Art for Art’s sake !!
You go out for a walk in the country only to find some bugger’s gone and done an Arts Intervention ! Tagged: Art, British Photography, colour photography, Derbyshire, England, Englishness,...
View ArticleRememberence Sunday
The wife needed a repeat prescription this week so she went for her regular checkup at the Doctors. The Pharmacies on behalf of the NHS are tasked with reducing the drugs bill. So they instructed the...
View ArticleCall me sometime
Tagged: Black and White photography, British Photography, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, Englishness, environmental portraiture, People, Photography
View ArticleSpeakers Corner
Back in the early days of my photography my neg developing technique was less than perfect. Still living at home with the parents I had to load the film into the tank under the bedsheets. The darkroom...
View Articlesomething subliminal ?
I took this: and with the very next frame I took this: Tagged: British Photography, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, Englishness, Humour, People, Photography, Street Photography
View ArticleThe Scream
one of my favourite images from 2012 above taken in Sheffield it reminds me of Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream below; Tagged: British Photography, Chesterfield, colour photography,...
View ArticleEnglish landscape 2
Tagged: British Photography, Chesterfield, colour photography, Derbyshire, England, Englishness, Landscape Photography, snow photography, winter
View ArticleEnglish landscape 3
Tagged: Art, British Photography, colour photography, Derbyshire, Landscape Photography
View ArticleFact or Fiction
I had a fun day yesterday ( 1st Feb). First off after my porridge, toast and black coffee was walking the dog down to the vets for his monthly flea treatment. He doesn’t like it, it upsets his system...
View ArticleAshbourne Shrove Tuesday
Not the Mardi Gras or the Rio Carnival but the annual Shrove Tuesday football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England. I’m not going to give you a potted history of the event or the rules, sufficeth...
View ArticleDelete that image now !
23 August 2012 The British Red Cross and street photography The day started calmly enough, a leisurely get up, a long walk with Harry the dog and an email from an old friend; ‘ do I do wedding...
View ArticleDifficult Shape, Passive Rhythm
I’ve been a bit busy of late. So much so that I’ve not been able to give as much time to my blog as I would have liked. These things happen from time to time and something has to give way to more...
View ArticleThe inevitable winter
Autumn battles it out with winter and winter wins. It won’t always be this way but for now the mild Autumn we’ve had so far gives way and we are forced to consider the onset of the cold, the wet and...
View ArticleThe white stuff
Tagged: Art, Black and White photography, British Photography, Derbyshire, England, Englishness, Landscape Photography, Monochrome, Opinion, Opinion, Peak District, People, Photography, snow, The...
View Articlerun rabbit run !
Swaledale in North Yorkshire is a beautiful part of the country at any time of year, particularly the upper part when you get past the village of Reeth. We’ve been going every year around September...
View ArticleA Chesterfield Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve and the mates and I are heading off home ( on foot ) after a joyous night in the Royal Oak – Shambles, in the centre of town. We’ve all had a few beers ( Stones on hand pump ), sufficient...
View ArticlePhotography – The thing itself !
When the study of photography becomes serious, an itch that continually needs to be scratched, the inevitable questions sooner or later present themsleves. What is it, this medium ? What is its...
View ArticleYou are what you say you are !
I think it’s fair to say my brother is a little eccentric. He’s three years older than me and has always been a little, shall we say ‘ left field’. Purely in a nice way you understand. I don’t think...
View ArticleSeafront stroll
There’s not really much to say about this image. I can only think that this man needed to rest his left leg while taking a leisurely stroll along the sea front in Scarborough. Tagged: Black and White...
View ArticleMaking a splash !
I guess some people never forget that simple childlike pleasure of throwing pebbles back into the sea. Rollup your trousers above your knees, brace yourself against the cold of the North Sea and wade...
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