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December 28th, 2011 - New York, United States

A break from the "person or persons juxtaposed with amusing backdrop" series. Though I must confess, for me this picture would be nothing without the black and white Mondrian in the background.

By the way, I am the subject of an interview currently being featured in the "Streets of Colour" group here. In retrospect, given the name of the group, the answer I gave to the question "do you prefer colour or black and white?" was perhaps not the one they were looking for - and perhaps I shouldn't have offered such a black-and-white-heavy selection of images as examples of my favourites of my own work (a selection discreetly enriched with colour images by the interviewer), but it's always flattering when interest is shown in my "work".

December 29th, 2011 - New York, United States

By rights, this scene had "colour" screaming all over it - sure, the eye itself was in black and white, but the flames licking the bottom of the wall were bright red and yellow; the brickwork at the top was red-brown; even the road surface at the bottom was green not grey. But somehow, once I loaded it onto my computer, it only worked in monochrome. By the way, for those who are wondering, I believe the artwork was a hangover from Hallowe'en.

December 24th, 2011 - New York, United States

For the first couple of days of my end-of-year visit to New York, I was convinced I was being stalked by a man in an Elmo suit. Everywhere I went, he seemed to be there. Eventually, of course, I realized that there were several men wandering the streets of New York dressed in the same shaggy red costume, all of them hoping to collect a few dollars in return for posing in tourists' photographs. I even came across one sat on a grassy knoll in Central Park, Elmo head by his side, feverishly counting dollar bills. Sadly, in the photo I took of that scene, you couldn't see clearly enough what it was he had in his hands, otherwise it would have been just about the perfect shot.

December 29th, 2011 - New York, United States

December 29th, 2011 - New York, United States

The new year may be only four days old, but I have a feeling this may well sum up what's ahead for me in 2012. There are a lot of questions swirling around in my brain right now - the place of photography in my life being just one of them. If only I could lightbox them to see them more clearly.

A belated Happy New Year to everyone kind enough to visit my stream despite my infrequent posting, incidentally !!