Unspoilt by Progress?
When asked by the organisers of my forthcoming exhibition 'A Time it Was' to revisit some of the locations and produce current contrasting (or complimentary) images, I 'thought' my way…
Princess Grace at Hagley Hall 1980
Let there be Light
Exactly thirty seven years ago (to the month, if not the day) Princess Grace of Monaco visited Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, UK. That's a bit like saying you were…
Out of Nature – art in landscape
I've no idea why, but I often struggle with 3D art in a gallery. A space that seems perfectly suited to a flat two dimensional image somehow seems inadequate to…
Oh, what’s occurrin’…?
What's occurring is my sixty-sixth birthday. And Dot and I chose to occur it on the Gower Peninsula. Wales. UK. Ten years ago we visited the Gower. The King Arthur…
It’s only rugby, don’t lose your head…
Somedays, photography is really easy. When three headless rugby players, a dinosaur and Captain Hook all turn up in the same place, under a fluffy clouded September sky, on a…
Monarch of the Bren
While driving around this week taking pictures of events and happenings celebrating the long serving reign of our queen, I was reminded of a photograph I took last year. "Quick,…
Unthankuverymuch
“Going off The Unthanks” a friend I met at Moseley Folk Festival offered. “Preferred 'em when they were just a capella and clog dancing. Too over-produced nowadays.” Over-produced clog dancing...I…
Editorial/Press
Stourbridge's Mary Stevens Park had an extensive (and probably expensive) refurbishment of their 1931 main gates, which are modelled on the ones at Buckingham Palace. Funding came from the Heritage…
Coast
Another cycling/camping holiday in the Netherlands comes to an end. Another splendid diet of applecake and waffles (for strength and stamina, obviously) makes way for the usual UK fayre. Another…