I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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We’ve just come back from a little over a week in north west Italy: Turin and Piemonte, and Genova and its coastline to the east. We didn’t have universally good weather but we didn’t have our programme materially affected and…
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Jordan 2023
I’ve put together a photobook of my recent holiday in Jordan. I’m slowly working out how to present my photographs with as much impact as possible. I ‘m getting there, but slowly.
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Photo of the Month: April 2023
This is a phone shot and was taken with my Samsung 20E, 1/1200th at f2.2 and ISO40. This is the queue outside Lost in Vinyl on Record Store Day. It’s given a letter box crop to include the full length…
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There’s been a change of ownership at my gym
Not a big deal you might say and I’d agree because I’ve been using a gym somewhere or another for 50 years or so.
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One photo a year: my first decade of digital photography (2004 to 2013)
I’ve been taking photos for some time now and started digital photography almost twenty years ago. I’ve published a selection of photos from the first 10 years in the pdf below.
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Visiting Copenhagen (and Denmark in general)
Last night was the start of another eight part Scandi Noir on BBC4. It’s based in Copenhagen and it got me thinking. I’ve generally got a positive opinion of the city way removed from the darker side which we see…
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Photo of the Month: March 2023 (and February)
Sometimes the choice is just rather easy and so it is for March, 2023. This is number one granddaughter at the Van Gogh ‘immersive’ in York. It’s a hand held shot and was a quick take as Amelia turned to…
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I’m of an age when I think about such matters
It began on Thursday evening. I go to a one hour cardio exercise class expertly run by Steve Symonds. It runs for an hour, there’s generally 8 or 10 of us there and it’s good value. We chat a bit…
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Rather chuffed about this
I read Digital Camera magazine each month. It’s not a bad read, I take some inspiration from it, and I have it on subscription so it’s not too expensive. One of its regular features is a selection of readers’ photographs.…
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Photo of the Month: January 2023
Lots of competition this month with some super stuff from my trip to Jordan. Petra itself delivered multiple good shots but my pick for this month is this shot of the Roman ruins in Jerash. It’s taken from the north…
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