
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- around london - 1992
lots of photos from the toyota in house inovation design competition exhibition at the science museum; the bike that boardman blew time trial records away on; some waxworks at madame tusauds; an interesting car in a london street; some animals at london zoo: a vulture, a panda, a gorilla, a green mamba, a penguin, a camel and a tiger.
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- western australia - 1991
i went out to australia for a month and saw some interesting bits... some animals at perth zoo, me talking to some huge magpies, the enormous size of sheep transporters, and a quoka on rock nest island.
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- whipsnade zoo - 1989
a brown bear and some flamingos at whipsnade zoo. my other photos seem to be missing in action.
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