• An older person sitting on a concrete bench in the shade, looking at his mobile phone, being watched by a second person. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Commentary,  Life

    Dinosaur: Your Time Has Long Gone

    I've never considered myself to be old, at least, not until the doctors starting telling me I really needed to lie down on the operating table and have a few things done to keep the old pump beating. And, to a certain extent, I still do not consider myself to be old despite what others might claim: I have been referred to as Grandpa, and the Old Man by various people

  • A homeless musician playing a self-made guitar - strings strung across the length of a common shovel - in Bremen. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    City Life,  Commentary

    It’s Not Always What You Can See

    I took the header photograph to this post back in June 2024, at a time when I was more active with my camera, travelling to many cities across the country, and making great plans for the future. Not, I hasten to add, my first great plans for the future, merely the latest ones. In the past I have written books, short stories, magazine articles and other papers for publication.

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  • A possibly homeless person sleeping across his rucksack on a bench. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Life

    A Place For Everything

    I am fairly sure that most people, perhaps more likely the older, but younger may have been subjected to this too, know the phrase: " A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place." I heard it constantly uttered as a child, but always from my grandparents, never anyone else. Perhaps it is a thing which springs over a generation now and then, as those on the receiving end vow never to repeat what they have experienced in their youth,

  • A small child alone, in Osnabrück, Germany. Copyright: Urban Camera 2024.
    Commentary,  Life

    A Time for Thought and Reflection

    At what age do we take a step back from life and ask what it is that we are doing, or what have we done, and has it all been worthwhile? Is there just one point in our life, or are there many? Do we just charge headlong into whatever is before us and see what comes and then, when it is all done and through, when we get to the other side, stop and glance back at what has happened? And, what is it that makes us stop and consider, reflect?

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