In the summer took a couple of weeks to travel around the Pre-Pyrenees, then on to the Mediterranean coast. I had a weekend off in Madrid to see the wonders of the Prado again, and to revisit my favourite bar and barman. Don’t bother with the inside of the Guggenheim in Bilbao – the best […]
Every year since 1946, they have carved a grotto into the glacier at Mer du Glace. Inside are ice sculptures, illuminated with coloured lights. Not only does glacial ice have an incredible blue colour, it also has a very strange texture – almost like plastic. Seeing the tiny air bubbles in the ice, trapped during […]
Patterns and textures from around Göteborg. […]
People are often disheartened when they ask to see my holiday photos and they’re all of peeling paint and manhole covers, but I like that kind of stuff. So there. […]
In recent years, I’ve been making biannual trips to the Isle of Man to visit my brother and niblings. When I’m not trying to keep up with the heavy drinking I try to shoot a few frames, even if it’s just around Peel. It’s a proper gem that people in the UK don’t realise is […]
The hunt for interesting, abstract patterns continues… […]
Hobbling around Dover Castle on crutches in the winter – an interesting choice for my first photo day out since breaking my ankle in the Lake District. Lugging a rucksack full of DSLR gear around might have been a bit ambitious… […]
Visiting the Lake District in October might not have been the wisest idea… It’s rainy enough in the summer! You couldn’t see the tops of the fells most of the time, so landscape photography wasn’t really an option. If you’re up that way, check out the Honister Slate Mine – fascinating place. It’s the last […]
As Venice is on a lagoon, the water is a lovely emerald green – considerably cleaner than it was when I went there as a boy. This gives an ethereal quality to reflections one doesn’t get with fresh water. […]
I’d not visited Barcelona since I was a child and after my trip to Morocco, I didn’t fancy returning to cold England, so spent a week exploring.The last time I’d been to Dalí’s house/theatre/museum, he was still living there. […]