Week notes #6
We should have spent last week in France visiting family but, world still in lockdown and flights cancelled, we kept our time off from work and spent some dedicated time together at home as a famil...
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Glorious autumn at Simonside
Back in November, I had a chance to drive up to Simonside and had a fantastic day’s photography, capturing one of my favourite images of 2019 in the process.The colours in the woodland at Simonsid...
Location scouting: lone tree
Driving home from a tiring day scouting locations in the Otterburn range last July I spotted a lone oak(?) tree across some farmland, picked out against a wheat field and framed on three sides by g...
Week notes #5
My last week notes post went out just as the lockdown began in the UK. The world’s a rather grim place at the moment, so without going into that I thought I’d simply share a few photographs on a th...
Tate Modern ‘street’ photography
Is there a name for street-style photography done indoors?I’ve written before about my regular trips to Tate Modern when I worked just over the river in London, both as a great people-watching loca...
Newquay
Here’s a quick one from a trip to Newquay in the summer of 2018. We rented a cottage for the weekend to celebrate a friend’s birthday and I took this photograph on a hazy evening wander with the gr...
Week notes #4
A rather counter-intuitive benefit of having to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a small up-tick in photographic opportunities as we take the chances we have to get out for some...
Stickle Ghyll redux
In late 2018 I spent a week in the Lake District and managed a couple of days photography, including a workshop with Nigel Danson. I recently went back to an unprocessed image from the workshop day...
Di Meo’s ice cream and the Whitella
The beach at Whitley Bay is just a short walk from our house. Down at the edge of the beach is this ice cream hut run by Di Meo’s, who have a pizza restaurant and ice cream shop on the parade nearb...
Spotting better portrait prints with a vertical monitor
This is something of a niche tip, but for those who have multi-monitor setups and like printing portrait-oriented photographs at least some of the time, read on…A computer setup tip I picked up fro...