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For various reasons that I spoke about in my last post, I haven’t been out with my camera and whilst the Fuji X100V with me to Scotland it didn’t come out. This is mainly because the dates were full of golf and socialising. It’s hard to carry a camera as you play but I did […]

I’ve had a few weeks where I haven’t really been thinking about photography or had the motivation to get out and take any. This is following the death of my youngest brother, we are burying him and celebrating his life on Friday, we can all start to process what’s happened. This weekend I had the

For those who are regular readers you will be aware that my project for 2024 is photographing a section of the River Mersey from (almost) Stockport Town Centre, to the bridge on Manchester Road at Parrswood. There are other blog posts with updates on this already, but I thought an update might be a good

Now that the better weather is approaching and I’m not working quite as much as i have been, I’ll be out and about more. This will be a mixture of local and slightly further afield. This Friday just gone i decided that it was time to go back to The Peak District, after all it

This last week i have been having a great time looking after Charlie! Tracey was away in Croatia with her friends and i agreed to dog sit. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a week that’s very different than my usual weeks, yes i worked and Charlie was at day care,

This weekend it was my future daughter in laws 30th birthday and with Tracey being away in Croatia I was invited to have a birthday meal in Llandudno. So yesterday off I went to Llandudno armed with y Fuji X100V, I took this mainly to take pictures of Daisy and family but when it was

I’ve been researching recently, and I guess experimenting, with trying to find a more muted colour palette for my images. You might say retro even, although it’s hard for me ro talk about the filmic look, as I have no real comprehension of what the different film stocks did or made the images look like.

This weekend will be busy with a trip to Wembley to watch the Treble winners play Chelsea in the semi final of the FA Cup. That’s a full on day, couple that with a need to work until mid afternoon i decided to put my Fuji X100V to the test on the Manchester Tram system.

I decided this week to make a start on the April 2024 challenge in the OneLandscape group. That was to reflect the change of season from winter to spring in a single image. Easy I thought, just take images of bluebells! Wrong, not sure why but my part of Greater Manchester has not yet had

I’m not exactly sure who this is an exact quote from but I know it as the opening line to the song Design For Life by the mighty Manic Street Preachers. I’ve always thought that this was a great lyric, and for some reason I decided that this week I’d spend some time exploring the