Triple fret
Three days of sea fog and an awful pun
Tagged ‘whitley bay’
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...
A dusting of snow at the coast
A few snapshots from a 10-minute dash with the camera one morning
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...
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...
Winter sunrise at St. Mary’s Island
Arriving at St. Mary’s Island one morning in February, I was just in time to catch the wonderful orange glow of a winter sunrise on the partially snow-covered landscape.As I wrote at the time, it ...
St. Mary’s sunrise
With a day off last week, I dragged myself up and out into the bitter cold to go for a morning’s photography in my surrounding area. A splitting headache and neck pain sent me home ...
St. Mary’s Island panorama
Being so close by, I photograph St. Mary’s Island quite often—usually on quick trips with my kids—but changing tides and weather always offer up something a little different.Another black and white...
The home of the ‘Whitella’, and the Zeiss 45mm F2 Contax G-mount
I recently had to get my car checked out for a coolant issue so dropped it at a garage near the beach and went for a walk in the waning light to try out a couple of new (old) Zeiss Contax len...
My 2020 top 4
Looking back at last year and picking my 4 favourite images