travel – Photographs with Words

Gimme Shelter: Number 11

Windlestone Hall was the birthplace of the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who presided over the hugely significant Suez Crisis, which symbolised Great Britain’s end as major world power. […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 10

This is near the site of the former Winterton Psychiatric Hospital and Sedgefield General Hospital, both long since closed and demolished.

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The Number of the Beast

Well, I have developed another roll of Tri-X from the South Downs walk back in May. I am going through the negatives and scanning choice frames. Then I will be […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 9

The only photo I took with a digital camera during a fantastic camping weekend over the May bank holiday in glorious North Yorkshire

Automatic for the People

Automatic for the People: Nikon TW Zoom

The second post in a series about ‘classic’ point and shoot auto focus film cameras I had no intention of buying an auto focus compact camera with a zoom […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 8

Nature seems to be getting the better of this one!

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Gimme Shelter: Number 7

Just across the road from Number 6!

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Gimme Shelter: Number 6

Additional shelter provided by a tree, particularly in Spring and Summer. It looks like it may one have had window glass.

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Gimme Shelter: Number 5

Are you getting the theme of this shelter? This is near Castle Eden.

Automatic for the People

Automatic for the People: Introduction

A new series about ‘classic’ point and shoot auto focus film cameras The photographs of my ‘Edge of Town’ project, which I started some weeks before this blog, are taken […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 4

I love the patina on the brick and the repair right in the middle, but most of all I like the hotchpotch of field boundaries; wood, wire and hedge.

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Gimme Shelter: Number 3

I pass this one every day on the drive to work. Depending on what time I pass, I do see school kids waiting for a bus here occasionally. I don’t […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 2

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word In a world of steel-eyed death, […]

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Gimme Shelter: Number 1

Oh, a storm is threat’ning My very life today If I don’t get some shelter Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away – Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones Back, by popular […]

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Edge of Town Project

I have been photographing the coast around Hartlepool for as long as I have lived here, both using a traditional landscape photographer’s approach with a camera on a tripod during […]

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Driving Home

Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling Down, down, down, down — Don’t You Forget About Me: Simple Minds I travelled the 20 odd miles back to my home town of […]