Due in part to having started Project 365 (a photo a day for a year), I’ve been spending a bit of time pottering about with my macro lens recently. I like this time of year in the garden as you don’t have to do any hard work (serious gardeners may disagree) and you slowly start […]Read Post ›
The new year has begun and with it my Project 365 challenge. My goal is to post a photo a day for every day of the year. The rules/parameters I have set myself are as follows: The photo must be taken on the day that it is posted, no storing up photos to last a […]Read Post ›
This last of my Paris posts looks at some quirky details of art/graffiti found around Montmartre as well as a great feature of the cafe in the Musée d’Orsay. The first image is a fading shop sign I spotted by the Abbesses metro station. The clown just looks so forlorn with its peeling paint and […]Read Post ›
Well, there’s good news and bad on the camera front. The bad news is it is not worth repairing, the good is it’s my birthday next month and Mum and Dad have offered to buy me a whizzy new camera. Cue hours of research on the new Canon models. Another piece of good news is […]Read Post ›
We were down in Sussex staying with my parents last week and they took us to a wonderful garden, The Sussex Prairie Garden. It’s one of those heart-warming sorts of places, a dreamy wild prairie garden, created by local people who are passionate about plants and know how to use them to great effect. Before […]Read Post ›
Wandering around Dungeness last week, I was struck by the different textures and unusual colours that peeling, fading paint, rust and verdigris create as well as the beautiful lines you see on the old wooden boats. These are some images looking at colour and texture.
The Sobbing Kailyard 