Lighting the Fuse

Its been a while, but I thought I would continue my little series on impressive superyachts. This is one that is very different to the first one (which was the ultra modern SeaForceOne). The absolutely beautiful Nero is however not old. Just not modern. She is in fact brand new, having been constructed in 2008 […]

These photos were taken on an end-of-rainy season trip to a local market for local people this year in Siem Reap in Cambodia. The Old Market is a great mixture of colourful stalls, merchandise and characters. All images are subject to copyright.

There are loads of iconic images that came from the moon landings and subsequent trips into space. I recently was at a presentation, and someone included this image which I had never seen. Apparently it has been recently released by NASA. It shows a young Neil Armstrong and is taken shortly after his return from […]

The United Colours of Benetton advertising has always courted controversy. Remember this one from 1991? Well they have done it again, with images probably inspired by this iconic 1979 image of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honeker then the leader of the German Democratic Republik. For an excellent explanation of the history of the kiss that […]

Love these photos of cities in the clouds. First up Dubai (you can almost imagine Sheikh Zayed Road running between the buildings, although i have to say that this image always looked a little photo shopped to me?) Next up San Francisco of course, a city that looks great in the clouds. Luckily. Woolworth’s tower in the […]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is officially the most expensive photo. Ever. The Andreas Gursky photo has just been sold by auction at Christie’s for the eye-watering sum of USD 4,338,000 presumably to an anonymous buyer who likes rivers. Click here to see the Christie’s page for the auction  lot. Admittedly it is a very BIG photograph, which […]

I know, I know…. boo to war etc. I agree of course, but there is still something pretty awesome about these images. And then there are these which look frightening! Are they real people? If so, they are all adopting interesting and very different positions as they fly through the air!

So this is frightening. Not really much to say here, other than: Watch the video and follow the instructions. Creepy huh. If you want to know more about why this happens / what tricks you mind is playing on you, then check out the link here.

Wow. Some of these pics are a tad  on the disturbing side, many are also incredibly beautiful. Amazing to see what Barbie is up to these days! Certainly the attention to detail in each of these scenes is incredible, even if the subject matter of what Barbie is getting up to is, well, less cool. […]

These pictures were taken by photographer Tim Allen, while the BBC was shooting a recent programme called “Human Planet“. I actually missed the programme (will def catch up with it on iplayer). But the images that Allen took are incredible and even just on their own, even more so with his own storytelling of how […]