Experiments in Scoring

Experiments in Scoring

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been working for a while with the amazing BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover from Spitfire Audio in some of my tracks lately. For those of you who have not encountered this, Spitfire are a company who produce deep sampled libraries aimed predominatly at film scoring 

Light Night 2021

Light Night 2021

Reading Time: 2 minutes After a missing year due to Covid19 it was exciting to get out to light night. I took my 1000D and got a few shots. However I fairly soon went back to my phone as it was easier and actually compared to the over a 

Carlisle

Carlisle

Reading Time: 3 minutes After visting in Carlisle we got a little bit of time on Sunday afternoon to have a wander around – something I’ve never had the chance to do on the previous occasions I have been. Much of the centre of Carlisile is dominated by the 

York

York

Reading Time: 3 minutes In an effort to get out and about a little more after successive lockdowns we took a trip over to york for the day. Similar to Bradford, we made the mistake of not really thinking about bank holidays and the fact that still many things 

Bradford

Bradford

Reading Time: 2 minutes We went to Bradford to visit the Media Museum for a bit of a day out of Leeds. After a bit of a revival, Bradford seems to be on a down again – the waning high street and impact of Covid seems to have hit. 

The Ultimate Deep Pan Pizza

The Ultimate Deep Pan Pizza

Reading Time: 4 minutes So after my decision to impart even more of my knowledge of the world on this site, rather than just my boring photos and must, I am going to start with this epic feast. I am not sure why, when my oven is fucked and 

Northern Kin

Northern Kin

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve been a bit slack with the editing recently, and these are long overdue – in these lockdown weeks I have managed to get a few more things done! Last Summer the pleasure of attending this lovely little festival in Stanhope as guests of Driven 

Howarth Winter

Howarth Winter

Reading Time: 3 minutes As those who have viewed my photography at length may well know, I’ve spent quite a lot of time in Howarth, mostly because of it’s location on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Sometimes this has been with the smaller and younger generation, others we 

Carnival 2019

Carnival 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutes Once again, we have been to the annual Leeds West Indian Carnival. I wax lyrical about this each year, so I am njot really going to rattle on and just leave this set of images to enjoy.

There are some spoonbills here, if you look closely…

There are some spoonbills here, if you look closely…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Very excitingly, it appears that some spoonbills have returned to nest at Fairburn Ings, so we went for a walk to try and see them. Sadly the promised viewing area close by the main visitor centre had not materialised, but a kind gentleman allowed us 

Terminus

Terminus

Reading Time: 3 minutes Terminus (n). The end, an etremity, and a Roman god of boundaries. What is this place of which we speak… Terminus has been around for a few months now. It had been whispered about for some time, that The Meanwood Brewery (which was previously in 

Halifax

Halifax

Reading Time: 4 minutes Rather randomly, one of the children, when asked where they might like to go for a day out was adamant that we should go to Halifax. I’ve nothing against Halifax, I quite like it as it has some very interesting buildings, but it seemed an