Rising 170 metres (557 feet) above Portsmouth harbour, the elegant and sculptural Spinnaker Tower was inspired by the shape of a sail. Building costs totalled just over 35 million pounds. In the first shot below, the black rectangle at the top is the largest glass floor in Europe. More of my Portsmouth photos here.

A photographer’s blog with no images, only words describing the photographs he did not take. Missed opportunities with no camera, or occasions where he was not brave enough to click the shutter. Vivid and often poignant, www.unphotographable.com.

Added some shots taken at the wartime codebreaking establishment Bletchley Park to my main gallery here.

Looking like something captured by an endoscope, it’s actually just half a lemon (with a bit of processing in Paint Shop Pro).

It’s amazing how many more stars the camera picks up then the human eye. Here’s a shot straight from camera, which is more or less how it looked to the eye.

Here’s the same shot (cropped a little) processed to bring out the fainter stars. Of course it helps if you’re in an area with low light pollution from street lights etc. I took this in Snowdonia.

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Detail from wall decoration

Looking vertically from the bottom of a wall alcove

Steps

Decoration on gate

Detail from gate

Added some shots taken in Snowdonia to my main gallery here.

Thought provoking and sometimes disturbing, photojournalist images from Reuters here.

Some shots of the cathedral and nearby University of Surrey.

Looking like a sort of amphitheatre enclosed by a wall, this is a view looking vertically up the side of the cathedral from within an arched recess.

Sculpture (University of Surrey).

Stained glass reflection on wall
(colours enhanced).

Security Camera (University of Surrey).

Alan Turing (University of Surrey).

“Seven joined in one”, motto of the Household Division
(referring to the seven regiments).

Dalek?