Photos of things

Here i have assorted a collection of pictures from my recent past to give you a few tasters of what I got up to over the years. There's some samples from holidays, some interesting sights I managed to snap. Mostly the pictures show only part of the bigger picture, so I have included short stories.

This is the first of a scene from Londons' brick lane, a place so bustling and enclosed the cacophony of talking, coffee machines and traders become almost a physical presence of sound. This is interrupted and compounded by, some great graffiti, smells of fresh food and trendy people wearing fashionable hipster outfits.

Here is Glastonbury 2016, Casabian playing here, but I will never forget watching the sun rise on the final night on the stone circle hill. There was a celebratory shout as we first all saw the sprawling city-site before us light up with the first rays, small fires around us being deserted after becoming inconsequential. About 2 hours later I had to pack my bags to get to the rondevous with my class trip bus on its way to Cornwall, it was a bit surreal.

Here in Paris is the Notre Dame, but further down the path in the photo there is a man painting with a view of the riverbank, but painting a face screaming, pretty odd stuff, but a beautiful view and a fantastic picture.

We took the trip down there in a white van with lots of duvets, mattresses and food in the back, but no lights apart from that coming from the gap between the front seats and the roof, blocked out by the seats just behind that so we were very happy to get out and explore, even the painting man was a spectacle.

Here is a tiger from a sanctuary in Thailand, I don't know how they stand the seething heat but they do. They're drugged so they don't care what happens, that's mainly for the punters safety, there are many campaign groups saying its unethical but that's the only real way to keep them from taking chunks out of not so innocent paying customers. The question - is it worth it?

The trip was fantastic with a moment where we were part of the holy festival of Songkran, where people take time off work and off school to get bowls, water guns and trucks with tanks and hoses to soak anybody in sight. Its very stressful as well as fun because you spend the whole day in fear of getting soaked all over again, often just after you've got dry.

Here is a a picture of mont blanc, the tallest mountain in the alps. Up there is a museum accessible by tracks historically carved into the mountainside. I was there on a science trip and was amazed to get visually shown its magnitude. Its so high up it has glaciers.

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