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Shots from a boring nostalgic weekend Lovely Rita Meter Maid was here Faster than the London pigeons Dropped a note on the Little Red Riding Hood She had a ticket to ride I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Fast and Curious Gallery
We live in the virtual reality age The old words of lost wisdom once said At the beginning, there was the light In the long forgotten times before the Egyptian oldest dynasties Which, in a deft choice of words to disguise our ignorance, we call pre-historic There was no electricity but there was the light […]
Squeezed out by reality in haphazard encounters of the fifth kind Pretty young ones pass by like silvery fish in a tumultuous river They escape in a flash leaving searing memories In our digital age images are served without a silver tray As Charles Beaudelaire wisely laid his poetic lines “It is the hour to […]
Like the beautiful Bluebell Girls of the famous Paris Lido Stepping down the mirrored stairs all the way from a burning heaven And as the legend goes on, the fairest of all is supposed to ask In a perfect French with a strong Montmartre accent “L’ai-je bien descendu ?” I leave it here to the […]
On my way back from my Saturday Night snapshot stint A team of young fit men asked for a group picture I was happy to oblige and while they stroke the pose Depressing the shutter release like I was priming a detonator This big truck appeared with a message The morality of this true story […]
The war of religions of our now defunct civilization About the sale of indulgences under the auspices of Clement VI So we hear that we can elude the long wait at a crowded Purgatory And with the appropriate tithe be channelled into the fast lane But the real sweetness belongs with the ephemeral earthly pleasures […]
Saturday night special posse The 10 p.m. cowboy goes home Bringing the chow home from Chinatown Next-door shopping is rife with adventure On hot stiletto-spurred Saturday nights in Soho For a few quid or more the mirror will tell it all Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Red-haired beauty in Lady Godiva’s replay There is so much to blame about our rulers of today White horses out of stock to express our naked dissent Only manure left as the matter for a dirty protest Young lady changing clothes on the street Victoria Station 6 a.m. Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The clash of civilizations seen from a pedestal Greek mythology meets the Zen art of archery Agincourt was about the loss of the middle finger Say it with red roses In war as in love all is fair… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Tiptoeing in a traffic jam Stranded on the Strand Sweet young beauty lost and found Princesses belong to palaces Others sleep in hotel kingsize beds Everything is a matter of perspective Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery