Park days
On a quick scroll through unprocessed photos from the past few years, I stumbled across this image from a nearby park that I actually had processed, just never marked as ‘done’ in Lightroom.The par...
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Folkestone Harbour
Happy memories from a disaster holiday.With our kids reaching an age where they could both appreciate it, we had booked our first family trip to Disneyland Paris. As we landed in Paris however, ou...
High key high tide
In late April I took a punt on a cheap Asahi Pentax Takumar 35mm F3.5 lens on ebay. The first real opportunity I got to try it was a calm, sunny morning in early May when I had it mounted on my Fu...
The storm passes the bay
This has been a personal favourite image for a while now, but I had never published it here.On a gloomy October morning in 2020 I went for a walk along the beach at Whitley Bay to photograph the d...
Fret day at Cullercoats
In mid-June, as the temperatures rose, we got a few good fret days at the coast and on one of them I managed a wander with the camera.As you drive through Cullercoats coming from the north, the co...
No. 1 Queen Street
With some work visitors in town this week, I was reminded of the really interesting building at 1 Queen Street.Having been out for dinner in Newcastle last night, we headed down towards the river ...
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...
Overgrown boardwalk
There’s a lovely little footbridge crossing a small stream as it opens onto our local beach, where the council has planted reed beds and constructed a small boardwalk to run alongside and und...
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 ...