The other side of Kent...

"Dungeness is a state of mind" - says our great leader Paddy Hamilton. 

                         The same must surely apply to Margate........

David, from Italy.

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside.

"Well you're not gettin' another one"

One pound and seventy new pence.

There'll always be an England.

Crazed

Gurdev from the Punjab.

Off-duty Dreamland worker.

Keep them out.....

Architects Russell Diplock Associates - 1963

Westbrook Bay, Margate's other, nicer beach - the locals keep this to themselves.

Gimme shelter.

Telegraph pole.

Dream land.

C L O S E D

Floating in Đà Nẵng (or Dungeness)

Some visual translations of Francisco Lopez, Live at @Cafeoto @BBCRadio3 - @postpran @ybreaky pic.twitter.com/EAezHnkQUD
— ERKEMBODE (@erk_embode) March 20, 2015

Solar

Last Friday (20th of March), ought really to have been renamed "Sun day" as the solar eclipse took centre stage and we were all warned against taking 'Selfies' with the aforementioned ball of gas (technology really does appear to be making us more stupid!). 
There was however a beautiful sunset over East Kent three days earlier which provided ample opportunity to take corny pastoral sunset images like this one.

Erkembode: Butterfly Vision series

On Discovering a Butterfly

 I found it and I named it, being versed
 in taxonomic Latin; thus became
 godfather to an insect and its first
 describer -- and I want no other fame.

 Wide open on its pin (though fast asleep),
 and safe from creeping relatives and rust,
 in the secluded stronghold where we keep
 type specimens it will transcend its dust.

 Dark pictures, thrones, the stones that pilgrims kiss,
 poems that take a thousand years to die
 but ape the immortality of this
 red label on a little butterfly.

-- Vladimir Nabokov


photography by Erkembode (David Kelly-Mancaux)
@erk_embode