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Sorry folks for lack of transmission…took another dive so been recuperating…to be honest I haven’t really found my feet since the beginning of this year and have been mostly housebound but was determined to continue doing this blog as gave me a focus and a purpose and kept me connected to the outside world. And I managed to maintain for the most part..albeit in heavily restricted circumstance. Every day I try to get out of the house and go for a short walk, to stretch, to attempt the microscopic amount of exercise I can currently tolerate and to stop myself going bat shit crazy being stuck indoors 24/7.

So all photographs you have seen this year were taken within 1500 steps of my flat as that has been my total capacity for walking. And yet, as small as my world has shrunk I found I still had a vast array of material for observation, thanks largely to the teeming life present on Portobello Rd. And no matter how shit I felt I always saw something I wanted to try and photograph. And a lot slipped through my net but I still managed to capture some gems along the way. When I am out the other side of this thing my next photo book is going to be called 1500 steps and will show that even in the smallest of spaces there is always still so much to see…

But right now I need to focus on my recovery some more so am going to take an extended break..as my dedicated followers will know I always take off August anyway so have just started my summer hiatus a little early this year…

Take care and hope to see you in the Autumn!

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Caught on camera this week. Them by me and me by them.

I like the contrast in this shot above as she is pissed off about it but he seems chuffed.

They all feature in my ongoing series ‘dead in the mincers’ which is cockney rhyming slang for staring right at you…mincers = mince pies =eyes. Not really difficult to see why it’s a dying language.

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Moments of stillness on a world in motion….

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Some random colourful characters this week..I have to say I am never not infinitely excited by the variety of human beings in my field of vision. No two are the same. Each one a construct of millions of inherited ingredients fused together with millions of micro decisions that shape them into the person they are which, in turn, mutates and evolves every day. This is why I am never bored people watching.

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Where there are coloured brick houses there are photo shoots..people (mostly females) come from far and wide for quality eye candy backdrop like these. And let’s face it, those feeds ain’t gonna feed themselves…

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