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Ten years on – my life in two photographs
The first portrait photograph of me was honest, I thought, no frills, just me as I was that day. sitting in front of the Georgian fireplace in my Lewes home. It was as true an image as photography can deliver.…
In 2020 I went to Pompeii and then to Troy
Troy myth and reality. At the beginning of 2020, I spent a week in Naples and visited the fateful ruins at Pompeii where you have to think about the disaster that befell the folks there in in the year 79…
Poetry and Dance coming together in my ‘virtual’ world.
Last week, as part of the ‘virtual’ exhibition, Remembering Blue, at my ‘virtual’ gallery, Glinka Gallery, I took part in a wonderful event with the ever-inventive ‘virtual’ dance company, The Sway & Dance Troupe. OK, what’s all this stuff about…
Instagram and I have had our first row. (We still love each other really.)
I’ve had a lot of fun with the new technologies that have revolutionised our lives over the last twenty years or so. I’ve recently been marking anniversaries (big ones) celebrating early online networking platforms and the strange virtual realities of…
Photography – at first it was just taking pictures, then I went digital and now I discover Instagram.
I have lived long enough now to have seen a transformation in the art of photography. Not that I’d call myself a photographer, but I been taking photographs since I was a child and I’ve always been entranced by…
Happy Thanksgiving USA
It’s Thanksgiving in the USA today so I thought I’d look through a few of my photographs taken there over the years – they are in no particular order and i’ll leave you to guess the locations. …
Lewes is looking good as October comes to a close.
I went on my regular walk round town yesterday and even though I’m always taking photographs here in Lewes, UK, I couldn’t resist capturing the late October light as the leaves begin to turn. I didn’t have my…
Ousing with February charm and mud – the River Ouse at Lewes.
One of the many advantages of living where I do, in Lewes, UK, is that I have open country less than a five minutes walk from my front door. The sunny February weather has been just too beautiful to…
A grey Monday in Lewes, UK.
It’s a grey day today here in my home town of Lewes, UK. It might not have the radiant colours of the Mediterranean but I rather like all those muted tones. If you have to have a Northern…