Meanwood Nature

Meanwood Nature

Reading Time: 2 minutes I had to post these sillies, taken on the Grove Lane Pond the other day. I need to get out a bit more for short walks and pay some attention to the random things I see, like the nature on the pond – I loved 

Beeston Festival

Beeston Festival

Reading Time: 2 minutes Beeston Festival in Crossflatts Park – I do like that all these events have their own distinct character. Beeston is big, but suprisingly roomy – it does not feel crowded and busy and there really is something for everyone. The main band stage is relatively understated, with feelgood music of a generally rocky nature. The main area of stalls and food is immense, with easily over 100 different stalls, mostly of a very community nature – tombolas, tat, plants, books and so on.

Kirkstall Festival

Kirkstall Festival

Reading Time: 2 minutes Another of the big summer events in Leeds takes place in the grounds of Kirkstall Abbey – Kirkstall Festival has been running in Leeds for 37 years now, and attracts over 25,000 people.  It has grown steadily, and has a good formula, with a large 

Light Space Leeds Opening Party

Light Space Leeds Opening Party

Reading Time: 4 minutes So, I went to a little bit of a shindig last night. Felicity Hoy, with whom I did a bit of collaboration on some flyers a couple (or maybe more) years ago and who is doing great things in Sheffield has been involved with a couple 

Settle and Ribblehead

Settle and Ribblehead

Reading Time: 4 minutes One 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 minutes So 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 

Riding on a Legend

Riding on a Legend

Reading Time: 2 minutes I still have a little train freak, and I am sometimes worse. We’d been planning this as a suprise for a while. After initially saying that Loading Guage issues pevented them from getting the nation’s favourite locomotive to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, somehow 

Woods, Kids, Pigs Arses…

Woods, Kids, Pigs Arses…

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is one of those posts with no real reason, other than as a reminder to see fun and enjoyment and photgraphic opportunites in every circumstance. We decided the other day to take a walk down through woodhouse ridge, to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm on 

Misty Park

Misty Park

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’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.

Freightliners

Freightliners

Reading Time: 2 minutes I am not sure where this small obsession with Freightliners came from. I blame my son, and also they are very smartly liveried. If you like them we are lucky to have the maintanance depot in Leeds out on the Hallam Line to Wakefield Westgate 

Sheffield and Worksop

Sheffield and Worksop

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have needed to travel to Worksop recently, and of course took my camera. Always liking a bit of Brutalism, a chance to take some shots of Park Hill and the arears around the station. On the station I got a great shot of this