Travel Photography

Rather late in the day, though not quite the eleventh hour, I am posting my pix for thescroobiouspip’s photo challenge. The theme for February is travel.
Mine are all from Sunday’s Thames-side stroll.

Down by the Thames

I spent a long time staring at the river the other day; looking at the boats, moored and moving. They made me think of das Boot, not because they look much if anything like her, but just looking at them made me remember the movement of the boat on the water; the cosiness; the contentment I feel aboard.

Tower Bridge is always impressive, so I had to take at least one photo. Apparently, it is classified as a ship.

Tower Bridge January 2012

Although I am no speed-freak, I watched the people on this rib enviously. I’d love a go.

Red Rib

Mirror Image Seagull

A long time ago, someone told me that if I were an animal I should be a seagull. I think it was for the wheeling and flying rather than stealing people’s chips and picking over rubbish dumps, but you never know.

So maybe I could call this a mirror image?

Thames Seagull

Sunday by the Thames

I love walking beside the Thames. A lot of people think it’s dirty, but it’s the cleanest urban river in Europe, and one of the cleanest in the world. I find it quite distressing to see rubbish that people have thoughtlessly cast into it bobbing about.

Thames Rising

I’ve not defrosted my freezer since, ooh, let’s just say longer ago than I’d like to calculate, let alone admit.

I opened it at the weekend when I got back home, and knew the time had come; It Had to be Done.

It’s only one of those little ones on top of the fridge, but it was pretty full, so I had to get organised with a freezer bag and so on.

Swimming Pool

On the bus going over London Bridge this morning, a small boy, three at the most, almost fell off his seat in excitement when he saw the Thames.

‘Mum, Mum,’ he said, eyes round with ecstasy, ‘ swimming pool.’

A Beautiful Day in London

I didn’t think this was a great photo when I took it, but now I see it on the screen, I really like the reflection of the tall building in the water, and the way the green railings on the right are so clear and lead your eye to the jumbled cityscape in the distance beyond Lambeth Bridge.
I know that still doesn’t make it a great picture, but I like it.

Sun River

Thames Blue

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I knew I had to get my mosaic finished so it could be entered for the exhibition, but I thought the deadline was next week.
Wrong. It was Tuesday morning. I only realised I’d got the dates wrong on Monday evening, so it was a late night finishing it. I got to bed about one. Then I had to take it to the gallery and hope it would be given a place in the show. It was. Phew.
Now, if someone would like to buy it, that’d be lovely!