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 | Jun 26, 2019 | News, Peak District
Monday saw me out on a long walk from Monyash, across to Alsop and then looping back round and up the entire length of Lathkill Dale to get back to where I started. I wasn’t out for the photography per se, but I did take the big camera and tripod and was glad...
by alastair | Jun 25, 2019 | News, Peak District
With a week off work between contracts, I sallied forth in to the Peak District for a walk from Monyash to Alsop and then up Lathkill Dale (I still hurt from that 12mile walk!). On the way back home I thought I’d do a bit of a reccie of a field I’d heard...
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 8, 2019 | News, Peak District
With the end of 2018 nearly upon us (you’re probably reading this in 2019), my thoughts turn to what I’d like to cover in my blog posts in the New Year. I’m writing this as a bit of an aide memoir to myself more than anyone else, as I know from my...
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...