Hockney and Saltaire

Hockney and Saltaire

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently we have had a bit of a resurgence in playing the recorder in these parts, having received a Treble for Christmas. For a bit of a day out we decided to take a trip over to Saltaire – not far up the road (or 

Winter Snow and Lights

Winter Snow and Lights

Reading Time: 2 minutesSo on the eve of the new year, we have been treated with a little bit of proper winter. Doubtless we’ll end up having a pretty shit spring and I will eat those words, but actually having some snow and the chance to have a 

Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House

Reading Time: 2 minutesA quick visit to Chatsworth House, for family business, I grabed the chance for a few quick photos of the gardens, still looking quite green for this late in the year. And a few in the greenhouse. This year has been characterised a little by 

The Film with No Name (and R.I.P MTL-5)…

The Film with No Name (and R.I.P MTL-5)…

Reading Time: 2 minutesI bought this in a mixed bundle of rare and respooled films from Nik and Trick in Folkstone. I misremember exactly what their specifications for it were, but what I got from it has a nice atmospheric tone and character. But I am not sure 

Settle and Ribblehead

Settle and Ribblehead

Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the main inspirations for my photography is mans interaction with the environment – landscapes, but landscapes showing the fight between permanence and ephemerality of man’s impact on the earth.  I love the way in which structures both scar the landscape, yet also decay, 

Flying Scotsman and Walking the Worth Valley

Flying Scotsman and Walking the Worth Valley

Reading Time: 3 minutesSo after taking the train loving children to see Flying Scotsman earlier in the week we have been back to the Worth Valley to have a walk along the trand and (for me) to try and get some decent Scotsman photos. The route took us 

Misty Park

Misty Park

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s been incredible misty the other day, and we went for a wintery walk in the park. I took these images, but thought I’d do something a bit different with them, and procesed them in Adobe Camera Raw into this slightly sepia toned high contrast.

Hyde Park Rooftop Panorama

Hyde Park Rooftop Panorama

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick on. I took this huge panorama of the rooftops of Hyde Park – kind of an extension from my previous rooftop images, but from above and on a larger scale.

Manchester

Manchester

Reading Time: 2 minutesI took these shots on a quick trip to Manchster with work to speak at a conference. Manchester is somewhere I would like to explore in more detail. I like the Juxtaposition of the modern and the old Industrial, something that Leeds has lost, at 

Cable Cars and Eurostars

Cable Cars and Eurostars

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a while, doubtless because Gordon does in one of the Thomas stories, my son has been asking to go to London. Of course the price of travel nowadays kind of precludes this as a random trip but needing to go down to Cambridge for 

Wakefield to Dewsbury

Wakefield to Dewsbury

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy aim on this walk was to join the canal at the end of Thornes Lane Wharfe, and so complete the Wakefield end of the Calder Hebble Navigation, but this appearded to have been cut off, I guess due to damage to the tow path. 

Snow!

Snow!

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the floods of a couple of weeks ago we now have some fairly impressive snow, for Leeds at least. These are round meanwood mill pond. I’ve also taken the opportunity for a bit more arty shutter dragging which has worked very well in these