Category Archives: Photography

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Thinkin’ Indy

Oh the time when there was nothing like high res inkjets – instead there was very cheap printing…so this inspired me to take another look at some recent images.  Interesting the effect seems to work on certain types of images

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Also and Always

Just a few images from my walk around the Yorkshire Sculpture Park the other day.  Some great art and yet again found the outer limits of what the iPhone, in my hands, can do.  So win win.

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Face in the Crowd

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Some flowers in your hair

Another unseasonably warm spring day – perhaps this is going to be the way of things to come?   If this is the case then I don’t like to think what the temperatures much further south are going to get. … Continue reading

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If you’re passing

If you get the chance then go and see the Tony Cragg exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – it is well worth the visit.  I knew nothing about the artist until I went and now I know a great … Continue reading

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It’s the image that counts

This morning over my breakfast cereals I read an interesting piece about the decline in innovation in new cameras.  In short the article argued that camera manufacturers weren’t giving the consumer reasons to replace their equipment on a regular basis. … Continue reading

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Visiting Mr McGregor’s garden

One of the enduring impressions I get when wondering around the gardens of Calke Abbey is that I am in a recreation of the garden out of Peter Rabbit.  Yesterday was not an exception.  The sun was shining, the chill … Continue reading

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Walkin’ in south Leicestershire

Spring is gathering a pace…I fear it is just a little too unseasonal at the moment but that is not going to stop me enjoying this early spring sun and a little warmth.  Today I was out and about around … Continue reading

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Walkin’ in Derby

It’s back!   Is it really four years since I last went to the Format Photography Festival at Derby?   Well yes and like the last time I came it is a rum bag of stuff.   One of this … Continue reading

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Cardinal Exchange

The Cardinal Exchange building is, in my view, the ugliest building in the city of Leicester.   It was built in the early 1970’s by the then GPO Telephone and used to house one of the national telephone exchanges.  It … Continue reading

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