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Week notes #10: picking up the camera
Last week I mentioned finding a little spark of inspiration sitting in my garden and simply looking up at the sky. It turns out that was the spark I needed to get out with my camera for the f...
Medium format film at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
I haven’t shared any motorsport images for quite a while but as the Goodwood Festival of Speed took place last week, I thought I would share a couple of film scans from the 2017 festival.I lugged ...
Empty Greenwich Park in summer
In looking for an image to share that was neither monochrome nor coastal (two strong themes for me, especially recently) I came across this old image from Greenwich Park in London.Taken as a refer...
Photography
Week notes #9: missing my window
Nearly 2 years ago, I suggested I may have made an error in titling a series of posts ‘week notes’. That was #8, and today is #9.Rather than waste time coming up with a new title for (clearly very)...
Cullercoats Bay, looking back from the harbour wall
With an hour to spare one morning in February, I took the opportunity for a quick walk around Cullercoats, winding around the top of the bay then down and onto the harbour wall. The ti...
Whitburn Old Quarry
A short walk along the coast from Souter Lighthouse, the cliffs roll down to a small white-pebbled beach: Whitburn Old Quarry.My dad lived nearby for a couple of years and we used to walk the dog ...
Waking up...
Where have the past 4 months gone? In 2020 I took over 19,000 photographs; in 2021 it dipped a little to just under 15,000. As we near the halfway point of 2022, I’m at the 3,800 mark and on track ...
Wet and windy Whitley Bay
Photography has really taken a back seat for me over the last 6 months, simply through being too busy with other things. In the interests of getting this journal going again, here’s a quick photo f...
Storm light at Cullercoats
A little while back I shared a photograph looking back at Cullercoats Bay after a rainstorm had passed. The fast-changing, high-contrast light that followed the rain was so fun to photograph and I...