Moon over Cullercoats Harbour
A few weeks ago I was in Cullercoats and noticed the moon looking particularly large, hanging over the bay.I happened to have my Fuji X-Pro3 with the 23mm F2 ‘Fujicron’ lens with me in the car, so...
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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...
Triple fret
Three days of sea fog and an awful pun
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...
Rainy Rendezvous Cafe
As the weather here turns to rain again, I thought I would share a couple of images from a rainy-day walk to the sea front at the end of June this year.The Rendezvous cafe in Whitley Bay is a prop...
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...
A dusting of snow at the coast
A few snapshots from a 10-minute dash with the camera one morning