Last week Mrs O and I spent another week in Southwold. We like to go when the grockles are not there and even though we are visitors, I don’t class ourselves as grockles as we live in the county and this is just another of our many resorts. I had hoped to photograph the cliffs […]
Dogs at Bamburgh
A couple of dog pictures from Bamburgh beach. What is it with the craziness of Spaniels? Always running and endless energy? Labradors and water go together. We kept a lab cross for 14 years. Bilbo was an absolute lummox of a dog as only a Labrador can be. Water of any kind was a magnet. […]
Today I saw a railway van
This morning dawned cold and foggy in North Yorkshire. Mrs O was off to Skipton to revel in yarns and I was going north on to the fells for some autumnal photography. Both film and digital cameras were packed along with the obligatory Fat Rascal – an essential for any foray to the fells. Alas, […]
Budle Point – apart from the pack
Following on from my last post, when faced with the hoardes of photographers waiting on the rocks at Bamburgh I turned my attention to the Trinity House structure and Budle Point. Much as I like contre-jour this was going to be a full on sunrise with little or no chance of decent sky colour. There […]
Autumn seems to have arrived a tad early
This week has been full on already. Monday was a plumbing day. I have learned over the years not to start such jobs on a Sunday as there is always some gizmo or part that requires a trip to a proper plumbers merchant. We lasted all of last winter with a dodgy radiator valve in […]
Morning has broken
I had a request for a close up of one of the Mimosa flowers so after the winds of the last few days, the forecast was set right for dawn today with sub 3mph winds and what a dawn it was too. I felt that tremble as blood and emotions coursed through my veins at […]
Lightning does not strike twice
Last night a sudden brief but blindingly bright and fleeting light illuminated the sky from behind us. I peered out of the window. There was nothing to see. Some while later I decided to see if the day’s storm clouds had cleared the night skies for some more experimental low light photography. I then discovered […]
Fish finger sandwich – Southwold style
Yesterday, the sun shone, just as it is today. Often on an Winter’s day when we get a high sitting over us and we happen to be not compelled to work, we will head up the coast to Southwold. We last went there on New Year’s Eve. I forgot that it was half-term until we […]
Waste not want not
I watched a BBC ‘World About Us’ documentary this morning. Simon Robinson, a PhD student of photography tweeted the link and as I studied the author and presenter as part of my degree project work I’ll share it also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL7-LqQhjE This film was shown in July 1975 , produced by the BBC in Bristol as […]
Subjective colour – CSCL Globe
I thought better of heading down to Felixstowe this morning. I really did not want my gear ending up in the North Sea unlike my fellow photographer in the last post. The wind had been quite gusty overnight but nothing like the Outer Hebrides. What an awful Shipping Forecast this morning. I did experiment with […]