La Maison de la Forêt
After writing about my photo book purchases this year, the catalogue for Charlie Waite’s Hidden Works exhibition just arrived and a photo inside reminded me of this image from La Maison de la Forê...
Journal
2020: a year of photo books
I’ve bought a lot of photo books this year. Partly it’s my increasing interest in owning photography in print, whether as single prints or collections as books; partly it’s that a large number of p...
North Shields Fish Quay
A recent morning stroll around the fish quay at North Shields yielded this image of moored fishing boats, and the first image that I’ve personally shot that I feel suits Fujifilm’s new Classic Neg ...
Autumn at Knole
Here’s a scene I have wanted to share for a long time but have never been able to decide which of two versions is best. What I think that really tells me is that neither is quite right, but it’s ti...
Dartford Crossing from above
Browsing through my backlog of photos to publish this evening, I came across this image taken while coming in to land at City Airport in London a few years ago.I was on my way home from a visit to ...
Week notes #8
Maybe calling this thing ‘week notes’ was a bad idea…OK, so four months between week–notes articles is far from ideal. In my (feeble) defence, I have actually averaged just over an article per week...
St. Mary’s Island low tide
Back on the local coastal theme, here’s an image from St. Mary’s Island during a low tide last week. I need to let it settle, but at the moment I think it’s one of my favourite images this year and...
Pacific nights on the Shoreline Highway
For a couple of years I travelled quite regularly to San Francisco for work, and quite quickly realised I could build in mini road trips at the weekends as it was far, far cheaper to fly home on a ...
Mediterranean tones
Here’s a bit of a change from recent programming: a photograph from outside the UK, taken 5 years ago in Cinque Terre on our honeymoon. After getting married in the April, we delayed o...
Old growth at Plessey Woods
A recent discovery on my morning outings with the kids has been Plessey Woods: a country park with some beautiful old growth woodland and loads of easy trails to follow.Last weekend we went as a wh...