Photographer; editor and writer; art researcher. Studied archaeology. Often in transit. Sun and sand, blue and white. Photo book FRENCH MEDITERRANEAN out now!

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Joined October 2011
My short coffee-table book of art film photography of Southern France is available on Amazon! (link in following post) I've put together a little video to help convey its contents and atmosphere. You only live twice.
Pleased to report that I've just released my first book of art photography! All photos in FRENCH MEDITERRANEAN 2026 are of Marseille and its sea, taken on the reposted camera. Book now available on Amazon in both digital and square-format paperback. Links below. Thank you!
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Dreamt someone donated 3 fingers to a crab. It helped them with a diving job (or ???). They were literally grafted on. But then the crab got lost and turned up in Australia. I was watching it on the news and thinking "What fucking stupid thing to do - give your fingers to a crab"
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The most beautiful nuclear test seems either to be the Soviet RDS-3 or perhaps Encelade, by France.
RDS-3 nuclear test, 42 kilotons, air burst 380 m, Semipalatinsk test site, 18 October 1951. It was the first Soviet atomic bomb dropped from an airplane.
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On l’appelle la gnôle… En 1804, Napoléon offre un privilège à ses grognards : distiller leurs propres fruits, franc de taxe. Un droit attaché à la terre, à la récolte, à l’homme. La France compte alors des millions de paysans-distillateurs. C’est la naissance du bouilleur de cru. Chaque région y met ses fruits. Calvados et cidre en Normandie, mirabelle et quetsche en Lorraine, poire en Franche-Comté, marc et lie en Bourgogne, prune d’Ente en Périgord, châtaigne en Corse. Le « cru », ici, c’est la propriété agricole, pas une appellation. On distille ce qu’on a cultivé. En 1960, ils sont encore 3 millions. L’État voit un manque à gagner colossal. Les lobbies de l’alcool industriel poussent. Le privilège héréditaire est supprimé : plus de transmission entre générations. Seul le conjoint survivant peut en user jusqu’à sa mort. La « clause du grand-père » signe l’arrêt de mort. 30 000 titulaires en l’an 2000. Quelques centaines aujourd’hui avec une moyenne d’âge de 90 ans passé. Ils s’éteignent avec leur alambic. Personne ne prendra leur suite. Napoléon voulait récompenser ceux qui nourrissaient la France. L’État fiscal a fini le travail que les tranchées n’avaient pas réussi.
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The old francs really looked magnificent.
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Unironic Cheerfulness and Goodwill Toward Others Forever
Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923 British painter) "For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow and So Say all of Us"
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I hitchhiked across Central America with Mexican friends a decade ago, but brought my first semi-serious digital camera instead of a film camera, and most of the photos were on a laptop that died. I may in the future be able to salvage those files, but for now, this is all I have
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Stormy Afternoon and night Winton,QLD the dinosaur and Boulder opal capital of Australia. – at Winton, Queensland
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Waiting for the tram. 10-30 second drawings.
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The wind howls in the rigging and only the widow remains
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Unironic Cheerfulness and Goodwill Toward Others Forever
Walter Dendy Sadler (1854-1923 British painter) "For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow and So Say all of Us"
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One of my favorite phrasal origins is chop-chop, which actually derived from a Cantonese word, gāp, meaning 'hurry'. When British sailors were in Chinese ports, they were hearing Chinese dockworkers being yelled at in Cantonese, gāp-gāp (hurry-hurry), and this was transmitted into English with basically the same meaning.
Happy National Dictionary Day! We hope you celebrate with some of your favorite words.
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These things are serious. A courtier once accidentally blew in front of Queen Elizabeth I. He was so humiliated that he exiled himself for 20 years and, on his return to court, she said to him "We have forgot the fart".
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In a sunburnt country
Lightning storm and road train outback QLD right now.
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Imperial Germany really is fascinating as a distinct civilisation, with very different attitudes to matters like colonialism to those that prevailed in Britain and France (Germany approached it in a purely pragmatic manner; no progressive talk of the white man’s burden in German newspapers and literature). This short book by Sombart, published in 1915, focuses on the cultural contrast between the Germans and the Brits.
Kaiser Wilhelm II is a striking 1895 oil portrait by Hungarian artist Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy. It depicts the last German Emperor in an elaborate Prussian parade uniform with a prominent eagle-topped helmet. The original artwork is housed in Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie.
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チャイコの1812聴いてたら夫が「これの本物の大砲のLPやばいんだよ、大砲部分のレコードの溝幅が広すぎて1発で目視できるの」て教えてくれて探してみたらめっちゃ揺れてた、これ針飛ばないんだ…!? youtu.be/bVtML5sfcdo?si=Hsvu…
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The Conquest of the Yukon
Miles Canyon, Yukon in 1898 & 1900. 🇨🇦
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It’s officially out! Go check out the new acoustic cover of cowpoke. You can find it on all streaming platforms, but here’s the link to Apple Music! music.apple.com/us/album/cow…
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I'm watching Jurassic Park. Don't think I ever saw the whole thing. What can one say— it's magical. So many great old archetypes. British-African hunter in a bush hat (sadly doomed), Richard Attenborough as the old British gentleman scientist, hyper-competent hero-scientists.
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