So, um, I've been taking photographs.

Mostly these are of buildings and mostly they're strictly for my own reference. I keep intending to do a picspam of some of the pictures of buildings I've taken on the offchance that someone out there might be interested, but it'll take quite a lot of rooting around and right now I want to update fast and then try and do some writing. So I'm going to picspam with something else: photograps of the sunset taken from the hallowed location of My Bedroom Window. Sometimes I stand on the fridge to do this, sometimes I lean suicidally out, a lot of the time I just point the camera and pray, but occasionally the results are pretty.

My windows are, I guess, mostly south-facing. They've pretty much got to be given that on yay side of the window I get a sunset every evening and on yay side, if I stick my head out and am up early enough, there's a corresponding sunrise. I don't tend to pay much attention to the sunrises, I admit: maybe it's just observer bias, but they never seem quite as interesting to me.

I do have quite a lot of pictures of south London sunsets, though, which can sometimes be surprisingly pretty.


I think these are in vaguely chronological order, though precisely when over the last couple months each of those pictures was taken I wouldn't care to guess. Except the one at the bottom right which was taken yesterday.

Images are thumbnailed, so if anybody out there really is that interested in getting a better look at what the sun's doing over a set of rather uninteresting back gardens, the option is there. Though, being as I'm still getting to grips with taking photos that don't look like ass, some of them may be better left with all their sins carefully veiled by smallness. The smaller I make my pictures, the better I look at taking them... even if a couple of these do have shameful guest appearances by windowframes and other protuberances which I really should see about editing out but don't trust myself to.

I sometimes wonder if my digital camera resents my pretensions or is just glad I'm not taking shot after shot of gurning blonde drunks.