Photos of buildings, landscapes and skies taken during 40-odd years of wandering abroad in Britain
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Northumbrian Skies
A weather-filled holiday on the Northumbrian coast nearly a quarter of a century ago. I can't easily caption them as I don't really have a clue where they are. I seem to have mislaid my rough notes...
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Swansea
Haven't spent as much time in Swansea as in Aberystwyth or Cardiff, where friends have lived for some 40 years, but I visited a few times in the ’90s and was often blessed with a nice day for snaps.
You can't miss with light, water and rigging |
I love the way the ruined castle and the modern tower are jammed together by the foreshortening magic of a long lens. |
looking across the sea to the Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula. |
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Brighton Seafront (1)
The sun shines off the sea pretty much all day in Brighton, making for some fine contre-jour shots as well as underlighting the beach and surroundings beautifully |
The gradual destruction of the West Pier and the proliferation of buildings on the Palace Pier provide a theme running through a quarter century of pics of Brighton |
From the end of the pier, with a telephoto |
Hove bandstand |
Palace Pier entry |
Jim's beat as a lifeguard took in the beaches between the Banjo groyne and the Marina |
This man is working. What's the best job you ever had? |
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
The Lea at Ware
The Granger family moved from Tottenham to Ware, Hertfordshire, at the end of 1964. It was only 20 miles away, but it was very much another world, very rural and almost deathly quiet after London. I carried on going back to Tottenham for school, and spent most of the weekends in London, too, being a teenager. In 1966, I went off to university in Canterbury and never went back to Ware to live. I didn't live in it long enough to love it, but I came to appreciate it more as a visitor.
The River Lea runs through the town from west to east, before it makes its decisive turn south to the Thames
The River Lea runs through the town from west to east, before it makes its decisive turn south to the Thames
Over the years the ruined gazebos were refurbished and are now a major feature of the town |
The gazebo with the white horse weathervane from the second picture is triumphantly restored to full galloping order |
The lock-keeper's cottage on a misty morning, shot with a long lens from the bridge |
Cheating a bit: my grandad took this, in 1965. That's me on the footbridge, looming over mum and dad. |
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
An introduction
For reasons too time-consuming to mention here, I've never owned a passport or a driving licence, but I have spent a great deal of time walking, hitching and training all over the UK, as well as navigating for willing drivers, and making a habit of taking a camera with me virtually whenever I left the house. Although later posts will, perhaps, concentrate on particular areas and events, this one contains a scattering across three countries and four decades.
Gladstone Park, north-west London |
Cirencester |
south-west Scotland |
Weston-super-Mare |
Gorilla tor, Dartmoor |
Alum Bay, IOW, from Freshwater Down |
Solway Firth |
Severn at Bewdley |
Swansea |
Coryton Cove, Dawlish |
The Marina, Clevedon |
Millennium Square, Bristol |
Aberystwyth from Constitution Hill |
Brighton beach, looking West |
Grand Union Canal, Trellick Tower and Westway, north-west London |
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