zarl made a comment saying that he “enjoyed my nicely illustrated mapping adventures”. The last photos that I took were 3 weeks ago, because I use Mapillary to store the photos & their site had become dog-slow after an upgrade (it seems to have improved now, so I can stop my desktop surveying & restart doing it on the ground again soonish).

So, here for zarl are a couple of new photos from previous sessions. The first above was taken at Car Wash Factory on Cavendish Road in Carlton, and looks halfway decent at full-screen. One of the things that I find interesting in this is the way that both men in the photo know that they are being photographed (it took a couple of minutes, as I struggled to get the framing correct) but studiously behave as if that was not happening. Natural actors!

The final one is of Hilltop Dry Cleaners on Carlton Hill. What I like about this one is that, if you look carefully, you can see father & son through the door looking back at me as I photograph their shop. I’ve seen things like that before in old photos from the early days of photography. When I first saw those old photos I thought it quaint, but I now realise it to be the mark of paternal & filial pride in accomplishment. Of course, those old films last for hundreds of years, whereas these modern ones will be lucky to last for 5: