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Looking upstream towards Meadowbank from the Pippbrook Mill in Dorking this morning.

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Reading Dave Winner's Brilliant Orange. He interviews Dutch photographer Hans van der Meer who complains of the modern football photographers obsession with taking close-up pictures of the players, and in doing so fail to communicate the game's subtleties.

A wide-angle photo containing the players, the crowd, the pitch, the officials, taken at the right moment can tell a much better story about a game than a telephoto lens shot of an inconsequential tackle.

Inspired by these comments, here's photo taken at Dorking FC's ground this weekend (they lost 2-1 to Banstead Athletic).


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Looking North on to some allotments from the edge of the Glory Woods in Dorking.

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It's been like changing engines in an airplane midair without any of the passengers noticing.

Steve Mitgang, Senior VP, Yahoo. Quoted in Wired, January 16 2007.

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- 100ml olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 tins of plum/cherry tomatoes
- 750ml veg stock
- 200g spinach
- pepper
- 100ml single cream
- big handful of parsley
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- add oil, add onion, and garlic until onion softens
- add both cans of tomatoes, reduce for 15 mins
- add veg stock, spinach and pepper. cook for 15 mins.
- puree, add parsley, add cream.

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- 30g butter + a bit of olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 6 garlic cloves
- 200g bacon
- 700g mushrooms (eg, chestnut, closed-cup)
- 1 litres veg stock
- pepper
- 100ml single cream
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- melt butter, add onion, garlic, until onion softens
- add bacon. fry for 3 or 4 mins.
- add veg stock and mushrooms, pepper. cook for 20 mins.
- puree, add cream.

This will probably taste better with a glass of white wine in, but I've drunk all of my stock, also parsley or chervil might be good.

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- 25g butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 500g cauliflower
- 1 litres veg stock
- 500g chickpeas
- pepper
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 100ml single cream
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- melt butter, add onion, chilli, garlic, cumin seeds until onion softens
- add chickpeas. cook for 5 mins
- add veg stock, cauliflower, lemon juice and pepper
- puree, add cream, then strain.

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