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Category Archives: landscape

5
Mar 2014

IGPOTY at The Photography Show, 2014

I received a copy of the International Garden Photographer of the Year ‘Collection Seven’ book yesterday. With the judges final choices for 2014, it is a beautiful presentation of work, especially for those whose images are represented.   A list of all the judges. I really enjoyed meeting so many people over the two days I spent at The Photography Show as part of the IGPOTY programme of events. I lost count how many portfolio critiques I gave, but I saw many lovely images. For anyone thinking of entering next year, I’ll repeat the main point of the talks I […]

IGPOTY 2014, Collection Seven
18
Feb 2014

River Brent

  The name ‘Brent’ is apparently derived from Celtic and Old English, meaning ‘sacred waters’, which is rather sad given the river running through areas of West London has long been regarded, by many, as an inconvenience and just in the way. It has been channelled around Brent Cross shopping centre, straightened and contained by the North Circular Road, built over and diverted through a tunnel near Wembley Stadium and generally used as a tip or dump for anything from cars to chemical waste. And it’s only 16 miles long. The name reflects the Celts’ belief that all rivers (and […]

2
Sep 2013

Hemsby, Norfolk

Hemsby, Norfolk. Haven’t had time to upload pics recently, with work and holidays taking priority! Ironically some pics taken last December on another roll of film that only got processed today.
22
Jul 2013

First and last

First and last. I loaded a roll of film into and old Russian Zorki 4 over five years ago. Then forgot about it. I finished the last few frames on Friday. It was interesting for me to see how differently I now work.  
27
Mar 2013

Barry Island, 1980.

Barry Island, 1980. I saw a blog post about Barry Island last year. In South Wales, it was home of the largest train scrapyard in the UK. Curiosity led to search through some ancient ring binders containing 35mm slides taken as a student. I found a small set of images from a walk, probably in 1980. This made me 19 years old. Yikes! On the side of one of the trains was a hand painted note, “Do not remove parts – for Plym Valley Railway”. I would love to know if the Plym Valley Railway ever took delivery of this […]

Barry Island train scrapyard, 1980