G M Thomas FRSA FRAS
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Fellow Royal Society of Arts. Fellow Royal Asiatic Society.
Possibly better headlined 'Three lame ducks continue to believe they have some influence.'
November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Possibly better headlined 'Three lame ducks continue to believe they have some influence.'
Dirty martini. London Jazz Festival. Amazing gig by Hiromi and her band playing Sonic Wonder. Asian based friends...they're now embarking on a tour in China and Japan. It's the chance of a lifetime to see mind-blowing musicianship.
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Dirty martini. London Jazz Festival. Amazing gig by Hiromi and her band playing Sonic Wonder. Asian based friends...they're now embarking on a tour in China and Japan. It's the chance of a lifetime to see mind-blowing musicianship.
Took you recommendation @thatneilmartin.bsky.social and tried the Martini Bar at the Barbican. Good advice.
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Took you recommendation @thatneilmartin.bsky.social and tried the Martini Bar at the Barbican. Good advice.
This is a current phishing ploy. The email comes from a legitimate address (aol) but the reply goes to another address (hotmail), one that's been set up by the spam merchants. This is very easily missed as the understandable assumption is that it goes to the proper inbox.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is a current phishing ploy. The email comes from a legitimate address (aol) but the reply goes to another address (hotmail), one that's been set up by the spam merchants. This is very easily missed as the understandable assumption is that it goes to the proper inbox.
Breaking news. Grok and Musk are a twosome.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Breaking news. Grok and Musk are a twosome.
Marugame. Seto Inland Sea. 2025.
#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Marugame. Seto Inland Sea. 2025.
#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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#seascape #BlueSkyMonday
#BlueSkyArt #photography #EastCoastKin
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Card From The Cotswolds is a short documentary dating from 1955 and filmed by Eric Owen. These are pub scenes that include a cockerel drinking beer. Gravity pumps and a barrel on the bar.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Card From The Cotswolds is a short documentary dating from 1955 and filmed by Eric Owen. These are pub scenes that include a cockerel drinking beer. Gravity pumps and a barrel on the bar.
Well we now know the immediate impact of the Chinese government's exhortation that its citizens refrain from travelling to Japan. The South China Morning Post reports that over the last few days there have been over 400,000 flight cancellations by Chinese tourists. (Image by Cecil Beaton.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well we now know the immediate impact of the Chinese government's exhortation that its citizens refrain from travelling to Japan. The South China Morning Post reports that over the last few days there have been over 400,000 flight cancellations by Chinese tourists. (Image by Cecil Beaton.)
Seto Ohashi Bridge. 2024. #SetoInlandSea #Setouchi #瀬戸大橋 #SetoŌhashi #classicmonochrome #Stunday #architecture #Japan
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November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Seto Ohashi Bridge. 2024. #SetoInlandSea #Setouchi #瀬戸大橋 #SetoŌhashi #classicmonochrome #Stunday #architecture #Japan
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Seto Inland Sea. A view from Megijima. July 2025.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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November 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seto Inland Sea. A view from Megijima. July 2025.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin #Setouchi
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A Cotswold woodland.
#Scape
#ForestFriday
#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArt
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#Scape
#ForestFriday
#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin
#BlueSkyArt
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November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The crescent moon and trees. But a storm is on the way so time to batten down the hatches.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The crescent moon and trees. But a storm is on the way so time to batten down the hatches.
The Peacock Skirt has clear Japanese influences.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Peacock Skirt has clear Japanese influences.
#UrbanGaze. Looking down on Yokohama's waterfront. An excellent example of urban development, creating a place for people's enjoyment.
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
#UrbanGaze. Looking down on Yokohama's waterfront. An excellent example of urban development, creating a place for people's enjoyment.
Rewatching classic Japanese films as the nights draw in.
Onibaba 鬼婆. One of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
Onibaba 鬼婆. One of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Rewatching classic Japanese films as the nights draw in.
Onibaba 鬼婆. One of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
Onibaba 鬼婆. One of the most innovative films made for mainstream cinema: a single setting; Hikaru Hayashi’s soundtrack of percussion, brass, screams, and director Kaneto Shindo's vision.
PAUL CAPONIGRO (1932-2024)
Hiei-San, Kyoto.
Being auctioned as part of the Gene Hackman estate.
Strange how one of the best temple images ever seen does not involve the usual AI or over processed slop posted on social media.
Hiei-San, Kyoto.
Being auctioned as part of the Gene Hackman estate.
Strange how one of the best temple images ever seen does not involve the usual AI or over processed slop posted on social media.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
PAUL CAPONIGRO (1932-2024)
Hiei-San, Kyoto.
Being auctioned as part of the Gene Hackman estate.
Strange how one of the best temple images ever seen does not involve the usual AI or over processed slop posted on social media.
Hiei-San, Kyoto.
Being auctioned as part of the Gene Hackman estate.
Strange how one of the best temple images ever seen does not involve the usual AI or over processed slop posted on social media.
Even BSky is increasingly bedevilled by fake news being reposted.
This article - I'm certainly not giving it oxygen through posting a link - is fake news, based on an old interview, taken out of context.
Various versions popping up across social media.
This article - I'm certainly not giving it oxygen through posting a link - is fake news, based on an old interview, taken out of context.
Various versions popping up across social media.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Even BSky is increasingly bedevilled by fake news being reposted.
This article - I'm certainly not giving it oxygen through posting a link - is fake news, based on an old interview, taken out of context.
Various versions popping up across social media.
This article - I'm certainly not giving it oxygen through posting a link - is fake news, based on an old interview, taken out of context.
Various versions popping up across social media.
Some, indeed many songwriters will say that ppl don't buy pop songs for the lyrics but the music.
Post Beatles Paul McCartney illustrates the point:
Say you don't love him, my salamander
Why do you need him?
Oh no, don't answer, oh no
I'm getting closer
I'm getting closer to your heart
Post Beatles Paul McCartney illustrates the point:
Say you don't love him, my salamander
Why do you need him?
Oh no, don't answer, oh no
I'm getting closer
I'm getting closer to your heart
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Some, indeed many songwriters will say that ppl don't buy pop songs for the lyrics but the music.
Post Beatles Paul McCartney illustrates the point:
Say you don't love him, my salamander
Why do you need him?
Oh no, don't answer, oh no
I'm getting closer
I'm getting closer to your heart
Post Beatles Paul McCartney illustrates the point:
Say you don't love him, my salamander
Why do you need him?
Oh no, don't answer, oh no
I'm getting closer
I'm getting closer to your heart
Recently rewatched the film adaptation of The Remains Of The Day. It has one weakness: it gives the impression that before WW2 the desire for appeasement was held by a small number of the Establishment. This is untrue not least as all the major British newspapers backed the idea.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Recently rewatched the film adaptation of The Remains Of The Day. It has one weakness: it gives the impression that before WW2 the desire for appeasement was held by a small number of the Establishment. This is untrue not least as all the major British newspapers backed the idea.
Like Ian Penman in the London Review of Books, Eno's diaries remains a favourite read:
"... in its casual self-revelation: funny, ribald, a great time capsule. He drinks, leches, smokes fags, dances with his young daughters."
They can be easily tracked down online.
"... in its casual self-revelation: funny, ribald, a great time capsule. He drinks, leches, smokes fags, dances with his young daughters."
They can be easily tracked down online.
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Like Ian Penman in the London Review of Books, Eno's diaries remains a favourite read:
"... in its casual self-revelation: funny, ribald, a great time capsule. He drinks, leches, smokes fags, dances with his young daughters."
They can be easily tracked down online.
"... in its casual self-revelation: funny, ribald, a great time capsule. He drinks, leches, smokes fags, dances with his young daughters."
They can be easily tracked down online.
Hydrangea. Nov 2025.
#MonoMonday #classicmonochrome #photography #nature #autumn
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#MonoMonday #classicmonochrome #photography #nature #autumn
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November 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hydrangea. Nov 2025.
#MonoMonday #classicmonochrome #photography #nature #autumn
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#MonoMonday #classicmonochrome #photography #nature #autumn
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Looking over the Mediterranean Sea from near Cannes. Sept. 2023.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin
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#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin
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November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Looking over the Mediterranean Sea from near Cannes. Sept. 2023.
#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin
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#BlueSkyArtShow #photography #stunday #BlueSkyMonday #landscape #scape #clouds #seascape #nature #travel #photohour #EastCoastKin
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The last few days of Autumn colours in the Cotswolds.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The last few days of Autumn colours in the Cotswolds.
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Brief introduction to an early female photographer.
Candace McCormick Reed (1818-1900). She married Warren Reed in 1842 in St. Louis after which they move to Quincy, Illinois. Here the Reeds opened a daguerreotype gallery in 1848.
Candace McCormick Reed (1818-1900). She married Warren Reed in 1842 in St. Louis after which they move to Quincy, Illinois. Here the Reeds opened a daguerreotype gallery in 1848.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Brief introduction to an early female photographer.
Candace McCormick Reed (1818-1900). She married Warren Reed in 1842 in St. Louis after which they move to Quincy, Illinois. Here the Reeds opened a daguerreotype gallery in 1848.
Candace McCormick Reed (1818-1900). She married Warren Reed in 1842 in St. Louis after which they move to Quincy, Illinois. Here the Reeds opened a daguerreotype gallery in 1848.
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM