Posts about England
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Around Buttermere in the rain
A wind-swept, soggy, lovely walk around Buttermere in the English Lake District.
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Windows of Brantwood
Visiting the former home of John Ruskin, near Coniston.
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Latrigg from Applethwaite
An autumn ramble from our holiday rental to the top of the nearby Wainwright Fell above Keswick.
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Unendearing travel
Relying on others for our journey and a problematic experience stretching over two days is no way to begin a relaxing holiday.
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Geneva to Gatwick, 2009
Four shots from the window of an easyJet flight from Switzerland to England in 2009.
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Some photos are no good for Instagram
Instagram is where the audience is, but not every photo is suitable for Instagram. Highly-detailed images get lost amongst the pouting girls and gaudy sunsets. These photos deserve to be viewed larger.
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Romanticising the mundane
Everyone sees photos differently. Some simply see a place they know or blots on the landscape like electricity pylons and motorways, whilst others see a sunset or sunrise and the beauty of a single cloud, illuminated in a beautiful colour. The same photo can conjure up myriad memories for myriad people, whilst remaining completely boring […]
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Wall of sound
I remember seeing Oasis early in their career when they played a Sunday afternoon slot on the subsidiary NME stage at Glastonbury Festival in 1994. The indelible memory is the sheer wall of sound coming from the stage, even then, before they released Definitely Maybe. Two years later, they played two legendary sets at Knebworth. […]
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Great Asby Scar
Leaving the familiar fells and valleys of the Lake District to visit a less familiar part of northern England.
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2020 Retrospective – The Wettest Walk
Of all the walks Jo and I have undertaken, the path to Haystacks in the English Lake District seems to be the most prone to failure. The attempt we made in 2020 was no exception, although a sudden change in the weather led us to an alternative success.
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2020 Retrospective – Winter into Spring
The first part of my personal retrospective of a year which – to my eternal relief – wasn’t as bad on a personal level as it could easily have been.
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The huffy church warden
If you’re huffy, you get what you deserve.
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The correct angle at Fingle Bridge
Getting the best shot possible is all about chance, timing and consideration of the correct angle.
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2019 in review: up in the air
2019 was my second year with a drone, and I continued to experiment with the possibilities and travel to places with the specific aim of photographing them from the air.
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Moods of Seaton
One has to wonder what happened in the Devon seaside town of Seaton to bring it from a self-touted “artisanal haven” to its current dilapidated state.
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Scafell Pike from Wasdale
Oh, did I forget to mention? Jo and I walked up the biggest mountain in England in 2017.
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Sandbanks peninsula, Dorset
A small community on the British coast, near Poole in Dorset, is a prime piece of land. Measuring just eighty-eight metres at its narrowest point, the peninsula is amongst the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world, after cities like London and Tokyo.
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The Jurassic Coast
Mattia Bicchi smashes it out of the park again with this wonderful time-lapse video of the Jurassic Coast in the south of England.
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Christmas with an iPhone
We spent the Christmas and New Year period travelling to Scotland and back by road again.
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Pounding London’s streets
Photos from a wet night-time walk from Tate Modern to Southwark, via London Bridge and Tower Bridge, in 2014.
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My England
My England is green and pleasant. In my mind’s eye, the countryside is green and rolling, with occasional villages surrounding leafy, oaked cricket pitches or busy duck ponds. The lanes of my youth lead past scattering pheasants and floral hedgerows which echo the sound of a slightly ropey semi-classic British sports car. Towns are timbered and […]
