The Taylor Wessing 2014 catalogue dropped through my letterbox on Saturday. In it, there is an article on Beauty written by Eamonn McCabe. It is a well written article and I believe I have seen some of the images before at one of Eamonn’s talks. I had certainly heard the stories before in small group […]
Today I saw the Princes Street Kingfisher
It has been weeks now since I sighted the regular Kingfisher near the Princes Street Bridge on the Gipping. I had wondered whether it had moved to open waters and a saltier environment rather than this mixed tidal and freshwater section. These delightful small predators raise my vibrations no matter what else is going on […]
Black and White challenge – day 5
I agonised over what to post for this final image but finally settled on the Rural Idyll image. This was made at sunrise in June 2013 near Waldringfield. I had spotted this contraption during a winter’s drive when I decided to take a different route home from Woodbridge. After that I could not remember where […]
A taste for heights
In a recent meeting with partners discussing a forthcoming exhibition I showed a few test prints from my series Edgelands. These were 1×1.25m inkjet prints and I pointed out that the camera was about eight feet off the ground for these images. I often shoot my large format images of landscape features this way but […]
Yorkshireman made environment
Apart from the forces of nature, most of this island presents itself as adapted by mankind to suit its needs of the times. I studied the aspects of our intervention and shaping of the landscape for my degree but on a short trip up to North Yorkshire to the spawning grounds of the great industrial […]
Ribblehead viaduct, and a Fat Rascal = a Grand day Out
It has been a long time. As a child I took it for granted that days out or ‘a run in the car’ were the norm and visits to the Lakes, the Trough of Bowland and the Yorkshire moors were commonplace along with egg and cress sandwiches, soggy tomato and sliced tinned ham sandwiches and […]
Monument?
Over the long weekend in Harrogate, I took off to explore the Valley Gardens and the thick woodland towards the upper reaches of this jewel of a green lung right in the middle of the town. Mrs O was not at her best and had decided to stay indoors knitting. She does not like scary […]
Swaledale views
One of the joys for me yesterday was dropping off Mrs O at Skipton to peruse the yarns and other paraphernalia at YarnDale whilst I took off to drive up to Buttertubs and back via Askrigg. Plenty of 120 was shot but those latent images are still to be developed. I had the D3S with […]
I had forgotten…….
I had forgotten How beautiful North Yorkshire is at this time of year How much I like Fat Rascals and Curd Tarts and Mrs O does not How dysfunctional the service can be at Bettys (Harrogate) How the service can be at Bettys when done properly as on Sunday night How the Pump Street bakery […]
A ripping yarn
My wife is a yarn addict. I like to tell a yarn and I like cake. My wife’s addiction had discovered a not so often open cake and yarn shop in Otley so when the offer of cake was made this morning I as usual packed a camera. Now, for those of you who know […]