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We tied a disposable camera to a tree again, look:

This time the tree was one of the several trees that can be found hanging out on Horsell Common, by the sandpits. You know the place.

Those less fortunate souls who have never taken in the leafy, sandpitty, and a little bit lakey/pondy vistas of the place locals call “H-Comm”* are missing out. Ignore how that sounds like a really terrible plug from the Woking tourist board and get yourselves down there as soon as you possibly can. Afterwards, take a stroll into Woking town centre and marvel at the real live Martian that was excavated from the very sandpits pictured in the following pictures**. I guarantee you’ll “ooh” and “aah” more than the punters at the annual Woking fireworks night***.

Thanks to everyone who overcame the fear of taking pictures on a camera that was tied to a tree and wrapped in plastic like some sort of creepy photographic equivalent of Laura Palmer.

*Nobody calls it this.

**This isn’t an accurate account of how the Martian got there.

***This won’t happen. I hear it’s actually impossible to “ooh” and “aah” harder than the punters at the annual Woking fireworks night.

Ruth is a loyal friend of Shot Simple’s. Here’s her blurb describing the pictures that she took just for us in New York, New York:

“Here’s a literal snapshot of my first ever visit to New York – there’s not much to say by way of explanation. I tried to avoid ‘tourist’ shots but then got a bit carried away at the Ground Zero memorial. Also, I couldn’t resist one of the Empire State – ever present and looming, until you’re right next to it – when it suddenly becomes invisible.

My favourite picture is the one of the Neenah Foundry manhole cover. I wonder if they make ambulances too.

Aren’t American cars the best/worst? I think those ‘wood panelled’ station wagons are fab.”