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Hunting the Bumps on Farthing Hill

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Guthlac

First off some housekeeping:   This is the second post on the HS2 line through Measham and I have already broken the rule I set myself – a number of these images don’t look like Kodachrome 64 for two reasons: … Continue reading →

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View from the exercise bike

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Guthlac

Congratulation to Nico Rosberg…a worthy world champion.   What the next season may bring is a story for another day.  As I was finishing a session on my exercise bike whilst watching the excellent ELO at Hyde Park    I … Continue reading →

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HS2 – Goodbye to Farthing Hill

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Guthlac

As you get older every now and then you become aware that perhaps there are less days ahead of you than are behind you.  Usually such thoughts can be brushed aside without too much concern.   Last week was one … Continue reading →

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Some say you’ll go to purgatory….

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Guthlac

Perhaps there is a special place in hell for photographers who play around with reality in their images – well if that is so then it is going to be very full indeed.   A few years ago when I … Continue reading →

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Under the shadows

Posted on November 18, 2016 by Guthlac

One of the things you tend to forget about London is that you have to walk an awful lot.    Yes you could take a Taxi but you would miss so much.   Yesterday, my friend David and I spent … Continue reading →

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Charnwood… a final pass thro…

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Guthlac

I am getting towards the final phase of preparing my book on the Playground of the Midlands project and I thought I would have one final look at the images I captured to see if there were any others I … Continue reading →

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Walking the Dog

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Guthlac

There is something about a park on Sunday morning, especially on a lovely late autumn day, that is quite magical.   The life of the city is out promenading catching a few rays whilst they can before the winter coats … Continue reading →

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Hubris

Posted on November 13, 2016 by Guthlac

The city of Leicester has the graves of two men who fell foul of ambition and hubris and between them did more to usher in the modern world in which we live – although neither would have known this as … Continue reading →

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Dusseldorf…I

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Guthlac

Now that all that nonsense is over with back to the real world and the result of a final pass through the images I captured the other day in Victoria Park.

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Listening to John Williams

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Guthlac

Yesterday I had an outbreak of ‘Fresher’s Flu’ which of course is nonsense for a number of reasons which those who know me well will be able to quickly identify.   So in an effort to clear away the damaging … Continue reading →

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