Today was the day of the book binding course with Angela James at the Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton. I had been looking forward to this for a while now and really hoping that it would go ahead as the other one I had booked on in Newcastle was cancelled as I was the only …
Starting Out in Zines
It’s taken me years playing about with formats and styles and still I’ve never really come to a decision on how I wanted to show my work, but lockdown has given me a chance to join in with a few workshops and groups and one of them was called The Lockdown Zine Collective where a …
Palace Hub Gallery in Redcar
After a lot of thought I finally decided to submit some of my photographic work to the Palace Hub Gallery in Redcar to see if I could get some exhibited. The series was photographs of Redcar beach on a wintery dawn, which gave a really lovely blue cast to the sky. I’ve had three accepted …
Skinningrove
I was in Skinningrove for a course quite a while back and took the opportunity to take some photographs as it was quite misty making the area look quite sinister and I just don’t get to Skinningrove that often as it’s off the beaten track (unless of course you’re on the Cleveland Way). There is …
September 2021 Photo of the Month
I’ve set up a new Patreon tier where you can get a limited edition print each month. With this tier you receive all the benefits of the other tiers plus a photo of the month delivered to you as long as you’re a Patreon. Each month I’ll choose an image and you will receive a …
Books for October 2021…
and a round-up of what I did in August. August hasn’t been a total bust for book reading but nowhere near as good as July, stalling a bit at the end of the month. Even with this it has been a big hitter for 5-star reads, ‘Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep‘, ‘Cecily‘, …
Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
Philip Reeve. David Fickling Books. (288p) ISBN 9781788452373 A book I’d requested through work as I’m a huge fan of Mortal Engines (plus Philip Reeve’s other works). This latest book is a magnificent middle grade fantasy adventure following Utterly Dark, the ward of The Watcher of Wildsea. When her ward drowns it sets a chain …
Micro 4/3 Camera
After owning a Full Frame Canon (5D Mk II) for a while, I felt that I was using my iPhone more often than not to take photos as the Canon was too heavy and cumbersome for me to carry around all the time. A few years ago I owned a Panasonic GF1 (the image above …