Autumn in the Highlands
I had a few plans lined up for my week in Scotland, hoping to take advantage of the autumn colours by going up in mid-October rather than the usual November. The weather however had other plans,...
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Year: 2018
Denbigh Asylum
Nine years ago this weekend I ventured in to the former North Wales Hospital, the first of what would be four visits in the intervening decade. I'd always been curious about places like this and...
Read MoreStoke Heritage
The great thing about the Heritage Open Days is that you can sometimes get to see the places... that you can't otherwise easily sneak into for a look round yourself. And Chatterley Whitfield...
Read MoreBack in Whitby
I'm conscious of re-shooting a scene when I don't feel it can be improved upon, and I don't think I've even attempted this one since I shot it after dusk five years ago. On this occasion though...
Read MoreBridging the Tees
There's a saying in life, that if you don't know where you're going you'll end up somewhere else. That's never resonated more than when I drove in to Redcar this week. I hadn't really planned on...
Read MoreCornwall round-up
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space... And yet, across the gulf of space, minds...
Read MoreCornish Tin - Part 4
Well this thread keeps on giving doesn't it? I do have a fascination with days gone by and the Cornish tin mines appear at first glance to be long abandoned - more an integral part of the...
Read MoreCornish Tin - Part 3
I left you at Botallack Mine at the end of the last post, with two very different shots of the Crown engine houses. If you haven't seen it you can read it here. This time we move further along...
Read MoreCornish Tin - Parts 1 and 2
Some things don't turn out the way you plan them. If I didn't know that already, I was about to find out. It was a beautifully sunny evening as I set off down the A374 towards the end of my...
Read MoreMorecambe Revisited
Five years ago I wrote a piece advocating the joys of Morecambe, the fast-fading and archetypal seaside town they forgot to close down, to paraphrase former Smiths frontman and all-round...
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