Tag: architecture

9 March 2024

Today I joined a small group of fellow enthusiasts for dilapidation and rust. Part of the Talk-Walk-Talk project run by the Digital Imaging and Landscape Groups of the Royal Photographic Society, we visited the St Michael’s Trading Estate in Bridport with their kind permission. A damp overcast day…

15 January 2024

Lyme Regis is my local town, and I take a walk there several times a week if I can manage it. I have hundreds – probably thousands – of images taken there over the years. Sometimes, I just enjoy walking by the sea and don’t see anything I…

30 November 2020

I’ve walked past these outbuilding doors in Bridport countless times, seeing them gradually weather and peel over the years, and thinking “I must take some photos one day”. Their bright turquoise contrasts with the blackened brick walls in which they are set – another subject for another day.…

18 March 2019

Spring weather is always a bit chancy, but I and a friend were lucky with a dry day for our walk. We parked near the harbour in Brixham, and enjoyed the chaotic visual feast that is the working port. Wouldn’t they make great jigsaws? I can never resist…

29 October 2018

Usually I have something in mind when I go out with the camera, but sometimes odd things just pique my interest when I am out and about. So here are three random snaps taken with the phone on a recent visit to Bath, as well as a roofscape.…

18 May 2017

Just off the busy A35 north of Axminster is a delightful oasis of calm and tranquillity. Since the mid-17th century, Baptists have been meeting here in this thatched chapel, often in secret to escape persecution. It’s though that the isolated site was chosen for secrecy, but I do…

27 September 2015

The Landmark Trust has just finished a lengthy restoration of “Belmont”, a fine seaside villa in Lyme Regis, formerly home to the novelist John Fowles and other illustrious residents. It is normally let out as holiday accommodation, but the public were allowed in this weekend. The house itself…