My daughter’s birthday today and also very typical weather for a bank holiday Sunday with a cold wind and heavy cloud and the odd spot of rain! So, what to do? Well, we’d seen that the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway were celebrating 40yrs since the making of the film ‘The Railway Children’ which was...
Every year the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire turns back the clock to October 1943 and has a commemorative war weekend when the whole town dresses up in 1940s clothes. The shops are covered with bomb blast tape, sandbags are piled up and the town centre is closed off to modern vehicles – only vintage restored...
I called round at my good friend Richard Bell’s tonight to enjoy a glass of wine and hear about his new book “Richard Bell’s Britain Revisited”. I can’t believe it’s 30 years since he wrote his original ‘Britain’ book, since when he’s been concentrating on his series of local books as well as his other many...
Took the opportunity of a wedding free bank holiday to head off in the motorhome for a few days nature photography. We headed to Dumfrieshire, in particular, the area around Portpatrick where I had a brief winter weekend break a few years back. Portpatrick in spring is a very different place for the wildlife and...
Had a brief interlude from weddings over the bank holiday and went to the North Yorkshire Moors with the family and as usual I couldn’t resist shooting a few steam train images! While not wanting to fill the blog with this kind of stuff, I thought I’d post this shot, done in the yards at...
I suppose one of the benefits of being a pro photographer is that, in theory at least, I should be able to come up with some quirky and different holiday snaps. So, in the spirit of the game, here’s my son Richard free falling from the sky around the afore mentioned Norber erratics.
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