Rain, Steam And Speed

There's a famous painting by William Turner that I've always wanted to pay homage to. To begin with, the perspective isn't the same. There won't be no steam-powered train rushing by. Nevertheless, I like the pictures below.

Hamburg, Germany.

February 2011.

35mm film.

Check out these awesome videos: #1 and #2


Have a great evening.


- Dom

Tomorrow Never Knows

Ringo. 

He'll be 11 years old in May.

35mm film.

Rocket To The Moon

Lake District, 2005.

Golden Gate Bridge, 2009.

35mm film.

Here hangs an open landscape

A wild and huge frontier

From a harsh and barren wasteland

Through the grave to the promised field

You came, you trapped, you charted

You laid the railroads and the schemes

And you tamed this land by enterprise

And by the power of your dreams

But you made this clan great

And you made this nation bloom

And you rose with your people

Through the new world

Like a rocket to the moon

(Runrig - Rocket To The Moon)

You Better Start Swimming Or You'll Sink Like A Stone

The Alster Lake.

Hamburg, Germany.

February 2011.

I had to go to university early today to pick up a couple books at the library. The campus is close to the Alster Lake, and this morning the weather was much too beautiful to go home right away... so I decided to walk along the lakefront for a while. It's amazing how different the scenery looks at night. 

Click here for an article on the National Geographic website that made my day. I've read a few articles and seen a documentary about the underwater cave systems on the Yucatan Peninsula in the past. This article is so well-written that I felt the same excitement the divers must've felt. 

Wherever you may be, I hope you're enjoying a sunny day, too.

- Dom

Transmission

Ham Common, Richmond. UK.

2006 / 2007.

Well I could call out when the going gets tough

The things that we've learnt are no longer enough

No language, just sound, that's all we need to know

To synchronise love to the beat of the show

(Joy Division - Transmission)

As time goes by, you forget a lot of stuff while some memories will stay with you forever. The places you loved the best will always look a certain way to you, hidden in the depths of your memory... captured inside some part of your brain for the rest of your life, the way not even a picture could do. 

The place above was a common sight to me; I often passed by Ham Common, looking out of the 65 bus going from Richmond to Kingston and vice versa. Me and my mates met up on Ham Common on weekends to play football (for Americans: "Me and my buddies met up on Ham Common on weekends to play soccer"). I also passed by Ham Common on my way to Murray's barbershop. 

Have a nice day.

- Dom