New year, new (photographic) beginnings
The entire calendar year of 2024 passed by without a single post added to this blog, so this is a short one to attempt a reset for 2025.Last year was not a good one for me photography-wise. I took...
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Triple fret
Three days of sea fog and an awful pun
Inspiration through constraints
Breaking out of a creative lull by making things harder?
The Watch House, Rocky Island, Seaton Sluice
An 1880 volunteer lifeboat watch house, now run as a museum.The weather here today has been constant mizzle, later turning into full-on rain, but the general trend has been towards the warmer clim...
Watching the tide, Cullercoats
There’s a famous quote in computer science from Phil Karlton: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” The naming part, I find, transfers ju...
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...
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...
Druridge fret
At the end of May and start of June this year, a persistent sea fret (or haar—coastal fog) arrived and sat on the Northumberland coast for a few days. We took a trip up the coast to Bamburgh Castl...
Pastel clouds
A year ago I wrote about a small photographic theme that had cropped up for me during lockdown, of photographing the changing light and cloud conditions out of my home office window. Since then, I...
Prior’s Haven
As the wind and rain whip outside my window, here is an image from a much calmer day in August last year.I was still spending lockdown mornings looking after the kids and with a hot summer, we spe...