Tag Archives: Denys Wilkinson Building

Just over a year later…

Joseph/ February 4, 2012/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

I can hardly believe that a whole year has passed since I created this photography blog. Well here we are, 89 posts and over 300 pictures later. (You can view my first ever blog post here.) I had little idea then how many thousands of people from all walks of life would visit this blog over the ensuing weeks & months, many taking the time to kindly write to me to share their thoughts about the pictures and to express their support. Well, let me take this opportunity to thank one

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The Home of Astrophysics in Oxford.

Joseph/ February 20, 2011/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

This is the Denys Wilkinson Building – the place from where I work every day (unless I’m working from college). It goes without saying that architecturally it’s strikingly different than all the other old buildings in Oxford – and indeed, many are those who frown upon the very existence of this “hideous” building in an otherwise picturesque medieval university town. Case in point, when I was taking this picture, an old man who happened to be walking by stopped and remarked, “Surely you’re not taking a picture of THAT building! It’s

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