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For my thirtieth birthday I was given a little tiny digital camera. Sometimes I take pictures with it and put them on upline. Occasionally I scan in old photos and put them up online.
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Bits of train stations
A trip from London to Cardiff and back - and just think of all the things that I could have experienced! And what did I experience? Almost bloody nothing. Train to Cardiff. Cab to BBC Cardiff. Talk for a couple of hours. Can to train station. Train to London. Tube back home. So what did I take pictures of? Bits of bloody train stations...
Firstly - a few bits of Paddington's roof - the newer parts that is - the curves, the lights. It's elegant and wonderful.
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Other bits of the roof have this tremendously arcane quality - god knows when this part of the roof was assembled, but look at it - it's like the membranes of a insect's wing! A huge, crumbling, monstrous wing!
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Those struts and panes - structural and elegant - lines slim and piled upon one another - half scaffolding and half greenhouse. This station - halfway towards Cardiff - really appealled to me...
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The light in Cardiff in the early evening was honey-coloured and smooth. It's all tiles and smooth banisters - architecture that was designed to weather well and last. You can tell that it's struggled with the pressures put upon it - but it feels lived-in, homely - and weirdly British...
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A pure and elegant vanishing-point - lines disappearing into the distance, segmented into blues, blacks, reds and yellows. A stunningly beautiful image from Cardiff station...
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Back in London - and like an image directly out of the Industrial Revolution the monstrous carcass of Paddington stretches before you. You can almost smell my exhaustion. To home. And to bed!
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