Pretty pictures

Quite a few this week, thanks in no small part to my having recently discovered the wonders of RSS feeds of Flickr’s tagged photostreams:

• A selection of stunning sunsets.
• One scary cat.
• Some images of the erotic gherkin. (I saw the Gherkin for the first time when I was in London a few weeks ago. It was from some way along the Thames, and it was an overcast day, but I thought it looked amazing - a striking, futuristic piece of work which was no more out of place than any dozen other buildings modern looking out over the river.)
• I couldn’t make up my mind which daily dose of imagery I liked best this week, so I picked two contrasting but equally striking images: yellow maple leaf and dark alley.
• I’d have quite liked to see a colour image of .roads by mi4. Not that there’s anything wrong with the monochrome version, but I’m curious.
• Ediblity by lorrainemd. Yum!
• Look, a smiling stingray. (But has anyone ever seen one frown?)
• If I’d been travelling on this Virgin train on the south west coast line the other day I think I’d have got off at the next station and waited for the weather to clear up before resuming my journey. Trains aren’t supposed to get that close to waves, dammit!
• A couple of shots from 8lettersuk’s trip Down Under: the Sydney Harbour Bridge as seen from inside the Opera House (I’ve never seen a view from inside the Opera House before), and a rather nice view of what appears to be a giant-sized New Zealand-themed Xmas tree decoration.