Waiting
A bit of a different post today. I took this picture on Friday while I was shooting a wedding at the Assembly House in Norwich. As I was rushing to the front door of the building to wait for the arrival of the Bride I spotted this old lady waiting for a taxi. She seemed…
Waning Harvest moon
The waning moon over our house A week ago we had a harvest moon – that is the full moon closest to the Autumn equinox. Although I didn’t manage to photograph it then, the waning harvest moon was very clear a couple of days ago on my morning walk.
Texture Tuesday: The Fairy Fair
I’ve come about these photos by a convoluted route. This weekend our village had a lovely Heritage Festival – which included a local Norfolk music group called Rig a Jig Jig. I kept looking at the fiddler (as you do!) and couldn’t help thinking that I’d seen him before. Finally it came to me –…
Walking pixels: 27 September
Strange light and skies this morning…
My convolvulus is rampant!
“That garden’s a mess!” muttered my Dad as he gazed out of our kitchen window on Sunday afternoon. He was right of course – as usual my early spring enthusiasm for planting, growing and tending is now just a dim and distant memory. At the beginning of the summer – after watching an episode of…
A year of walking pixels
As well as being my daughters birthday the 16th September was also the first anniversary of my morning walking campaign. I won’t pretend that I have walked every morning for the whole year but as a general rule I’ve managed at least four or five days a week. As I said in my first Blog…
A teenager at last!
It seems like my daughter Reya has been a tweenager for ever! But yesterday we finally reached that great milestone of full teendom when Reya turned 13 (and finally got her own Facebook account!) It was a pretty full on weekend. I took her and some friends shopping in Norwich and let them get on…
Shutters, châteaux and sunshine
As I type the wind is howling outside the window and the rain is lashing down – a far cry the glorious weekend that has just passed and our lovely last minute, end of August holiday in France. The Pixel Chef Blog has been more than a little neglected over the summer – we have…
Shutters, signs and Châteaux – 2up takes a holiday!
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been away in France – our first proper family holiday for five years! As is usual with us, we left things until the very last minute and booked everything in just under 14 days! We were so lucky to find a beautiful gite called Grand Houx to rent…
Beauty in decay
I was listening to a piece on Radio 4 this morning about photographer Bob Reinhardt who has dedicated years of his life to photographing Scottish graveyards and who has just opened an exhibition in Edinburgh Central Library. Eager for more information I did a quick Google to find out more about the exhibition and his…
London adventures with my phone!
Phew it’s the end of a very busy week which saw me working in London for three days! I had a hectic schedule carrying out interviews at a well known Business School for some writing work 2up is doing for another agency. I was based in the heart of one of the busiest tourist centres…
The story of a picture…
The last working week has been very “image heavy” with the Norfolk Show and a wedding happening all with in four days. Getting to grips with sorting and editing hundreds (or even thousands of photos) is sometimes very daunting – especially, as with the Norfolk Show, I was also editing shots from two other photographers. …
Summer rain
During the winter months of my early morning walking campaign I visualised what it would be like in the summer tramping the country lanes in shorts and a T shirt while soaking up the early morning sunshine. Well we have had a few glorious mornings like that, but mostly I have been plodding through the…
Hello dolly!
What is it about old dolls – they just look so scary. I snapped these little beauties on my mobile at Watton Sale rooms our local auction house. I don’t think I’ll be putting in a bid for any of them though!
Celebration cup cakes
Our lovely neighbours have just had their second baby – a sweet little boy. So my daughter made them some cup cakes to celebrate! We presented them on a vintage cake stand which was one of my recent auction finds!