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 

The New Normal

The New Normal

Reading Time: 2 minutes This 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 

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 

Meanwood in Autumn

Meanwood in Autumn

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes 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

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 

Making a Splash!

Making a Splash!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Back 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 

Scotch Chrome

Scotch Chrome

Reading Time: 4 minutes I 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 

Witchy Places

Witchy Places

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have visited Knaresborough quite a few times to walk, and shoot and entertain small children, but I had not visited it’s so called main attraction – Mother Shiptons Caves. As a bit of a summer treat we took the younger two out for the 

Skipton

Skipton

Reading Time: 2 minutes Skipton is another place that, although broadly on my doorstep, I have never actually explored. I have kept meaning to walk there as a part of my canal project, but this time we got the train. What struck me about the place is that it