by alastair | Jul 2, 2019 | Cornwall, Lake District, News, North Wales, Northumberland, Outer Hebrides, Peak District, Scotland, Venice, Yorkshire
I’m talking again, this time at the Patchings Arts Festival in Nottingham. I’ll be talking about photographic project work and keeping it local in my talk entitled “Close to Home”. You can find out more about timings and the event by visting...
by alastair | Apr 23, 2019 | Cornwall, News, Outer Hebrides
In my previous blog post, I touched upon the freedom and creativity that walking with a camera in your hand brings about versus keeping it packed away in your rucksac waiting for the right shot to present itself. On the flipside, there is the time, space and silence...
by alastair | Jan 22, 2019 | Lake District, News, North Wales, Northumberland, Outer Hebrides, Peak District, Scotland, Yorkshire
It has taken some time to get to this point. Always full of good intention, quality procrastination has been adept at getting in the way of my writing of this post. In previous posts (here and here), I have covered off my two campervans Diggy and Vivi; particularly...
by alastair | Jan 15, 2019 | News, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
A bit like in last year’s photobook review, when I said that I felt I hadn’t bought that many, I felt the same this year. Then I piled all my photography books up when sitting down to look back over them during the Christmas holidays and thought “Oh...
by alastair | Dec 7, 2018 | Lake District, News, Outer Hebrides, Peak District, Scotland
I’ve said before that I own a wonderful Hasslebald X Pan panoramic film camera, but it seldom gets an outing. Though I have to say I am warming slowly but surely up to using it again – but definitely going down the route of getting someone else to do all...
by alastair | Sep 9, 2018 | Lake District, News, North Wales, Northumberland, Outer Hebrides, Peak District, Scotland, Yorkshire
In my previous post, I discussed campervanning and in particular my first camper van “Diggy” the Mazda Bongo and “Vivi” the Vauxhall Vivaro, which came along last year to replace the aging and somewhat smaller (when your family is growing up) “Diggy”. Like the last...
