Tag: black and white
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On the way to Sparty Lea
There are times when my partner Helen hates driving in the car with me. Basically because I have a habit of constantly staring out the window at what we’re passing by rather than the road in front of us!! I just can’t help it, every so often you see something which just makes you want to slam…
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Lost and Found?
It’s strange sometimes what you pick up and put in your pocket when your out in the hills, almost a year ago while walking near Cross Fell with my friend Paul Denham I came across this camera, and incredible as it may sound this is what the film contained….. Nahhh…. not really, I’ve just…
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Brave New World
Well I’m all for adventure and searching out the new, but sometimes it’s good to go with what you know, and not to overlook what is really just on your own doorstep. I must admit though most people aren’t so fortunate as to live on the edge of Teesdale, an area of outstanding natural beauty…
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In the Forests of Dunnerdale
Back at the beginning of March with the sense of spring in the air and warm days to come me and my friends Dave Branigan and Tom Sheard hatch a plan to meet in the Lake District for a walking and camping expedition. We picked a date and because none of us had ever been there…
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Finding the Snow..
I often get asked by people if I carry a camera with me where ever I go. Sadly the truth is sometimes I do, but not often enough!! On numerous occasions over the years I have been in some stunning places only to have forgotten a camera. One of the reasons why I don’t always carry…
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Twins Across the Moor..
A few weeks ago I was given a job to do……I had to travel deep into the Pennines to find some relics of the area’s lead mining history that once covered this regoin and take a picture…I know it’s hard a life, but a lovely couple visited the gallery and having viewed my work asked me to photograph two ancient, lonely chimneys that stand on…
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Behind the scenes.
Recently I’ve been asked for more details about how I create my photographs in the darkroom, and struck me that lately my blog has mostly been concentrating on my trips out and about taking pictures. But this is only really a small portion of the work that goes into making my final prints for sale in the gallery. In…
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Autumn has arrived……
Yad Moss to Cow Green, 6X9 Schnieder Rolflex with HP5+ in Caffenol CL Well autumn has finally arrived and the moorlands of the North Pennines are calling me. With an exciting new commission which has recently come in from Gallerina and some amazing new places to explore over the coming month I can’t wait to lose myself in the bleak fells of the…
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Fifty Nine Degrees North!
Sorry for the lack of recent activity on my blog. I’m pleased to say I haven’t just been setting here idly waiting for the autumn leaves to change before I took any new photographs, I have in fact been on a trip to distant lands. At the beginning of August I was lucky to take my family all the…
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Off to the Great Outdoors!!!
Well things have moved on with the DIY 10×8 camera, Ihave glued a large piece of wood to the bottom to create a stable base for mounting the camera on a tripod, and in an attempt to give the camera body a little more weather protection I covered it in a rather attractive black ash sticky black…
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