My 2024 photos of the year
This year’s instalment of my favourite photos from the last twelve months. I wrote a longer post this time last year reflecting on the how and why of phone photography.
1. Bond Street Tube Station, January. I went to London at the very beginning of the year to sort out a US visa, and caught this striking image looking up the Elizabeth Line escalators at Bond Street - which are, I suspect, rarely this deserted.
2. Felmersham (Bedfordshire), January. The Great Ouse regularly floods here. (I did not have to get my feet wet to take this picture.)
3. Washington DC, January. I went to the east coast of the US for a few days for work. We arrived in Washington early evening and I went for a walk a few blocks south from our hotel to look at the White House, getting absolutely soaked in the process.
4. Washington DC, January. The following day the weather was nicer, and we walked past the Capitol building between meetings.
5. Russell Square, London, January. I keep a look out for postboxes with interesting stories. This one was being particularly moody that evening. (Nearly halfway through the list and we’re still in January: it was a good January.)
6. Near Theddingworth, Leicestershire, March. One of those ‘oh that will make a good picture’ moments, while on a walk in south Leicestershire. I used a ‘Silvertone’ filter but the landscape itself sorted out the composition.
7. King Power Stadium, Leicester, May. ‘Straight back up, straight back up, Leicester City…’
8. North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, July. Vulfpeck are on the stage, and my son is right at the front.
9. Scarborough, August. We spent a few days on the Yorkshire coast at the beginning of August. On our first evening there I walked to the south harbour and discovered some magical evening light which, along with the calm stillness, turned everything it touched to photographic gold.
10. Scarborough, August. Another from a few minutes later. I like the way the sky is slightly disorientatinglyly at the bottom of the picture, and the buoys seeming to float in mid-air.
11. The Thames, London, September. Looking east from London Bridge (you can just see Tower Bridge to the right), and quite heavily filtered.
12. Church Langton, Leicestershire, October. England got very excited by a rare chance to see the Northern Lights in mid-October and I spent an evening driving round trying to find them. They were barely visible with the naked eye, but my phone found them with no difficulty.
Look out for the next instalment in December 2025.