Model and Vogue cover star, Lee Miller, is best known to many as Man Ray’s muse, but she was also a war photographer. I didn’t know that until recently! But then her own son only found out when he discovered his mother’s extensive archive of war photography after her death in 1997. If you’re in… Continue reading Not Just a Muse…
Happy World Book Day! A memory from the Library Hotel in Saigon.
As you head east down the Thames the river is lined with old warehouses; these days they are almost exclusively given over to restaurants and luxury apartments, but once they were the heart on London’s roaring river trade. If you look ‘wharf’ up in the dictionary it’ll give the formal origins of the word, but… Continue reading Wharf
Happy Saint David’s Day!
Medical instruments dating back to the 1700s. Forceps, blunt hooks, skull perforators, obstetric fillets. Names that send shivers down your spine.
Southbank Book Market with the National Theatre and British Film Institute in the background. One of the best parts of town to laze away a Sunday. Except today when it was at 7.5 miles of a 12 mile run. No mooching for me today!
Graffiti, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Tsminda Sameba Cathedral, Tbilisi, Georgia
