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20050630

Dummy


Dummy
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A naked mannequin groping itself in the window of a clothes shop (Cruise) in Newcastle upon Tyne, near the Central Library.

On Flickr this image is tagged with, amongst other, the words 'naked' and 'grope'. I wonder what effect it might have on the number of views?

20050629

Mooooo


Mooooo
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
On the town moor in Newcastle, City Freemen are allowed to graze cattle - a tradition that goes back to the twelfth century.

The cows charge at joggers from time to time, which is an amusing sight unless you happen to be the jogger in question.

20050628

Caution


Caution
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Warning of a live electric cable in a hole next to the side of the road.

20050627

Wheel Clamps


Wheel Clamps
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Taken yesterday - a road towards the east of Newcastle reflected in the window of a furniture store.

20050626

Collingwood


Collingwood
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
I've never been to this pub, but its sign has a kind of faded charm to it. Not that it's persuaded me to give the food a try.

Near the pub is a huge and very run down abandoned building that used to be a leisure centre, I think. I'm planning to go back there before too long and take some 'urban decay' snaps of the broken windows and graffiti.

20050625

Croc


Croc
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Found this in a wood in Prudhoe - someone had spent a long time carving it into the shape of a crocodile's head (the bits in the photo represent the teeth).

20050624

Demon Bunny


Demon Bunny
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Beware the hypnotic eyes of the demon rabbit!

A gargoyle above a doorway in Newcastle.

20050623

Horses


Horses
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Two healthy looking horses in a field in Northumberland.

My stock of photos from the Espion is running a little low at the moment (I have about three weeks as backup). I'm hoping that the good weather will hold until the weekend, so I can build up the reserve with the aid of some sunshine.

20050622

Tower


Tower
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Near the Laing Art Gallery.

GeoTagged
Click the link to see its location on the map.

20050621

Quadrangle


Quadrangle
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The arches at the entrance to the quadrangle, University of Newcastle.

20050620

Beware


Beware
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Graffiti on a metal fence near Ouseburn.

There's something about a fussy 'dog warning' sign that doesn't work - I always think, despite the photo of the alsation often added for effect, that the fearsome dog is probably a hyperactive Yorkshire Terrier.

With a crudely spray painted sign, on a fence that looks like it 's been reclaimed from a junkyard, less people are going to take the chance. On the balance of probability, whatever's back there is going to be big.

20050619

Bridgework


Bridgework
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A bridge between Prudhoe and Ovingham.

Geotagged
Click the link to see its location on the map.

20050618

Pheasant


Pheasant
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
I don't know what happened to this pheasant - it was nowhere near a road, so it wasn't run over. There were people walking dogs along the route, so maybe it was attacked by a dog.

20050617

View to Acomb


View to Acomb
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
The countryside in Northumberland, along the line of Hadrian's wall near Acomb (the wall in the picture is not Hadrian's wall, but there is a piece of it in the field out of shot to the left.)

Blended exposures: this is a blend of three images resulting from bracketed exposure - I wanted to capture the brightness and colour of the land without losing the definition in the sky.

20050616

Bomb It


Bomb It
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Graffiti stencil on a bridge.

20050615

Tea Bag


Tea Bag
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
I was looking through the (now volumnious) list of tags for my photos over at Flickr and realised that there's one (at least) for every letter of the alphabet. I haven't counted how many there are in total, but as a rough estimate I would say perhaps four hundred.

The tags below are either the most frequently occuring for that letter, or randomly selected if there is more than one tag with the same frequency.

Flickr tag alphabet:
Animal
Building
Car
Durham
Edinburgh
Field
Green
Haymarket
Insect
Jesmond
Knitted
Lichen
Metal
Newcastle
Old
Plant
Quayside
Reflection
Sign
Tyneside
Urban
Van
Window
Xprocessed
Yellow
Zodiac

20050614

Brown Cow


Brown Cow
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Cows on the town moor in Newcastle. I'm not geotagging this one for two reasons: the location isn't the main subject of image and the town moor is enormous, so I would have to place the tags arbitrarily.

20050613

Fire Exit


Fire Exit
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A door backing onto a quiet alleyway in Newcastle.

GeoTagged

20050612

Flowers


Flowers
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
Daisies - but because the colour didn't come out very well on the espion, it seemed better to bring out the background more.

20050611

Dog


Dog
Originally uploaded by teotwawki.
A dog tied to railings near a newsagents, which was probably where its owner had gone.