laundrette (laundromat), Florida Keys style
I was on a road trip through the Florida Keys with my daughter and my mother. After almost a week, we were in need of some clean clothes. We were directed to a laundrette off the Overseas Highway,...
View Articlephoto of the week: a peach of a photo
Welcome to the South. This week’s photograph was taken on a recent brief trip to the Southern states of North and South Carolina and Georgia. This giant peach was made famous when it was featured in an...
View Articlephoto of the week: New England farmhouse
I am back in New England visiting family, friends and old haunts. This week’s photo was taken in an old farmhouse that is one of my favourite places to be. It holds memories stretching back to my...
View Articlephoto of the week: watery tricks
I am spending my holiday on Cape Cod visiting my old favourite places, both watery and sandy. I love watching the tricks sunlight plays along the surface and through the depths of water. More...
View Articlephoto of the week: beach shrouded in fog
As my elderly mother and I headed for an early morning walk today, we were surprised to find the beach shrouded in thick fog, since we had left a sunny, ordinary world behind us back at home. Although...
View Articlephoto of the week: Wells Cathedral detail
This week’s photograph comes from Wells Cathedral in Somerset. This is Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury (1329-1363), so loved by pilgrims that they rubbed away his nose and covered him with 17th and...
View Articlephoto of the week: golden California hills
I returned to Northern California recently after many years away and found myself mesmerised by the light and the dramatic beauty of the area. When I lived in San Francisco in my mid-twenties and...
View Articlephoto of the week: Day of the Dead
If you are not used to Day of the Dead symbolism, it can be quite startling. Throughout Mexico, and in Mexican neighbourhoods around the world, the skeletons that appear (in all guises and doing any...
View Articlephoto of the week: happy new year!
Photo of the week: I felt we needed a bright and breezy photograph to start the year off right and Florida can do that in bucket-loads. I am sure I could find some metaphor about clean fresh...
View Articlephoto of the week: the boats of Lindisfarne
Photo of the week: A recent trip to Northumbria took us to Lindisfarne, an island joined to the mainland at low tide by a narrow causeway. On the beach of this remote and barren place was an...
View Articlephoto of the week: a rainy Southend Pier, Essex
I give you a moody shot for this week’s photo. It was taken while travelling the length of the longest pleasure pier in the world, which happens to be in Southend, Essex. This elevated platform extends...
View ArticleHappy new year!
Happy New Year! I felt we needed a bright and breezy photograph to start the year off right and Florida can do that in bucket-loads. I am sure I could find some metaphor about clean fresh beginnings,...
View ArticleThe boats of Lindisfarne
The boats of Lindisfarne A recent trip to Northumbria took us to Lindisfarne, an island joined to the mainland at low tide by a narrow causeway. On the beach of this remote and barren place was an...
View ArticleA rainy Southend Pier, Essex
A rainy Southend Pier, Essex I give you a moody shot for this week’s photo. It was taken while travelling the length of the longest pleasure pier in the world, which happens to be in Southend, Essex....
View ArticleGolden California hills
Golden California hills I returned to Northern California recently after many years away and found myself mesmerised by the light and the dramatic beauty of the area. When I lived in San Francisco in...
View ArticleDay of the Dead
Day of the Dead If you are not used to Day of the Dead symbolism, it can be quite startling. Throughout Mexico, and in Mexican neighbourhoods around the world, the skeletons that appear (in all guises...
View ArticleA city bursting with colour and pattern
A city bursting with colour and pattern I was in Lisbon for a few days recently. Every summer of my childhood I spent a month in a small town nearby so I know the area very well, but it had been over...
View ArticleManhattan Bridge at sunset
Manhattan Bridge at sunset I have just come back from a big family gathering in Boston and a brief trip to New York where we spent the day walking for miles around the city. It was exhilarating,...
View ArticleThe carousel that made people happy
The carousel that made people happy Once upon a time there was an amusement park on the edge of a beautiful lake where people came to be happy. They arrived from far and wide to ride the roller...
View ArticleHow an anchor becomes a whale
How an anchor becomes a whale As I continued to experiment with what had become my new photographic toy – the cyanotype process – I realised it gave me a way to work with photos in my archive that I...
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