Kirkstall Abandonment

Kirkstall Abandonment

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have completed various photoshoots round Kirkstall, around the river and canal. It’s an interesting place, with a lot of industrial remnants. There is also this large space, semi-derelict with a rather random homeware store. For me this epitomises the idea of parafunctional spaces – …

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. …

A Meanwood Night

A Meanwood Night

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome moody pictures. Just a few little shots from a quick wak round the top of my street after dak It’s always good to remember the images on your doorstep that you have not taken yet.

More Waterfront Adventures

More Waterfront Adventures

Reading Time: 2 minutes…long term project to shoot the canal network in West Yorkshire. Some of this I manage to do with the toddler in tow, as these in Wakefield, where there is also a lovely play park outside the Hepworth Gallery.

I will be making these into a book some time. What is interesting is the differences in my editing style …

Through Moving Windows

Through Moving Windows

Reading Time: 3 minutesI spend a lot of time travelling on busses and trains. Looking out of the windows provides a unique view of the surroundings which is detached and dispassionate, a different reality. You see places that you may walk through on different days, or that you …

365

365

Reading Time: 2 minutes…one image every day for an entire year. It is often seen as a kind of rite of passage for a photographer.

In the end I had to abandon this, not because of taking the images, but keeping up with regular editing and uploading proved hard…

Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Cold Winter Campus all lit up

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s getting towards the end of the year, and with my birthday and Christmas looming, the day job is done until January. I always like the feel of the Uiversity Campus in winter, the Christmas Tree, the Lights – I thought I’d just bring my …

Leeds at Night

Leeds at Night

Reading Time: 2 minutesJust a little photoset post really. It’s rare I end up with my camera in the City Centre at night, to be honest it’s rare I end up in the city centre at night, so it was nice to be able to get the Canon …

Olympus Trip 35 and Tri-X 400

Olympus Trip 35 and Tri-X 400

Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother Random film and Camera combination – this is the Olympus Trip, loaded with Kodak Tri-X. This is quite a classic street photography set up, and so here’s some in that style, mostly in London.

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Thwaite Mills and Post Industrial Regeneration

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been deveoping quite an interest in photographing some of Leeds Industrial Heritage, and of course we have a fair set of museums which are quite good for entertaining small children. One of these, though a fair way out and only open occasionally is Thwaite …

Castleford to Knottingley

Castleford to Knottingley

Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing last September’s walk out to Woodlesford I decided on a different leg of the Aire and Calder for another walk, from Castleford, out to Knottingley. So this time I started at the station, with a brief detour to test the low light capabilities of …

Holbeck Again, Canals and Mills

Holbeck Again, Canals and Mills

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been back to Holbeck again after my first photo exploration, looking for a few old buildings such as the mill here on Low Hall Place that I have explored on google maps. Hunslet is very much a place of change at the moment. While …