Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
In The Early Morning Rain
This photograph of mine, taken a good few years ago, shows the Lisbon monument commemorating Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral’s first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic in 1922. I particularly like the pigeon perched at the end of the wing, hitching a lift. I’m reminded of the Gordon Lightfoot lyric: “You can’t jump a jet plane / Like you can a freight train.” Says who?
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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…
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…
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…
