Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone
This is technically a re-post, but since I relaunched this blog to focus more on photography—and the older post is currently not rendering the photo after changes to the code here—I thought it woul...
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The mouth of the Tyne
North Shields has fantastic fish and chips, along with this lovely view of the Tyne and Tynemouth.
Venice
A few years ago, Liz and I took a long weekend to Venice in November. We lucked out massively with the weather: there'd been flooding the week before and the biggest flood in decades the day after ...
1923 Delage V12 steering wheel
Although I haven't managed to make it down the past couple of years, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is one of my favourite events to attend: a massive range of sports and racing cars from the very ...
Otterburn
I love Northumberland. From the coast to the national park, the landscapes are gorgeous and varied, and a great subject for photography. I'm no doubt a little biased by growing up there, but after...
Howick Hall
Howick Hall: birthplace of Earl Grey tea (and purveyor of a very nice Welsh rarebit in the tea room!).I've visited Howick Hall a couple of times, this last time a couple of years ago on a trip nort...
Selling the Mamiya
After writing my article about the Bronica S2 and Mamiya 645 AFD and starting to write a much larger article (still to come) about my camera history, it's got me thinking through the conclusions I ...
Twilight at Cullercoats Bay
Time for a more recently-taken photograph; this one from October last year and Cullercoats again.My mother's new house in Cullercoats is so close to the seafront that it provides endless weather- a...
Snowy Greenwich Park
As the temperatures have finally dropped to actual winter levels here in London and I finally saw some snow on our trip to Nottingham at the weekend, I thought I'd post this photo I took in Greenwi...
Kielder Water
I took this photo way back in 2008 on my Canon 40D. My brother, Christian, and I drove over to Kielder late one afternoon to see a bit of scenery and take some photos. We got a lovely sunset and th...