Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Just Messing
Why do we take photographs? Despite a lifetime of taking them, I am no closer to finding an answer. It’s partly about wanting to capture a moment or maybe share a visual thought, but that is only part of the answer. I was walking the dog yesterday and stopped to take a photograph. “What are you doing?” she asked as she sniffed a leftover slice of pizza near a rubbish bin. “Just messing”, I replied.
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Three For The Price Of One
I wanted something cheery for Friday the 13th – there is enough bad luck and misery going on around us at the moment without me adding to it. We also have a…
Nostalgia Noir
I can vaguely remember taking this photograph of Broad Street in Halifax from what must have been the top of the Bowling Alley in the late 1960s. It was back in the…
Mondrian’s Market
Black and white, light and dark: Bradford’s new Darley Street Market seemed to present photo opportunities with all the enthusiasm of an overstocked trader’s stall. There were loads of straight lines -…
Do Seagulls Screech In Cleethorpes?
Whenever I look back at the photos I took in Cleethorpes in the 1980s, I am reminded of the trauma caused by the gradual loss of my hearing during that…
Spring And All Souls
The panel which I featured a couple of days ago, showing Edward Akroyd laying the foundation stone for All Souls’ Church, is nothing compared to the rather grand bronze statue…
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