Regents Canal, Camden, 20th July 2011

A rare gift and a rarer grey, although the canals are proving productive recently. Although this is less than a mile from my flat, and was taken by one I see as much as realistically possible, I wasn't there to take it myself. I'm delighted by the consideration, as ever.

Acre Lane, 6th December 2008

But the day wasn't over - I left town dizzy with excess and glad to be away from the teeming hordes and back in the relative quiet of home, when I spotted this pale ghost of a balloon trapped in the branches of a tree near my house.

This sighting did at least provide an element of realism to the day, a more familiar feel after the madness detailed below. I don't have many night shots, so this is a rarity in its own right, which makes it all the more pleasing. Back to reality, then. Eight in one day and several more that eluded me... but who knows how long until the next one?

Knivet Road, 25th April 2006

Almost too easy - this was in our front garden. Plainly, we didn't care for our front garden much (or the back one, to be honest: it required a machete and native guide to reach the back wall). It was a pleasant surprise to arrive home and find this, not least because it's a gunmetal balloon. Who has gunmetal balloons?! PlaneEasy, apparently. I approve, whoever they are.