Coniston Copper Mines
Back at the start of March Lucas and I drove out to the Lake District for a wander up the Old Man of Coniston to investigate and photograph some of the old copper mines. Taking it all very...
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Around Langdale
Welcome to 2019, a year that I entered into by driving to the Lake District in the dark to shoot its first sunrise. The resulting image is above - though that's far from the vision I had when I...
Read MoreAutumn 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,...
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 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...
Read MoreThe Gower Peninsula
I spent an enjoyable few days in North Wales last November that included a day trip to the south to take a wander round an old colliery, so with time to pass I decided to take a full week this...
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