thanks to everyone who has commented on the pictures. There are large parts of the Thames shoreline which are very deep alluvial mud - it is a natural part of the river system this far downstream whatever the state of cleanliness. I don't know whether or not the beach is natural - perhaps the Mayor of London had the sand stolen from Jamaica.
There is another quite large sand beach - about 150m long - almost opposite me on the north bank. It is surrounded by council housing (public housing) and used by local people a lot in summer for sunbathing and so on. I've never taken pictures there but it's so incongruous and little-known that I mean to get some shots there at some time. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rick Womer > Sent: 20 October 2008 02:26 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Two shots from the South Bank > > Bob, > > It says a lot about the current state of the Thames that > there is a beach there instead of knee-deep malodorous muck > (as there was as recently as 1982). > > Both of your photos are great--the timing and compostion are > excellent, and the juxtaposition of the BW photos with the > color in the second is very striking. > > The Magnum exhibition is as unsettling as it is meant to be. > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > --- On Sun, 10/19/08, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had a walk along the South Bank today. Some kids were > > larking about > > on one of the beaches: > > > > http://www.web-options.com/SB.jpg > > > > The purpose of the walk was to get to the Royal Festival > > Hall where > > there is an exhibition by a group of Magnum photographs > > about > > present-day slavery. It's a very powerful exhibition > > and well worth > > visiting. As a one-off today there was a live choir with > > piano > > accompaniment performing old spirituals very beautifully > > and > > effectively. > > > > Perhaps the most moving of the exhibits is by Chris > > Steele-Perkins - > > portraits and the individual stories of South Korean women > > who were > > forced to work as sex slaves - "Comfort Women" - > > during WW2. The > > gesture of this woman reading a caption seemed like a > > Japanese bow. I > > shot from the hip, and got lucky: > > > > http://www.web-options.com/SB2.jpg > > > > Link to Magnum's page about the exhibition: > > > http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Exhibition > > Detail_VPage&pid=29YL5304F234 > > > > http://tinyurl.com/5p7msu > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > > directly above and follow the directions. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
