...a plethora of creative nonsense...
All posts on the subject of my photographic practice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs 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 …
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes we forget that there are many beautiful things to see (and shoot) right on our own doorsteps. I walk round meanwood quite a lot, but sometime neglect to spend a moment capturing the beauty of the place. Here’s just a few autumnal pictures
Reading Time: 4 minutesFurther to the eventual aim of walking all the Yorkshire Canals, we set of on another canal walk, this time with the Aim of Dewsbury to (at least) Mirfield. As I have said before, though there are some reasonably interesting Industrial buildings, Dewsbury is not …
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVery 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 …
Reading Time: 3 minutesThat sounds slightly rude! One of my favourite cameras, the one I read about in some hipster rag and which set me off on all the Lomography nonsense is of course the Diana F+ I bought in Carnaby Street some years ago. I’ve taken a …
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in the glory days of film photography, there were all manner of cheap and cheerful fun cameras doing the rounds. One of the best of these has to have been waterproof cameras. Often you could pick these up as disposables but there were also …
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor all the fun of old and random cameras, it is great to play with a decent, high quality SLR from time to time. From my late aunt’s chattels I received, by gift of my father a good condition Canon T50 and a couple of …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have been going back a bit to get some more ‘blog style posts onto this site (something I originally aimed to do) – inspired in part by managing to edit a good selection of film scans which have been hanging about for ages, and …
The New Normal
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Buzzword is becoming apparent for how things have changed. What we can and cannot do (which seems to change each day). It’s hard to think creatively at times. There’s things we need to be grateful for all around though. Making Pizza. A strage randon …