Unity Day 2017
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDidn’t really manage many pictures at this year’s Unity Day, but here they are anyway for some semblance of completeness.
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Beeston Festival
Reading Time: 2 minutesBeeston 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother 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 …
Festival on the Ridge
Reading Time: 2 minutesLeeds has so many little pockets of community action and events, for those in the know… One of these is the annual Woodhouse Ridge Festival, taking place early July each year. This is a wonderful example of grassroots community in action. Woodhouse Ridge is an area of …
Monster Magnet
Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes great things come in small packages. I’ve seen Monster Magnet a couple of times before in bigger venues, but they have recently played the Brudenell Social Club. How on earth they made the finances of a small club tour like this work, I neither …
Light Space Leeds Opening Party
Reading Time: 4 minutesSo, 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
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne 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
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo 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
Reading Time: 2 minutesI 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…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis 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 …
Paula’s Birthday
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo this is a studio re-recording of my liveset that I made for Paula’s Birthday in Santiagos. After many many years of not playing live I have been revamping to create a more portable laptop based set. This was put together pretty quickly. But my planning and getting a series of stems for a number of my tunes has paid off.
Misty Park
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’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.