Afternoon light, Wimbledon, November 2025

Amen Corner

Give Me None

A negation of welcome, a monument to exclusion. Emma Lazarus’s lines, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” - became the secular scripture of American hospitality. This image turns that creed on its axis. A monumental, solitary arm in bright gilt, raised in a hard stop - “do not pass, do not enter” - now occupies the plinth where Lady Liberty and her torch once signalled welcome and arrival. “Give Me None” is not parody but cancellation: an economy of words that reauthor the promise as refusal. The amputated anatomy matches the policy it critiques - government by gesture, ethics traded for enforcement. By echoing the grammar of Lazarus, the image routes its charge through cultural memory; the viewer cannot help hearing the original while reading its inversion. Between invitation and interdiction lies the distance from myth to practice.

Caravan, lamppost, scaffolding, Audi

Red light in the wondow

Lovell Telescope, 1979

The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 metres (250 feet) in diameter. It was originally known as the "250 ft telescope" or the Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, before becoming the Mark I telescope around 1961 when future telescopes (the Mark II, III, and IV) were being discussed. It was renamed to the Lovell Telescope in 1987 after Sir Bernard Lovell, and became a Grade I listed building in 1988. The telescope forms part of the MERLIN and European VLBI Network arrays of radio telescopes. Taken on a school trip in 1979.

Entrance to Highfort Court

Ernest George Trobridge (1884-1942), architect, designed some of the more unusual houses in Kingsbury, North West London. His buildings are striking and are largely one of two styles: either thatched elm wood cottage style or ornate houses with twisted chimneys or turrets and battlements. Because Kingsbury is not a highly desirable area, most of Trobridge’s amazing houses are not in the condition they deserve to be. This image was produced using three bracketed exposures of the same subject, combined and tonemapped using Photomatix Pro software, to produce a single High Dynamic Range image - which reveals far more detail and colour than a single exposure. The image was then tweaked some more in Photoshop CS.

Gates at Diprose Lodge

Diprose Lodge is the gatehouse to the former St Clement Danes almshouses on Garratt Lane, Tooting. The almshouses were built in 1848–1849 by the St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity to house elderly parishioners, laid out in a Gothic Revival red‑brick complex with a central chapel, wings around formal gardens, and Diprose Lodge at the entrance on Garratt Lane. They were Grade II listed (almshouses in 1955; lodge in 1980). In 1964 the site was sold to Wandsworth for council housing; later refurbished, and today the enclave—often called Diprose Lodge—comprises around 40 homes, a mix of privately owned properties and council-managed residences.

UAP

I staged this photo when I was a boy, some time around 1976, with my first camera - a Kodak Instamatic using 110 film. I found it again recently while sorting through some scans. The trick was simple: stick something to the window so it looks like it’s floating in the sky.

Goodman's Yard, London E1

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