Reading room, Bristol Reference Library

Reading room, Bristol Reference Library, originally uploaded by aesop.

From a set of photos I took for the forthcoming book on the library, which celebrates its centenary this year.

Bristol Flickrmeet

Bristol Flickrmeet, originally uploaded by aesop.

the glass is half...oh

Bristol Flickrmeet, originally uploaded by aesop.

flickrmeet

...was good. About 300 pics incoming on Flickr (occasionally interesting, largely not). I may even edit them one day.

In the meantime, thanks everyone for being such good company, and happy anniversary to S&V!

Bristl Flickrmeet

Link: Bristol Flickr Meet

It's time to have a beer or two and meet some of the other people currently viewing the visual world as a series of photo opportunities. speaking for myself, I'm in a sort of exhausted, post-jaded state where I seem to have taken all the photographs I know how to take. I'm now approaching some sort of other-state where I take the photograph because it wants me to take it, rather than the other way around. I think my recent pictures are unexciting, really, but they exist now, and I'm waiting for one of them to tell me something, so I keep taking them.

Maybe I'll learn something tonight?

city of bells

city of bells, originally uploaded by aesop.

Remember remember

I was over in Compton Martin on Nov 5th to have hot Chestnut soup, smoke and fireworks. Horrendous bus journey, but worth it for the panoramic view of dozens of different folks' firework shows going off all at once.

The Remembrancer

redkeybluecastle

redkeybluecastle, originally uploaded by aesop.

at Super Sari Sari

at Super Sari Sari, originally uploaded by aesop.

 

at Plan 9/LOT

at Plan 9/LOT, originally uploaded by aesop.

self portrait

self portrait, originally uploaded by aesop.

 

raj picnic

raj picnic, originally uploaded by aesop.

Note the tiffin canisters and the cameras lying around all over the place. The original photographer of most of these pictures was (we think) the man on the right, whose Jack Russell dog (also pictured) the sharp eye can pick out roaming the mountain landscape in several shots.

temple

temple, originally uploaded by aesop.

Mountain pass

mountains4, originally uploaded by aesop.

This photo relates to The Remembrancer, an artists' book I produced several years ago, with the assistance of Richard Asplin, who salvaged these photos, (along with the invitation to the Lord Mayor's Banquet, 1933) from the trash.

stone

stone, originally uploaded by aesop.

This little stone comes from the shore in South Queensferry, where I grew up. I've had it on my desk for several years, reminding me where I come from. I use it as a sort of meditation aid and "worry bead". I know its contours and composition so well I can handle it in my imagination almost as well as real life. It's partly quartz, so the light shines through, it's cool and smooth. It means a lot to me.

bz

bz, originally uploaded by aesop.

soon to be realized as a gigantic steel sculpture over Bristol.

Nah, just wishful thinkin'.

We only get ships'n'engineerin'n'ships hereabouts. How about a monument to CIDER?

from Southey diary

from Southey diary, originally uploaded by aesop.

 

"H. Roberts-Lewis"

"H. Roberts-Lewis", originally uploaded by aesop.

 

at Bath

at Bath, originally uploaded by aesop.