During the first Covid 19 lockdown, when it was not possible to get out to take many new photographs I trawled through my back catalogue to see what photographs I have taken on that day in earlier years. Now that we have entered a third lockdown I have begun to trawl through my archive onceContinue reading “On this day 11th January”
Tag Archives: Places
Landscape
Why do I take landscape photographs, and why these particular photographs? What caught my eye that day and why do I want to share them with you?
Cycling
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Fading lines
To commemorate the lifting of the old tranway through Weymouth town centre I have produced a short video of the photographs I took walking the line back in 2017.
Ashwell Church
Today I was cycling in the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire borders, and visited the church in Ashwell. Services are taking place again now and it was good to hear music drifting across the churchyard as I wandered around. As usual I was looking for the quiet corners and I found it with this upturned wheelbarrow on a compostContinue reading “Ashwell Church”
Chesil Beach
Chesil Beach in Dorset is one of my favourite places to photograph. I especially love the colours of some of the pebbles, as shown in these photographs.
A praying angel and a tilting shed
Cycling through the Hertfordshire countryside on my ongoing project to uncover the corners of country churchyards, and I came upon this in Codicote. I loved the juxtaposition of the praying angel and the leaning shed. Curiously, the angel was all on their own, away from the rest of the gravestones.
The photographic impulse
The photographic impulse. I have been taking photographs for a long time. What drives me on? A meander through my mind to try and find the answer.
The corners of a churchyard
On my cycle rides around the countryside I end up exploring many churches. Some of them are grand statement buildings with their towers rising above the neighbouring houses and trees asserting their authority on the land and people around them. Others are much smaller and self-effacing, nestling amongst the trees and tucked away from view.Continue reading “The corners of a churchyard”
The edges of Dorset
The road narrows, grass grows down the middle and the edges begin to crumble. Potholed and patched, the tarmac gives way to loose rubble and turns into a dirt track. Gradually it spills out into a wide expanse, before fading away into scrub land. The scrub itself clings on until the cliff edge and thereContinue reading “The edges of Dorset”