Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Places’ Category
Sea Odyssey Day 3
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012The third and final day of Sea Odyssey in Liverpool today. I’d planned on having a lie in today but I found myself there before it started. The weather was terrible with freezing wind coming off the Mersey and rain sheeting down. Despite that got some good pictures of the sleeping pair and once they […]
Sea Odyssey Day 2
Saturday, April 21st, 2012Rushed round to get my Saturday chores done early then into Liverpool city centre for the second day of the Sea Odyssey. Picked up the Little Girl Giant and her dog as they went along the Strand. Decided to cut across the city centre to further up the route and got a good spot to […]
Sea Odyssey Day 1
Friday, April 20th, 2012Took a late lunch today and went down to the Albert Dock in Liverpool to see the emergence of Uncle which is one of the giant figures performing throughout the city as part of Sea Odyssey this weekend. Took over 300 photographs in less than 45 minutes and reducing them down to a few to […]
Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011
Thursday, August 4th, 2011I really enjoyed visiting the Design Museum, London, last year so I was pleased I managed to get down to London to see the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2011 a few weekends ago. I’ve picked out a few of my favourite entries in the gallery. I didn’t get a picture of Margaret Howell […]
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Last weekend I took myself to London to throw myself round a series of exhibitions. One of the highlights was going to see the 2011 Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens by Peter Zumthor. I’d only seen shots of the outside and have to admit I was a bit concerned it was going […]
Paul Trevor – Like you’ve Never Been Away
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011In a smaller gallery next to the Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Paul Trevor of inner city Liverpool taken in 1975. The exhibition features a sequence of stunning images that reflect both the poverty and material decay that afflicted inner city life in the 1970s. Most […]
Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911
Thursday, July 7th, 2011The Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery celebrates the centenary of the 1911 exhibition of Post-Impressionist works and local avant-garde artists at the Bluecoat (The Sandon Studios Society exhibition of Modern Art including work by the Post-Impressionists). The breadth of styles is breath-taking – there are works by van Gogh, Gauguin […]
Dark Reflections
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011I think this is the first time DarkDwarf and I have independantly taken photographs of the same thing for our blogs. Here is a shot of the Port of Liverpool Building reflected in Mann Island Development I took a couple of weeks ago but fell through the cracks of being busy doing other things. Scarily […]
Royal Insurance Building Dome Liverpool
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011The golden dome on the Royal Insurance Building in Dale Street stands out on Liverpool’s skyline. 34m (110ft) above Street level is the highest point on the Grade II* listed building started in 1897 and finished in 1903. Sadly J Francis Doyle’s Edwardian Baroque building has been derelict for most of my time in Liverpool.
Lewis Building Liverpool, Liverpool Resurgent
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010With the cold weather here’s another photograph from earlier in the year… a different view of Liverpool Resurgent over the entrance to the former Lewis’s Department Store.