Over the recent holiday period I have been taking my own advice and exploring my backyard. This included spending a great day out in Liverpool which is a former European city of culture. Great Britain is as great as the name suggests. The pleasant surprise is that doorstep exploration and rediscovering local places can be [...]
Tag Archives: Manchester
Colours of Christmas – Tis the Season of Celebration
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…… maybe it is the child in me but I really enjoy the festive season. When I was child sized (it’s been said I still am) it was all about waiting for the big day and opening presents, Christmas dinner and new films on the television. Since I [...]
Winter in Manchester – Doorstep Surprises
Is there anybody that doesn’t love a pleasant surprise? An early morning start in the winter landscape of suburban Manchester recently provided some unexpectedly pleasing photographic surprises. The forecast had been for extremely low temperatures and a morning ground frost so an early visit to the local woods seemed a worthwhile prospect. The parked cars [...]
Postcards from Autumn; chilly tales from a Manchester riverbank
Taking a step out into the biting chill of an early morning in autumnal Manchester, the light was just beginning to win its eternal battle with night. My steamy breath freezing instantly, producing continuous vapour trails like a kettle on the boil. The parked cars were dusted in frost, it appeared as if the stars [...]
Postcards from Crete, Calm before the Storm
Having set off from a sunny autumnal Manchester arriving later on the Greek island of Crete when anticipating plenty of sun in the middle of a rain storm was not a good omen. As the plane touched down in Heraklion the skies were menacingly dark, rivulets of rain streamed down the windows and it appeared [...]
Mabon in Manchester – The Post Nobody will Read
Yesterday was Mabon, the autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, as the weather was fair it seemed appropriate to get out with the camera and capture some scenes of autumn in Manchester. To keep the post relevant it needs to be published quickly, meaning posting on Sunday, which apparently contravenes traditional publishing advice. The reason; [...]
Harbouring a love of Ports – Photo Essay
“A ship is safe at harbor, but that is not what ships are for.” William Shedd The problem with the weekly twitter photo sharing phenomenon @FriFotos is that the topics chosen are always great. Often when looking through images only expecting to find one or two, numerous suitable pictures then spring out, signalling the need [...]
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