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December 15, 2021

Gods waiting room

I live on a small estate made up of bungalows. Single story houses only. Consequently there is a preponderance...

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November 13, 2021

Egypt

A while back we visited an area of Egypt near to Luxor in the Valley of the Kings.Here are...

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June 4, 2021

New Topographics.

I have taken pictures from an early age and subsequently, I’ve been producing ‘work’ for over 50 years. I...

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March 12, 2021

Birmingham in 1891

A few years ago I came across a very slim, ornate volume at a car boot sale.Recently, whilst tidying...

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November 17, 2019

Boston 2018

A picture taken in Boston, near to St Botolphs church, aka Boston Stump. This image was originally taken as...

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November 7, 2019

Tea on the Meridian

Three ladies and their dogs. A misty autumn morning in September, drinking tea sitting on the Greenwich Meridian near Cleethorpes.

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June 30, 2019

Pictures of the banal continued.

Shop window sign in the sun. Lincoln 2019.

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April 16, 2019

Pictures of the banal contd…

South Hykeham, Lincolnshire. April 2019

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April 16, 2019

Fellow travelers contd…

The project continues. Lincoln 2019

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February 20, 2019

Once we were friends.

I have early memories from when I was a child, of furniture, amongst other things, being dumped on waste...

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January 13, 2019

What am I doing this year?

This year sees me working on a number of long term projects plus anything which attracts my attention. I...

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April 18, 2018

New project pages

I’ve been rationalising these pages recently. I’ve included a section on the site called “Projects and Series” . You can...

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March 23, 2018

A Line Runs Through It

For the purpose of navigation, the earth is notionally divided into Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The line which divides...

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November 6, 2017

Reduced Landscapes:

I’ve admired the work of the abstract expressionist artist, Mark Rothko for many years. His reduction of images to...

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July 2, 2020

Proverbs 21:13

This image was made underneath the arches of the 16thC Stonebow in the centre of ancient Lincoln, in the...

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April 27, 2020

A Line Runs through it – online.

Back in early April I wrote here about the possibility of an on-line exhibition of the works comprising this...

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April 15, 2020

Wistful

I’m wistful for the days pre Covid-19. A time when we could all get out and about. These images...

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January 7, 2020

The Haxey Hood. 2020.

This game, now nearly 700 years old, is held on the 6th of January* each year. Thousands gather in...

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November 13, 2019

You have to be there very early.

The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, except perhaps, when it has swarms...

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October 6, 2019

A note to the artist.

I visited an exhibition of photography in Hull yesterday – 5th October 2019. Amongst the work there was a...

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October 2, 2019

Perishing shrines

Work by Lisa Ross. Lisa Ross is a New York based artist. Her work in this exhibition shows images...

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September 12, 2019

Add perspective into your life.

In her own words. One woman’s life, and what a lesson it is for us all. “I am not sure...

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May 15, 2020

The little cares that fretted me…

Out in the fields. Original by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. My apologies for the corruption. The little cares that fretted...

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January 7, 2020

The Haxey Hood. 2020.

This game, now nearly 700 years old, is held on the 6th of January* each year. Thousands gather in...

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November 7, 2019

Tea on the Meridian

Three ladies and their dogs. A misty autumn morning in September, drinking tea sitting on the Greenwich Meridian near Cleethorpes.

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November 6, 2019

Fellow travelers, Birmingham.

An image from a continuing series on ‘Fellow Travellers’, this image was made on a bus as it entered...

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August 28, 2019

Fairground attraction 1970’s

Back in the late 1970’s, I would wander around my home city of Birmingham, camera in hand. At the...

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August 26, 2019

Differing opinions.

For me, a satisfying image has shapes and layers. I was at the SteamPunk festival in Lincoln on Saturday....

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July 4, 2019

Skegness.

An image made in July 2014 on the pier at Skegness, Lincolnshire. This image has been very popular over...

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April 19, 2019

Crucified in the market square.

It’s Good Friday. As a Humanist, the religious aspect of this holds little interest for me, I merely observe,...

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December 27, 2019

Through a misty window.

This image is of ‘Human Artists Mannequins’ dumped in a vacated coffee shop. Lincoln 2019.

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November 6, 2019

Fellow travelers, Birmingham.

An image from a continuing series on ‘Fellow Travellers’, this image was made on a bus as it entered...

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November 5, 2019

Dublin

A street image from a walk in Dublin.

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August 28, 2019

Fairground attraction 1970’s

Back in the late 1970’s, I would wander around my home city of Birmingham, camera in hand. At the...

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August 26, 2019

Differing opinions.

For me, a satisfying image has shapes and layers. I was at the SteamPunk festival in Lincoln on Saturday....

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April 26, 2019

Skin Heads. Birmingham, ’70’s/’80’s

Recently, I was trying to decide on a picture to put in place at home. Knowing Sue, my wife...

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April 16, 2019

Save the Usher Gallery

Another picture from the protest march last Saturday.

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March 24, 2019

Do we stay or do we go?

If, like me, you are sick to the back teeth of hearing the word Brexit I’m afraid this piece...

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November 13, 2021

Egypt

A while back we visited an area of Egypt near to Luxor in the Valley of the Kings.Here are...

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November 13, 2019

You have to be there very early.

The Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, except perhaps, when it has swarms...

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November 6, 2019

Fellow travelers, Birmingham.

An image from a continuing series on ‘Fellow Travellers’, this image was made on a bus as it entered...

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July 21, 2019

Faded Grandeur.

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi is a world view centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is...

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May 12, 2019

A visit to the Barbican in the City of London.

I don’t know about you, but I thought the Barbican in London was simply an arts centre – “simply an...

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March 8, 2019

Darkly…

Darkly through a window spied Spectres from the other side

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January 22, 2019

My fellow passengers – Jan 2019

Here’s a few images from this project taken in Lincoln recently.

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June 14, 2018

Just a holiday

We decided to go away and do nothing. That’s unusual for us. A week away just doing nothing. I took...

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April 28, 2020

Book Review: An Inner Silence.

Book review Title: An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Authors: Forward by Agnes Sire. Introduction by Jean-Luc-Nancy....

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May 6, 2019

I can’t move the sun, and it’s always in the wrong place

I’m going to start this piece by declaring that, at no time in my life have I ever been...

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April 10, 2019

“Some people take pictures, I find them.”

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October 1, 2017

Book Review: Small Town Inertia

Title: Small Town Inertia. Photographer: J A Mortram. Essays: Lewis Bush. Paul Mason. Poem: Jamie Thrashivoulou Reference: ISBN 9781908457363 First...

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January 22, 2017

Book Review: Beauty in Decay II

Title: Beauty in Decay II. Photographer: RomanyWG. Essays: Polly Chillery. Reference: ISBN 978-1-908211-10-1. First published: 2012 by Carpet Bombing Culture. Web...

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November 24, 2016

Book review: On the Night Bus. Nick Turpin

Title: On the Night Bus. Photographer: Nick Turpin Reference: ISBN 978-1-910566-16-9 First published: 2016 by Hoxton Press. Web site: www.hoxtonminipress.com...

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November 6, 2016

Book review: Humphrey Spender’s Humanist Landscapes

Title: Humphrey Spender’s Humanist Landscapes Author: Deborah Frizzell ISBN: 0-300-07334-8 Softcover: 70 pages of introduction plus 100 plates Images:...

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October 31, 2016

Book review: Street The Human Clay. Lee Friedlander

This excellent review by John Meehan kicks off a series of posts by guest publishers. Hardcover: 224 pages Images: 209...

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December 16, 2019

Vibrant art in Lincoln Gallery.

An exhibition of picture by the artist Jacob Lawson opened in the Sam Scorer Gallery in Lincoln this week....

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October 2, 2019

Perishing shrines

Work by Lisa Ross. Lisa Ross is a New York based artist. Her work in this exhibition shows images...

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August 16, 2019

Full Circle.

An exhibition of Images by Emma Bowater and James Millichamp. Taking their inspiration and source images from the built...

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July 12, 2019

The Beautiful Error.

I visited an exhibition of striking work by photographer Katie Hallam in the delightful, bijou Gallery at St Martin’s,...

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September 3, 2020

I don’t talk about cameras but…

Generally I make it a principle not to talk about cameras. However, today I want to make an exception....

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August 26, 2020

The Generalist photographer

Post section headings Gearism A simple fact What to take pictures of Visual awareness Darkroom printing Who is it...

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June 25, 2020

Harry Burton. The man who shot Tutankhamun.

In late 2017-early 2018, The Collection – a modern extension to Lincoln’s Usher Gallery – held a small exhibition...

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September 5, 2018

Set yourself free from the megapixel race.

The megapixel race, with its pursuit of sharpness, seems unending. Is this really important or is it just a...

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