Back as a kid in the 80s I remember going on school trips to the Tudor House museum in Southampton (much of the city was flattened by enemy bombs during WWII so this was one of the few ‘old’…
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These artichokes aren’t in my own garden but aren’t they awesome! I’m very tempted to grow some next year; not so much for eating, more for looking at and photographing (and attracting the bees)……
I don’t want to get all camera-geeky on you but I just wanted to say how much I am loving my latest lens [admin: if you’re reading this, don’t panic, it’s not another new lens, it’s the one I…
Here’s another photo from Friday when I went to Weston Shore. If you’re wondering why you’ve never heard of this south coast beach ‘resort’ before, it’s probably because it’s sandwiched between an oil-refinery and a relatively intimidating, brutalist sink…
Oh dear, I’m really not accustomed to heat, and today it is hot! I’m English, I am designed to thrive when there’s a fine drizzle, heavy cloud and/or mist so it’s a bit of a shock to the system…
I’ve been tinkering with Adobe Lightroom recently and I am loving it! Whereas Photoshop can turn its hand to many, many tasks (and very well, too) Lightroom is geared just towards photography. I took these at the seaside over…
It is innate in us all to want to record the wold around us; to paint a picture, to take a photograph. Don’t you think? film – Pentax K1000 and some Fuji 200 Superia film For some it is…
This weekend there was hidden treasure in the garden… Cafe’s (not this one, this one was more photogenic though)… Dunking… Berries (this is a rowan tree I think)… Purple (I grew this)… Listening (to Beyonce’s new album, which I…
Sunnyfields is our local organic farm on the edge of the New Forest. It’s a great place for Saturday brunch (organic bacon and free-range eggs in a bap – scrummers) and to pick up groceries. I almost ended up…










