Strange picture of the Day

Strange picture of the Day

A Dalek asks for directions on the London Road today!

Armed Police

I photographed an armed police raid on Odd Down today.
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Picture copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Chocolate-Brown Labrador

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I photographed this eight-week-old chocolate-brown

Labrador in Saltford this afternoon.

Peppa Pig

It will soon be Lottie’s second birthday, and Peppa Pig is the favourite at the moment.
This is my design for the front of her birthday party invitation.

Load of Balls

I was photographing a modern City Centre flat
and the light fittings on the landing caught my eye.

Grade ll listed loo

This strangely shaped rectangular cast iron
Victorian urinal can be found in Sydney Gardens in Bath.
Now it stands next to a modern toilet block.

Zawose Family

I was working at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Box this week and spotted this van.
I wondered who the Zawose family were, and then met them performing at a school the following day.

Pictures Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Hubcaps

Spotted today through a broken cellar window in a smart area of Bath.
Where you would expect a collection of painting or antiques, not hubcaps!

Dog giving his man some exercise!

Dog giving his man some exercise!

SUPER HERO’S

I bumped into this crowd of SUPER HERO’S
in York Street Today!

Kings Troop

These pictures were taken some years ago at the Royal Bath and West Show.
A trooper from the Kings Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery is unseated during the musical ride.

Copyright Sam Farr

Postman Pat Village

Lottie and Tabitha with Postman Pat
and Jess his Cat at Longleat.
Picture David Mattock

Helen

It’s difficult to think our beautiful little Helen is 30 today; it only seems yesterday when she was born at St Martins Hospital.
This picture was taken when I put a mirror behind the camera, gave her the remote release to take her own picture.
She decided to play me at my own game and touch her nose with her tongue while going cross-eyed.
Fortunately she didn’t get stuck like this and has given us the joy of two lovely granddaughters.

Tony Robinson and Time Team

In September 2002 the Time Team crew from channel four visited Bath to make a programme about the Royal Crescent.
Here Tony Robinson chats to pupils from the local junior school on a site visit.
Picture Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Rain

It Rained a bit in Bath today,
still the gardens needed it!
Picture copyright Sam Farr

Big Thunder Mountain

In 1992 we went with a reader’s trip to Disneyland Paris; it was a photographer’s nightmare.
The object was to photograph our readers in the park, so I thought the best way was to give maps to the party and agree who to meet at particular rides at exact times.
The problem was that if people had been in a queue for 45 minutes for another ride they wouldn’t leave to meet me at the agreed ride.
But I ended up with enough pictures for a double page spread, and even persuaded Wendy who hates roller coasters to come on the Runaway Mine Train that goes around Big Thunder Mountain.

Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Terry and June

Terry and June in the
Bath Panto some years ago.

Picture Copyright Sam Farr

Green Street House

The owners of Green Street House Collette and Betsi were stars of a Channel Four fly on the wall documentary "Risking it All" in 2003.
You will notice the lens between them as I became the target of the TV crew.
But my moment of fame faded when I didn’t make it into the final cut!

Picture Copyright Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Cardiff Docks

This looks like a prop from a Science Fiction Filmset, it’s on the docks at Cardiff.
Actually it's a memorial to the merchant seamen who sailed from the ports of Cardiff, Penarth and Barry during the Second World War, never to return.

Trowbridge Busker

Trowbridge Busker

Mr Men

Do you think it's one of the Mr Men!

Big Ted takes a nap.

Big Ted takes a nap.
How a little sleep can change your life?
Picture Sam Farr / The Bath Chronicle

Cheeky Monkey

Terry Pratchett

An unpublished picture of author Terry Pratchett in the Observatory he was building in the grounds of his house.
As I took this in 2002, it’s a fair assumption he’s sold enough books to install his telescope by now!
Copyright Sam Farr

While working on Pennyquick Hill I spotted these walkers and thought what perfect example of the pleasures of walking in the English Countryside.

Hide-and-seek

David’s picture of Lottie playing hide-and-seek.

Little known corners of Bath, Ayr Street.

Little known corners of Bath,
Ayr Street.

Wimbledon

Last Thursday 28^th David had tickets
for court one at Wimbledon;
I think he picked the right day to go!

Pictures Copyright David Mattock

Have Wheels will shop

Two almost personalised number plates and
a good girlie sign spotted in the last few days

Unusual Sunglasses

Unusual Sunglasses

Tabitha

Tabitha plays up for the camera today!