Gifted Typist

Give me a camera and put me in a city like New York with its energy, history, hustle, architecture, art, characters and icons and I’m in heaven. Here is my photo essay of my excellent weekend in New York. Or you can go to directly to Flickr for more explanation of the shots.

So, I go to New York City anticipating the gruff rudeness you’d expect of the Big Apple ….
And what do I get?
Some of the friendliest, warmest, nicest people I’ve ever met on city streets.
Huh?
New Yorkers were falling over themselves to offer directions or point out the sites. When they saw you with a camera, they […]

Update: Yup, you’re right about the comments. I’ve darkened them and made them larger. Check it out. I’ve also increased the size of the font in the posts. This theme isn’t widgetized, meaning I have to go into the code to make changes in the sidebars.
This “What Not To Wear” blog styling exercise will not […]

I thought you might enjoy this email. I wrote it to our local bridge commission in the hope of obtaining a pay-in-advance pass to cross our city’s two lovely suspension bridges. They are promoting these passes as a replacement for tokens which will be banned in two months time. You’d might think they would make […]

It was sixteen years ago today that I stood barefoot on a beach in Fiji and tied the knot, got hitched, fused, welded together, or whatever your romantic metaphor for getting married.
It was a spontaneous thing, growing out of a beach conversation that went something like this:
I wouldn’t mind getting married.
Me neither.
They’d sure be surprised […]

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I’m not normally one to gawk, but my word, women’s breasts seem to be getting big these days.
Honestly, the number of supersized hooters bobbing around St. Maarten was absolutely breathtaking. And virtually all of these super boobs were supported by the most minimalist of pouch-and-string bikinis. It’s like the place was […]

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A week in this French/Dutch Caribbean island brought some fantastic seascapes, skyscapes and lightscapes for a typist on the roam with a camera.
Sadly, the UV filter on my favourite lens (Canon 17-40mm) was smashed in transit. When I uncovered the lens on the first morning I found broken […]

…I’m having a rather spiffing time here in St. Martin or Sint Maarten, depending on which side of French-Dutch border you’re on, on this Caribbean island.
The tropical depression,  now in the mid Atlantic, didn’t make a direct hit but it has churned up the sea and produced a powerful ocean swell that is now slamming the island with spectacular […]

Well, you convert it into a bar and grill, of course. Or at least that’s what they do here at Flippers..I’d heard of this place but didn’t really believe until I spotted it with my own eyes one day. It is located about an hour and a half’s drive from my house. Luckily I had […]

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, is it really midnight? Or does time really shift ahead to 1 am.
Technically, it jumps forward. I know.
But metaphysically, what happens to that hour?
Is it like your car keys or the scissors? Do you just lose it? Into thin air? Do you suddenly become one hour older? Just like […]

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A cloudy day burst into flame at the very end as the sun dropped below of line of cloud, casting orange, red and pink hues across the underside of the cloud. These shots were taken in Warwickshire in the Cotswolds, a range of hills in Central England. This is where I spent Christmas.
The colours […]

After the whirl on the London Eye, my little family of typists took a walk along the Thames River on the shortest day of the year.
By mid afternoon the air was darkening and the sky began to ripen into a rich crimson that cast a reddish glow over everything and turned objects into silhouettes.
The large […]

*Note: Had some trouble with old Flickr plug-in. Sorry for problems if you stumbled upon GT on Monday afternoon. Found a new plug-in Pictobrowser from Kumara Sastry to link Flickr pictures. You control the pace by clicking the thumbnails below. Keep going as there is a second page of thumbnail pictures. Let me know if […]

My typing has been a little patchy these past few weeks due to my travels in space and time back to my second home of Britain.
The first few days without a typewriter and regular posting felt rather like amputation, but there were distractions and I soon settled into my temporary typing hiatus (with a […]

The cat you see in left margin is called Cheddar.
Cheddar is named after the Village of Cheddar.
The cheese is also named after the village of Cheddar.
I love all of these Cheddars and right now I am lucky enough to be in the village of Cheddar for the next few days.
Cheddar is located in the South […]