Chris Pratt Photography
What’s to do in Barcelona in February..? Well, like any world city, lots – there’s the football, if you can get a ticket (top of La Liga again); all the Gaudi architecture, including the Sagrada Familia – the “new” cathedral – where the builders have already been on-site for 141 years; February isn’t exactly beach […]
I don’t know what she’s seen, she was investigating the snowdrops a minute ago – but there’s definitely something.
I’ve used that heading for this same place before but this time it’s definitely winter and there isn’t very much sun – just 50mph wind and rain to go with it. So watching the weather forecast and taking my chances with a break in the cloud is the only option; and just occasionally I get […]
Mid-December and surf’s up in Scarborough. The air temperature is zero degrees but the water is a balmy 9.5 – swimming makes sense then. There are plenty of wetsuit-clad Yorkshire folk bobbing around on surf boards, waiting for the perfect (any) wave and some hardy paddle boarders – but she’s the only pup in the […]
There’s a lot to be said for sitting around in bars and cafes – there’s a drink and something to eat in front of you and you are out of the cold (or out of the heat in this instance) – and when my camera comes out I’m invisible, or at least tolerated. Most importantly, […]
Chicago, whether your interest is jazz or the blues, football (the sort that takes three hours for sixty minutes of play), baseball, small independent craft breweries, the shopping, the restaurants & bars or hanging out by the lake shore – apparently there are even museums and art galleries; the evocative and defining thing about Chicago […]
I’d been watching this field as the wheat grew, there’s a good picture here, the dog peering out above the growing, gently waving crop. But in the harsh dry summer they have harvested early – climate change I guess.
It’s pretty difficult to spend time in Lisbon and not notice the trams, there are sleek modern ones now but Line 28 takes all the attention – inaugurated in 1914 and still running vintage trams from the 1930s. There is method in this, the route climbs the city’s hills through narrow streets and the oldies […]
After days walking in the Picos de Europa, a night out in Leon – beer and tapas – was very welcome. Leon is a small and little known city but boasts stunning historical architecture, as well as its energetic night time scene.
A row of beach huts like this makes a great photo frame; but working with a hyper-active young dog, that would much prefer to be digging in the sand, makes life a challenge – especially when the photographer is working with not only a manual focus lens but also razor-thin depth of field. Patience is […]
