Sunsets and Starlings
A couple of years ago I saw a starling murmuration at the end of a cold day spent in Brighton photographing the ruinous West Pier. The sun had set by the time I wandered down to the surviving...
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Category: Landscapes
Loch Awe & Glencoe
Five years ago I stayed in a cottage on the shores of Loch Awe and spent a week largely killing time waiting for better weather and better light. Not so this year, with the varied autumnal...
Read MoreCardiff, Bristol and the South Wales Coalfield
It's been a good few years since I was last in Cardiff - about 15 actually if you exclude a rainy November night in 2017 and even then I was only there for a gig. The same reason for this trip...
Read MoreRatcliffe Power Station
Given the amount of times I've photographed cooling towers and power stations it's remarkable that I've never managed to capture one in steam before now. It used to be such a common sight...
Read MoreThe Secret Water Mill
Save for a day out at the start of May that threw up a surprise capping of snow on the mountains, I've not been to the Lake District for a while. Well, there's been a pandemic that put paid to...
Read MoreSnowscenes
We don't really get much proper snow in north Lancashire. I don't think we ever have really, though I have memories as a small child in the early 80s of a thick coating in the Blackpool...
Read MoreCooling Towers - A Lament
In the not too distant past of the mid-to-late twentieth century you probably knew where you were going and navigated your way towards it with a map and a bit of local knowledge, using...
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