Slack, Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, Midgeholes…

Slack, Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags, Midgeholes…

Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week I decided to attempt a walk I have been wanting to do for some years, and visit Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags up along Hebden Water. Today was a clear example of the thing it is always worth remembering – when going out …

91%

91%

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is not some political statement about voting intentions of the number of fascist scum prevelent in the news, much as at the moment it is a trial not to rant. It’s the coverage of the recent partial eclipse in Leeds, and likely the most …

Unity Day 2026

Unity Day 2026

Reading Time: 4 minutesJust a quick little round up from this year’s Unity Day. After growing quite large and raucous again, Unity day has had a bit of a reset in the last couple of years, asiming to focus again on a more stall and market oriented event. …

Kirkstall Festival

Kirkstall Festival

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce again we have had a nice sunny day for the annual Kirkstall Festival, and once again I have to entirely admit that we spent much of the day in the Beer Tent. I’ve noticed something over the last few years and that is that …

Whitby (Retro Style)

Whitby (Retro Style)

Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s funny, in a way, how artistically and photographically I’ve come in a bit of a circle with the new Fuji Camera. I embraced my DSLR in a massive way about 20 years ago now, taking in all the technical abilities of the digital format. …

TT Artisan 7.5mm f/2.0 – Fisheye Fun

TT Artisan 7.5mm f/2.0 – Fisheye Fun

Reading Time: 7 minutesI’ve always wanted a full frame fisheye lens, from when I was shooting like crazy with my DLSRs – I had an adapter than (not very effectively) turned the image into a circular (albeit cropped) fish eye, but this has never quite been my thing. …

Fuji XT-30iii Meanwood Walk

Fuji XT-30iii Meanwood Walk

Reading Time: 5 minutesI took the new camera out of a proper walk, to get a better understanding of what it can do – there’s so much to learn! While I am reasonably expert at Digital Photography any new device, and one that is different from what I …

Old Lenses Pt 1 – Helios 44/2

Old Lenses Pt 1 – Helios 44/2

Reading Time: 4 minutesI think that buying a new camera has reawakened a little bit of photography excitement in me again, as I’ve been feeling quite creative in that area the last few days. For no other reason than it suddenly came to me, I decided to buy …

New Camera!

New Camera!

Reading Time: 7 minutesLooking through this site, and indeed looking myself through my hard drives, it’s noticable how much less photopgraphy I have done over the last few years. For various reasons I have been walking less, I’ve also been painting more, and as I realised in Newcastle …

Newcastle Art Galleries

Newcastle Art Galleries

Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a Northern industrial town with a history of grime and depravation, Newcastle does have rather a fair share of art galleries. After the slight dissapointment of much of the town centre we ended up in the Laing Gallery which was rather an unexpectedly good …

Newcastle, Rivers, Bridges and Sketches

Newcastle, Rivers, Bridges and Sketches

Reading Time: 8 minutesWe decided on a random trip to Newcastle for this spring’s random couple of days away, for no real reason other than having never been there. I have to say I was not sure what to make of Newcastle, and I’m still not – I …

Atkinson Grimshaw, Tetley, Nocturnes and Springtime

Atkinson Grimshaw, Tetley, Nocturnes and Springtime

Reading Time: 6 minutesLeeds Art Gallery has been hosting an exhibition – ‘Don’t Let’s Ask for the Moon…’: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw which I have been meaning to get to for some time, and finally managed this Easter Thursday gone, a rare day off work with nothing else …