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# the silver image

photographs by Phil Loach

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- [Coast](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/07/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 realisation that Brits will never achieve what the Dutch have done with their fabulous cycle routes and their open-hearted acceptance and love of two wheeled
- [Editorial/Press](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/07/editorialpress-2/) - Photographs of Mary Stevens Park gates, Stourbridge, refurbished using Heritage Lottery and Big Lottery funds.
- [Wednesday morning at the Hagley Palladian (Bridge)](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/08/wednesday-morning-at-the-hagley-palladian-bridge/) - I was bouncing down a winding dirt track in a golf buggy, facing backwards with my camera bag on my lap and Joe the landscape gardener hanging on alongside me, following the twisting ravine that carries the stream from a rotunda on top of a hill to a Palladian Bridge and pool at the bottom.
- [Red Lemons anniversary pic](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/08/red-lemons-anniversary-pic/) - I was asked to recreate a classic band pic of the Red Lemons Electric Blues Band for the local paper, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. They had reformed to do some anniversary gigs, and a 1980's promo pic featuring the band with an American car was the model and inspiration for the new shoot. The
- [Unthankuverymuch](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/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 ask you. Admittedly there were long, quite long moments when the sisters stood gazing wistfully towards West Bromwich, while a melancholic solo trumpet and hissing
- [Monarch of the Bren](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/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, come and have a look in here" suggested my wife, as I sipped a pint in the Propeller Inn pub at Bembridge on the Isle
- [Funtimes at Dismaland](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/funtimes-at-dismaland/) - Three quid buys you very little these days. Nearly a pint of beer (so long as you're north of Watford), almost a magazine, a bus ride to not quite where you want to go. Or a few hours at Dismaland. Apocalypse by the Sea. Walking down the prom to the old Lido at Weston-Super-Mare, I
- [A politician's lot is oft a snappy one...(apologies to G&S)](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/a-politicians-lot-is-oft-a-snappy-one-apologies-to-gs/) - People regularly say politicians are two faced. For a photographer, that is often a good thing. In fact, the more faces a politician can summon up, the merrier. Watch the news on the telly, and see the flashes go off when there is any slight animation from a normally po-faced public figure. It's what the
- [It's only rugby, don't lose your head...](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/its-only-rugby-dont-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 red carpet, half an hour from where you live, it would be churlish to refuse a quick snap. Stourport funfair in Worcestershire, UK provided the
- [Oh, what's occurrin'...?](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/09/oh-whats-occurring/) - 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 at Reynoldston was good a decade ago, and blow me, it still is. Well done somebody. I love the idea of hitting a cattle grid,
- [Out of Nature - art in landscape](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/10/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 a piece of sculpture. I suppose a painting or photograph operates on a plane, and you never see beyond that surface. With a piece of
- [Go Ape Young Man - or Woman](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/10/go-ape-young-man-or-woman/) - "Faaaaaaaaaarrrk!" "Sheeeeeeeeeet!" "Sorry!!" Birdsong gave way to blasphemy as an army of zip-wiring, tree scrambling outdoor pursuitists whooshed, whistled and thudded their way around the vertigo inducing playground that is Go Ape. "Sheeeeeeeeeet!" I was photographing the flying funsters for Liz Walsh's Top Dog Days website, but with my own size 11's firmly planted on
- [Going with the first idea..](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/10/going-with-the-first-idea/) - I freelance regularly for a group of newspapers in the West Midlands/Worcestershire. My jobs arrive by email, with usually no discussion about picture requirements, with neither the organisers nor the organized. Not ideal, but that is the way it works (or doesn't, occasionally). I'm not too sure what the photographic colleges would make of this,
- [Bats, bats, bats...and more bats](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/10/bats-bats-bats-and-more-bats/) - I suppose we've all wondered how a bat goes to the toilet. Oh? Just me then...should have known. Anyway, they just let go, so to speak, while hanging there, upside down. Bat splutter is not a sound I'm familiar with, but I assume it happens, or not. I did learn some other facts in Dudley
- [Roses are Red, Roses are Blue...](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/11/roses-are-red-roses-are-blue/) - A dyed rose has sat in a bullet glass on our mantelpiece for many months now. It was a gift to my wife who was a guest at a gay wedding. And the rose, a little faded and jaded now, is still a gay little thing in itself. When it first arrived the colours were
- [Times they are a changin'...still](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/11/times-they-are-a-changin-still/) - Newspaper photo assignment with Dudley councillor Jackie Cowell. A gang of teenagers carrying hammers and pick handles were reported to the police in Netherton.
- [Nuthin' Wrong with Dudley...](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/12/nuthin-wrong-with-dudley/) - Sir Lenny Henry unveils MOBO award slab Buffery Park Dudley
- [The Unusual Suspects](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2015/12/the-unusual-suspects/) - Photograph of school Christmas play in the fashion of The Usual Suspects promo pic.
- [Let there be Light](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2017/01/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 chatting to Mick Jagger on the number 74 bus to West Bromwich, or you bumped into Sir John Betjeman in the sausage queue on Melton
- [Unspoilt by Progress?](https://www.thesilverimage.co.uk/2017/02/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 around the area, trying to imagine where most change had taken place. Or indeed least change. Although I visit these places regularly in the course

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