Between lockdowns I needed a break; and desperately wanted to use a camera. With the bewildering quarantine rules and endless travel restrictions the decision was sensible shoes and a big coat – stay in the UK. The seaside at Southwold on the Suffolk heritage coast. It’s a charming small town, dominated by Adnams Brewery and […]
I was going to walk it in April but, again, we all know what happened to April. So from 28 September to 14 October we walked the 268 miles of the Pennine Way – from Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, just over the border into Scotland. Each day was a mixture […]
It’s the Goodwood Road Racing Club Spring Sprint – although renamed the Summer Sprint, we all know what happened to April… On the starting line is a Maserati Typo 61, as raced by factory driver Stirling Moss and known as the Maserati Birdcage, after its space frame construction of two hundred small-section tubes. This gave […]
I’m back at Poppymead Gundogs – it’s been a dogs’ week… This is Aspen, a young Labrador, fox red, just twelve weeks old and I think these cornflowers are her first retrieve – they start them young at Poppymead.
It’s a scheduled water training evening – for dogs and owners – at Poppymead Gundogs. Retrieving from in and across the River Kennet in rural West Berkshire. Some dogs, it’s fair to say, are more practiced than others but under the expert eye of Andrew Gray they will all get up to speed – sooner […]
There are many things to be expected in the Lake District in August – rain, obviously, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many lakes, and low cloud obscuring the drama of the high mountains; but not generally a wholly rebuilt 1928 Austin 7, perched on a low bluff overlooking Wastwater, the deepest and most remote lake […]
I did a bit of a lesson on selective focus (socially distanced) and this dog came along – not as placid a subject as one might wish for but he’s a good looking fella (the dog) and the light was pretty much perfect…
Into the fourth week of lockdown, I was supposed to be in Barcelona last weekend but Spain didn’t want me and all things considered I didn’t really want to go. So, the back garden it is – at least we have a big one, with trees and flowers and stuff. This is a Poet’s Narcissus […]
London, pretty much closed for business, it’s Oxford Street, Jim, but not as we know it. And as it turns out, the day of the Covid-19 lock-down – maybe this image will become famous…? I like the irony of the road markings, unless the Mayor had them painted the night before.
This is the second time I’ve seen a busker with a harp, the first time was in Buenos Aires – on a train, which I thought was a pretty good effort. This guy was in the Marais in Paris, he was getting some passing trade but the young lad on the scooter was particularly entranced […]