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Earlier this week, fellow photographer Ian Rudgewick-Brown and I decided to take a day off and have a peek around the 2012 London Olympic Park, just to make sure everything is coming along nicely before they potentially take several hundred quid out of my account for all the tickets I applied for.

I’ve been to a lot of building sites in my time and I have to say this one is looking pretty good, still with a year to go. Hopkin’s Veledrome is done, Wilkinson Eyre’s Basketball Arena is looking good, the Village is coming along, Populous’ Stadium looks ace with the black seating and white steel and Zaha Hadid’s Aquatics Centre will be great as soon as they take out the cheeseblocks. For the first time, I was genuinely excited about Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture as well. Like the Shard, Londoners should try getting used to the skyline now as it is going to be huge.

On the way back we swung by Stanton William’s Hackney Marshes Centre as well, which is one of my favourite London projects from the last few years.

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Yesterday I spent the day on a shoot in foggy London. Generally the fog burns off by the afternoon, but not yesterday, when it remained the frustrate me for the whole day. Afterward, I met up with good mate Mr. Thomas Howlett for a drink in Borough Market and when we left the pub we were chatting about the Shard, which becomes more and more unavoidable with every day. Anyways, lit up and in the fog, it’s started to look very much like a set piece from Blade Runner.

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… then we take Berlin.

Even architectural photographers have to take a holiday once in a while.

Sorry I’ve not been about few a couple of weeks. I went off on my summer holidays to my old stomping grounds in Norfolk and then to my by-now-quite-familiar stomping grounds in Berlin. Neither of the trips were for business, which was a refreshing change, although I did take two cameras to Berlin with me as I couldn’t miss out on all that East-Berlin 60’s/70’s concrete architecture. It’s not to many tastes, but I love it. Anyways, I’m still exhausted from the trip, but I thought I’d chuck a few pics up to show you what I saw. None of the tourist sights (just whack them into google to see images of them) but quite a lot of nice little details and a few of Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which is surely one of the most moving and incredible works of Architecture in the world.

I deliberately took a couple of low-tech, lightweight cameras with me (a Holga and a Fuji Instax 210), mainly to stop me turning the entire trip into a busman’s holiday.

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I bloody love Scotland. In December Kirst found out about this place and we headed straight up there to check it out. On the side, I photographed the site and it’s surroundings for them to use in their promotional work. It’s called Cove Park and they accommodate artists on long stays to work on specific projects. Cove is on the shores of Loch long on the Rosneath Peninsula. We got damn lucky with the weather – no rain at all. Plenty of mist but that probably just added to the atmosphere of being on the Scottish moors in December.

The accommodation is in converted shipping containers, with turf roofs and interiors by Habitat.

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Back in September I took a visit to New York for a friend’s wedding. While I was there I took the time to photograph The High Line, by Field Operations. I had been planning on visiting the park, installed on the former elevated railway in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, even before a landscape designer friend of mine asked me to photograph it while I was there.

It is possibly the most beautifully detailed public spaces I’ve ever seen. It’s bloody brilliant – every city deserves something of this quality. Section Two is due for completion soon (next year, Spring, I think?) and there’s plenty of vis videos out there of how it will look. Can’t wait to go back and photograph that to.

Tim and Spirro put me up in Brooklyn, which was very decent of them, and they were great hosts. Cheers guys! I’ve been to New York a bunch of times before but never had the chance to properly explore Brooklyn so I spent a lot of time on foot dragging my camera bag about and generally getting in the way of people who have things to do during the day that amount to more than taking photographs – little do they know I’m earning a bloody living doing this.

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