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  • Daffodil Time

    Imperceptibly,Snowdrops become daffodils…Seasonal update. Sorry. Haven’t written a haiku for simply ages. Not even a bad one. Ritva’s post about emerging snowdrops aligned with my sense of how the world dances through ever changing yet constantly revisited cycles. Sometimes, it feels the pulse of the dance is accelerating, and I’m like to trip in my…

  • So good we rode it thrice!

    Lens Artists Challenge 388 seeks five to ten images recounting a journey. Pre-covid, my brother in law and I rode up to the Western Isles on motorcycles, and although photography wasn’t the primary purpose – that was the motorcycling and the whisky! – here are a handful of shots. We started out in 2017 on…

  • Even more shadowed…

    Almost as soon as I posted that I didn’t do much photography with shadows as the main feature, up popped these. This little bluest has been with us for the past week or so, tap tapping on every downstairs window – either it’s finding tiny insects on the glass and frame or perhaps he’s seeing…

  • Lens Artists Challenge 387: Shadowed

    Reviewing my archive of photographs I realise I’ve not often given sufficient thought to shadow. As a technique of light capture, the art of deliberately not catching it (!) has largely escaped me, and I guess I’m grateful to John for this challenge, which prompts me to put more thought into shadow work.  That’s shadow…

  • Colour or Mono

    Both of these images are fine as colour; some paperwhites – a form of narcissus – and an eggshell – perhaps an early blackbird. But in mono they seem almost to work better. Choices, Colour or Mono. Over to you. There is no wrong answer…

  • A woodland walk

    There are days when I really feel I should have carried the big camera. And yet days when I’m thankful I didn’t. Today was a blend of both of these feelings… No Sony, but I did have my iPhone 11 You can see the difference in the light looking east and west A casual stroll…

  • The ethics of street photography

    I’m not a great street photographer, but I enjoy looking at it and finding the stories in the captured scenes. I’m uneasy, personally, about the idea of breaching someone’s personal space without implicit permission. The matter was brought home to me the other day, when a family member asked me to unshare a photo I’d…

  • Cotswold Cloud Motor Trials

    A few shots from section 13 of the trials. This is a track called “The Ladder” that runs alongside the super-twisty and super-steep “W” outside the town of Nailsworth in Gloucestershire. The W itself is a challenge, but this is something else. At least it didn’t rain, so most of the competitors made it up…

  • My first Aurora Borealis

    Exciting times… my phone pinged and it was a neighbour inviting all our little lane community to come out and see what the night sky was doing! I’ve never before seen the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, and it was remarkable to see them at our 51.6ºN latitude and with the naked eye! With the…

  • Lens-Artists Challenge: Mono Minimalism

    I thought I’d fall into this challenge because it was wholly outwith my presumed expertise. That is, if I have any… I don’t tend to shoot black and white, for one thing. Neither do I tend towards minimalist in either subject or processing style. That makes my entry both doubly difficult and possibly entirely off-theme…

  • It’s all about the light

    Hurrah for the returning Sun! About now it’s really clear that the days are both longer and lighter. Buds are developing in the trees and shrubs, bulbs are pushing through the soil, and once again birdsong wakes me in the morning. Here are three recent shots. The common factor is the lighting.

  • Counting Birds

    I notice that some of the folk I check in with online keep a note of how many different bird species they’ve spotted in the year. I’m not really a birder, but birds do occupy a significant part of my photography. And with the Big Garden Birdwatch coming up, it’s a good time to think…

  • Last and First

    2025 went out in a mist, as if the future was unclear. 2026, though, started with sunshine and energy (and, it has to be said, a slightly fluffy head and wobbly knees, but that’s NYE for you…). Nothing like a nice 8km yomp through muddy fields with 140m elevation gain to wake up bleary eyes…

  • The spaces in-between

    It’s a pause, a waiting time. Literally, we have recently passed through the Yule winter solstice, where the Sun seems to stand still – the noontime low point remaining a constant for three days. And now Christmas is done. I’m never overly “in to” Christmas, but it is a time to reconnect with family and…

  • Going to pot…

    (a constantly evolving page, do revisit from time to time if this sort of local activism interests you…) As much as I enjoy a walk in the woods, most of my walking is in the semi-rural environment of my village. I’ve noticed, over the years I’ve been living here, a massive degradation of the roads…

  • Tree Blessing

    Around thirteen months ago, Storm Bert raced across the country and in passing tore into a focal point willow tree in the middle of the village. Enough damage was caused that, sadly, the whole tree had to come down. Today it was my pleasure to have a new replacement tree – a copper beech –…

  • Sun Salutation

    No, nothing yogish here… too old and too creaky to start that now. But if I had to pick my best photo’s of 2025, I think this one would be in there. A chance grab with the camera, as we walked out this afternoon. Dropping down into the valley at Damery, Gloucestershire, the setting Sun…

  • ’tis the season

    If your belief system, faith or religion doesn’t allow irreverence, ridicule and laughter it’s no more than a dogmatic straightjacket… Druidry has been reinvented too many times for anyone to know exactly what the original Druids – who almost certainly didn’t call themselves Druids – thought. All we have are the words of those who…