Landscapes My landscape photography can be described as of the William Wordsworth school. I can still remember the impact of reading for the first time that strangely neglected work “Composed upon Westminster Bridge with camera” and absorbing the crucial fundamentals of landscape photography.In this masterclass of photographic expertise, Wordsworth sets out some of the basics of composition, “Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky;” He strongly disapproves of…
Birds and Wildlife There are probably more birds than any other wildlife here. Watching them through the window, during the extended lazy breakfasts granted by retirement, has awoken a new interest and provided a new subject to photograph. As I write this, deep snow is making life hard for the birds. We can help them out with food, but water is also a problem in such low temperatures. Where the snow has dripped off the roof…
Places in Britain I almost always have a camera with me so this collection of images reflects our random wanderings about Britain. There are one or two favourite places which receive more attention and blank areas we have not got round to visiting yet. 1) Around the Ribblehead Viaduct. 2) Britain: inland landscapes.
Seascapes Britain has a lot of coastline and no where is more than seventy miles from the sea. It follows that seascapes must be a major feature in any collection of landscape photographs. The coastline provides an infinite variety of textures, moods and lighting: from the cheerful, tacky, crowded confusion of a busy seaside resort to the wild emptiness of the Hebrides, from a flat desolate esturine mudflat, or sandune coast where the…
Trains “Why the fascination with trains?” I am sometimes asked …“Fascination” being the polite word used, rather than the more derogatory “obsession” or “this rather unhealthy interest” which is what is really being asked, and seems to demand some sort of apology. None of these attributions are accurate or fair. In my case I have been involved with railways all of my life. My father and grandfather were engine drivers, both of whom simply…
Places in Europe. These galleries record some of our travels across Europe. We have occasionally taken a car across the Channel or the North Sea but normally we would go by train and if not by Eurostar, by ferry. A bit of a rant coming up! We used to have a really nice ferry from Scotland to Zeebrugge, which deposited you in Bruges early afternoon, a short ride from Brussels, where sleepers to all parts…
