It’s a whole decade since I first had the idea of posting an image a day from 1st-24th December – so, welcome to my 10th advent calendar. I decided that it was a while since I’d featured any landscapes, and I had quite a lot assembled into a…
Category: photography
Today, I led a walk in conjunction with the RPS‘s Digital Imaging and Landscape Groups with six fellow photographers. Needless to say, after over a week of bright and sunny weather, the day dawned grey and wet, and it stayed overcast all day. But despite the flat light,…
Every year I get together in the summer with a friend and we make an indigo vat. Dyeing with indigo is a mixture of chemistry and magic, rather like developing a film. I’m not going into the detail again as I’ve put up a couple of posts before…
A lot of my photography is based on projects – subjects or techniques that I like to revisit over time, to make a body of work. Of course, like everyone else I take photos of things that catch my eye and may never be repeated or further developed.…
This is a ‘show and tell’ I took part in yesterday. We were asked to bring along some images and talk about them, so here goes: it was dark in the hall and I forgot my glasses so I couldn’t read my notes properly, so this is an…
No, not a rant about politics, but an explanation of the love-it-and-hate-it scent of the common hawthorn, or May Tree, also known as whitethorn and quickthorn (Crataegus monogyna). Just now, the roadside hedges are dotted with the linear wands of flowering hawthorn, and if you are on foot…
For once, the weather forecast for Easter was for sunshine and light winds, so we packed a picnic and headed west early to miss the traffic. We left Uplyme in brilliant sunshine, and were somewhat dismayed as we crossed the Exe to see louring clouds towards our destination.…
Although it’s only about 25 minutes’ drive from my house, Branscombe is one of the few local beaches I’ve never visited. Today was a very low tide so I planned a trip with a friend. We were expecting to spend time rockpooling, but discretion was the better part…
I remembered seeing the name of this recipé somewhere ages ago, and here is my interpretation. It makes a nice breakfast especially if you serve it with fresh fruit. This makes enough for 2 hearty eaters or 3 sparrows. Ingredients 6 dessertspoons of porridge oats Level teaspoon of…