Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
A Modicum Of Luck
Another example of what can be achieved through a combination of an unsophisticated camera, a semi-skilled photographer and a modicum of luck. I took this forty years ago – in Doncaster, I think – but you couldn’t do it these days: the all-too-smart camera would produce a perfect exposure and a forgettable image.
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Breathless In Sheffield
The photograph is from more than forty years ago and shows the steps leading up to Fitzalan Square in Sheffield from Bakers Hill. In the early 1980s, I commuted by bus and…
News From Nowhere No. 3,230
It was twenty years ago today (well, in fact, it was twenty years ago yesterday, but that doesn’t have the same musical ring to it) that I uploaded the first post to…
That’s Life
Street scenes like this one – which I photographed in France half a century or so ago – are wonderful reflections of everyday life. Nobody is posing, and no Sunday…
Long Time, Long Jump
I’ve been taking photographs for a long time. Here’s one from sixty years ago, taken when I was still at school in Halifax. Some ran, some jumped, and others held…
A Photo Of Time
It was such a long time ago. I look at the photograph now and search for myself. I find the hint of a look, the corner of a dream, and…
