Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Times Certainly Change
Getting somewhat annoyed the other day by some toxic pronouncement by a global potentate, I banged my fist down on my desk, and my smartwatch informed me that it looked as if I had taken a fall and that it would send for an emergency ambulance. Just think, sixty years ago I would have had to catch a bus to Halifax and find some cast-iron street hydrant in order to achieve the same ends. Times certainly change.
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Sheffield Shapes
I took the photograph back in the early 1980s, and I messed around with it early yesterday. It snowed a lot back in the early ’80s, and I wandered up and down…
Street Photography
These days, this photograph would come under the heading of “Street Photography”. When I took it over half a century ago, it came under the heading of “Using The Last Few Shots…
Treasured Map
My brother contacted me from the other side of the world yesterday to suggest that my “monumental sculpture” photo was not taken in Sowerby Bridge. I have since been able…
Monumental Sculpture
One should be able to nominate buildings as items of monumental sculpture, thus ensuring their preservation not for what they contain, but simply for the way they look, the shape…
On The Slopes
Photography was made for groups. Get a group together – be it a group of friends, family, fellow workers, or ten-pin bowlers – and one of the first reactions is…
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