363 OXFORD STREET
SITE OF THE ORIGINAL HMV STORE
OPENED BY SIR EDWARD ELGAR IN JULY 1941.
IN 1962 IT PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE CAREER OF THE BEATLES. A 78RPM DEMO DISC OF THE BAND WAS CUT IN THE STORE'S RECORDING STUDIO; THIS LED TO THE BEATLES' LONG-TERM RECORDING CONTRACT WITH EMI.

And then there's me photographing this person photographing Vermeer's Milkmaid #photography

Life is hard aboard ship below decks

I shot this through a gauze curtain covering a window looking into the atrium at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The colour is entirely from the tones of the curtain.

The wording on the window says ‘Perfected Icon’

That's neat - something I didn't know - that it's possible to set up an app password for Bluesky and give it to Buffer without giving the actual Bluesky login password.

Is this new, or just something new to me?

Meanwhile, going back over old India photos:

In Rome the gulls are less wary than at home

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