The weather yesterday afternoon, when I stumbled upon CSCL Globe berthed at Landguard with half the population of Suffolk blocking Viewpoint Road was dire. It is as equally if not more dire as I write this post today. I got a good vantage point yesterday from the nature reserve with the elevated position overlooking the […]
Largest ship in the world berths at Felixstowe
I went on a recce this afternoon along the Eastern edges of Ipswich looking for Edgelands sites. It was grim in terms of weather and nothing was stimulating my photography buds so I hoofed it down to Felixstowe to see if anything was in at Landguard. Well, I’ve never seen so much traffic. I was […]
Testing times
It seems as if disasters are all around us, a passenger jet down in the sea in the Phillipines, a SAAB blown off a runway in Stornoway, a three legged Jumbo jet landing at Gatwick, two vessels cast adrift with refugees from Syria in the Med (patrolled by the Icelandic Border patrol – work that […]
A cold start
I decided to use the motor this morning. I was all walked out yesterday and getting to the Orwell Bridge with a shed load of gear is not that easy on foot. I pulled out of the garage to a bitterly cold morning but luckily for me no ice-scaping. It totally surprised me to encounter […]
Today, I saw a weasel
I got a shock this morning when I tipped a certain weight on the bathroom scales so I went for a long walk. The last time I walked to Sproughton from Ipswich town centre along the Gipping path must have been in early 2011. Whilst at Uni, I fell out of the habit. The river […]
Hurrah! The days are getting longer.
I was out before dawn today. No bicycle. A bit too windy for me so shank’s pony was in order and yet more testing as I get to grips with the metering and handling of this camera. It is so different to the D3S. Being out before dawn is not too onerous a task at […]
Alert, Vigilant and gone for a Burton
I was alerted to the Trinity House vessel moored in the Wet Dock a few days ago but last night as I made my way from the station to the UCS campus to visit the ‘Untitled.’ degree show student’s exhibition last night at St Clement Church I noticed a revenue cutter was moored alongside the […]
I heard the news ….. Oh Boy
Last night there was a snippet of news on the BBC about Constable’s painting, ‘The Mill Stream’ having undergone restoration and conservation work. I was very lucky to have worked with Emma Roodhouse, Curator of Art at Ipswich and Colchester Museum Service as part of an internship between my second and third years at University. […]
I thought of Ian Moss
As I was cycling around this morning make pictorial notes of research sites for more in-depth studies I discovered this relic and immediately thought of Ian Moss, not that he is in any way a relic, but rather I think, this is something he might be drawn (sic) to. These are just pictorial notes. […]
Seagull watches over Searcher
In 1979 I was on the commissioning crew of HMRC Searcher. She was a 30m craft built in Lowestoft by Brooke Marine. I had a fabulous time on that shake down cruise circumnavigating Great Britain through a particularly stormy 4 months. This morning the current day Searcher and nothing remotely like what I served on […]