A collection of colourful street portrait shots from this year’s Glastonbury Frost Fair. The Frost Fair was started in 2002/3 by Alan Gloak and his late sister Jill with just 12 stalls. This year it was the biggest I have […]
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South Molton has been a country market town since the Middle Ages, trade being built around sheep, cattle, wool and leather. Weaving and cloth manufacture are long gone but, this being sheep country, the Livestock market is still thriving (see post of […]
I suppose that I was getting tired of conventional landscape photography. Even when the scene in front of me was enticing, the light good and the composition and technical aspects of the shot were right, I was finding the end […]
We all know that the scene that comes in through the eye and the one in our mind’s eye are not the same. We also know that both are very different to what the camera records. What we see/record and […]
The South Molton Livestock Market is the largest slaughter sheep market in South West England and was established over 200 years ago. The market is run by Stags. I arranged a visit with the auctioneer and Head of Livestock Sales at […]
Cold northerly winds but beautiful skies on the North Devon coast during the last few days of October . Above is Barricane Beach between Woolacombe and Mortehoe. Below are some shots from Woolacombe beach. It was blowing a gale from […]
The Isle of Purbeck and the Jurassic Coast has some of the most magical landscapes in the UK. For most of last week, while parts of the west coast of England and Wales was battered by Storm Callum, it bathed […]
After nearly three weeks of fantastic weather our last four days in Vancouver were very wet but we put on the wet gear, borrowed umbrellas and got about the city anyway. The City has three main waterfronts. To the north […]
There is no rail line between Banff and Jasper but there is a great bus tour along the Icefields Parkway Highway stopping off at key points of interest. The first important stop was Lake Louise. The smoke from the 700 […]
Sue and I boarded the Rocky Mountaineer in Vancouver on route, over two days, to Kamploops and Banff. Our onward journey to Jasper was by road coach along the Icefields Parkway Highway (go to page). From Jasper we again travelled, […]
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