After another year of partial confinement (and here we go again…), I’m opting for a relatively easy subject, as for 2020. As you can see them from almost anywhere, I’ve chosen “Clouds” as my topic for Advent – a bit of an overlap with last year – but…
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Perhaps my post title is rather over-egging the pudding (a hog’s pudding perhaps?), but I wanted to demonstrate that you can find something interesting even in the most pedestrian circumstances. In this case, a short walk on a very grey winter’s day from the car to the post…
… in this case, muted fall colours that matched my mood until I spent a couple of hours wandering in the forest with a friend. Time spent outdoors and concentrating on the natural world improved my outlook no end. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit” –…
… the title of a book that Ian McEwan doesn’t yet know he wants to write. Or it might just be that, finding myself with an unexpected hour on the beach this morning, I decided to wander along and see what I could see. It was very enjoyable…
In September, I had a small exhibition at the Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery Shop in Symondsbury. Having done a very successful show there back in 2019 (remember those dreamy days when life just worked?), I developed a new body of work for this one. The first, Waterline, was boat hull…
Pardon the pun on the title of Baden-Powell’s classic of 1908, but this is all about the importance of familiarising yourself with a new photographic location. All the more important if it’s somewhere you are unlikely to revisit any time soon. Of course, one might be lucky (and…
I go to Lyme Regis, my local town, several times a week, and have photographed much of it over and over. I’m always anticipating the end of creative opportunities, but if you look hard enough, there’s always something. F’rinstance, today I did my usual trawl though the boat…
We were lucky to choose a sunny day for exploring some South Devon beaches – not so easy this summer, which has been alternately cold and wet, grey and humid, sunny and dry. Starting at Ayrmer Cove (which I visited last year), we enjoyed the beautiful rock formations…
13th June A couple of years ago, I paid a mid-July visit to the wildflower meadows at Hogchester, just a couple of miles from where I live. This year I managed an earlier visit to see a different flora – the oxeye daisies in particular were wonderful. The…