Dead space
These are the grey dead days poised between the colour of Christmas and the shrouded New Year. Withered leaves curl and fade while summer’s clinging buds remain hopeful of a final flowering. Squinting into the low bright sun I strain to capture the moment perfect decaying structures etched temporarily onto transient memory. As the late…
Advent Blog: catch up 4th – 10th December
Oh dear I have failed big time with an advent post everyday! Not sure where the last week has gone and have no real excuses. Luckily I have been taking photos on my phone and with the real camera. The real highlight of the week has been the amazing skies – both sunrise and sunset.…
Advent Blog: 3rd December
Head over to 2up Photography for today’s advent post which includes a recipe for home made mincemeat!
Advent Blog: 3rd December
On the first of December you are allowed to make the first mince pies and sausage rolls of the festive season, so on Sunday I rustled these little beauties up. They were particularly delicious with a glass of cava – it was Geoff’s birthday on Friday and mine yesterday so it seemed like a good…
Advent Blog: 2nd December
It’s my birthday! First thing I was treated to a magnificent pink sunrise followed by a beautiful walk in the mist with the sun just breaking through. I’ve been doing my morning walks for over two years now and never tire of plodding the same lanes – there is always something different to see and…
Advent Blog 2013: 1st December
This is the third year of my virtual advent calendar – no cheap chocolate or pictures of boy bands here – just random photos of our life in a “sometimes sleepy” Norfolk village taken in the run up to Christmas. Late this morning my daughter and I went for a walk in the sunshine. It…
Advent Blog: 1st December
I’m posting every day for advent this year but rather that duplicate content on my business and personal sites I’m doing alternate days on each – so for day 1 head across to 2upphotography!
The big exit: A short story for Elsie
Twenty years ago today my nanny Elsie Maud Harris passed away peacefully at the age of 89. She was a great character full of life and great stories. I wrote this story a few years after she died and I’d sort of forgotten about it but have been sorting through my old files this week…
Greg James, Henry Moore and 50 years of the UEA
Back in September, when the sun was still shining and Christmas was just a distant twinkle, I went along to the UEA for their 50th anniversary celebrations. It was a glorious day and the campus was full of visitors of all ages taking part in a huge range of activities. With me on the visit…
Selfies!
So the Oxford dictionary have announced today that the word of the year is selfie. In case you’ve been living in a nice cave away from our social media frenzied world it is listed as: selfie noun, informal (also selfy; plural selfies) a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam…
International food photography day
I have just discovered via Twitter that it is International Food Photography Day. If you read my Blog you’ll know I’m very partial to snapping and cooking at the same time (it drives my family mad) So I’ve had a quick delve into the archives and pulled out some random foody shots. It made me…
Texture Tuesday
In spite of good intentions at the weekend I failed miserably to get out in the garden to do the Big Autumn Tidy Up that I’ve been planning. As a result it is still a rather over grown and wilting mess. Sadly I have also neglected the few raspberry canes that I have on the…
Texture Tuesday: the last of the summer chives
It’s ages since I did a texture Tuesday (and a fair while since I last blogged) but I was inspired at lunchtime by these chives which I picked from our very sad and bedraggled looking herb garden. The camera was already in the kitchen as I was talking pictures of the rock cakes that I…
Puddled thinking
On wet dull days I find myself looking down for pictures. This morning in the aftermath of the heavy rain that we had yesterday the roads were wet and covered in leaves and detritus. As you may have spotted I love taking photos of puddles and the reflections in them. There is a very powerful…
Lovely Lincoln!
Saturday 21st September was a very significant day for our family as it was the day that our son Tom left home for University. We all of course had very mixed feelings – excited and sad at the same time (and maybe a little relieved that we would not have to keep banging on the…