Click on the first image below to see a timeline of the Robin’s story in the picture viewer. The Robin was a visitor to our garden who had a liking for the suet sticks I was putting out in a bird feeder. He liked them so much that he very readily took them from our[…]
One man’s journey to create a perfect blue cheese at home. I have documented my progress with making blue cheeses over a number of years. I generally only made one such cheese per year – we just don’t eat that much cheese. This meant my opportunities to practice were infrequent but hopefully you will see[…]
Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland and what we found on the beach in May 2008. Sandwood Bay is in the far North-West of Scotland, about 5 miles south of the most North-Westerly point in Great Britain at Cape Wrath. There is no road access but is an easy 4-mile walk from a small car park in[…]
A look around Sandwood Bay, Sutherland, Scotland When I wasn’t photographing washed up Spitfire engines I took some other pictures of the beautiful surroundings around Sandwood Bay. Sandwood bay is part of the Sandwood Estate which is owned and managed by the John Muir Trust. Looking south east upstream of the fresh water flowing out of Loch[…]
A look around the garden at Great Dixter, Sussex Great Dixter is a house and garden in Northiam, Sussex which was the home of Christopher Lloyd OBE, a celebrated garden designer and author. The garden is famous for its use of colour in its planting, often with, what appear to me, to be clashing colours.[…]
For the love of logs There is something about the form and function of log piles that I find fascinating. It’s the colours, the shapes, the textures, the life that inhabits them and the variety of all those things combined. A log pile and insect haven at RHS Gardens, Wisley, Surrey. Note the insect boreholes.[…]
A look around the old lead mine at Sheldon, Derbyshire. Lead mining has been carried out in the Derbyshire Peak District since Roman times and mining in the area of Magpie Mine has been around for 250 years. The mine opened and closed several times over the years due to fluctuations in the price of[…]
An installation by Antony Gormley at Crosby, near Liverpool The installation consists of 100 cast iron “bodyforms”, 500 metres apart, along 3 kilometres of the beach, between Waterloo and Blundelsands and 1 kilometre out to sea. Originally exhibited at Wattenmeer, Cuxhaven, Germany in 1997, Anthony Gormley’s idea was to “…test time and tide, stillness and[…]
After you have had a wander around Antony Gormley’s Another Place at Crosby, near Liverpool, you must take a walk north along the beach. Time your visit for low tide and you will be amazed by the amount and sheer quality of building rubble or debris that is spilling from the dunes onto the beach[…]
The Three Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales The area around the Three Peaks of Yorkshire is one of my favourite parts of the world and this is one of my favourite locations within it. Known simply, by me at least, as “The Boulder”. The boulder is an “erratic” left isolated on the limestone plateau[…]