This is a small detail from a photo I took on Market Street, Halifax almost sixty years ago. The main photo is a colourful mixture of social history and nostalgia. However interesting the old shops and ancient cars are, my eye is always drawn to the man walking along the street - a mere detail … Continue reading A Yorkshire Face
Author: Alan Burnett
Birds And Buildings
BIRDS AND BUILDINGS Halifax Building, Trinity Road, Halifax. 2018 Halifax has its fair share of Gothic arches and Victorian pediments and your senses can be well and truly stuffed. Occasionally, however, you need an architectural palette-cleanser, something to sharpen your senses
Looking Out On Edinburgh
Photography always works best when its a two-stage process. Back in the old days you would take photos and then days or weeks later rediscover the images after the film was processed. These days, with digital images, it is often best to return to images months or years after they were taken. This picture was … Continue reading Looking Out On Edinburgh
Bracing Isolation
BRACING ISOLATION, Skegness Pier, 1984 Take the famous bracing fresh air of Skegness on the east coast and add the splendid isolation of almost unlimited space, not to mention the remains of a pier that has the look of an extra in a sci-fi movie. (No 3 of my 1001 Photos Project)
Gladys By The Sea
My mother, Gladys, at the seaside over 90 years ago. A moment in time, but a moment that joins together a known history and a shared future. I’ve added a drop of colour, she’d have liked that.
St Thomas And The Gasworks
St Thomas And The Gas Works. Halifax, 1966 (The 2nd of my "1001 Photos" Project) I remember being mesmerised by the view of St Thomas’s, Claremount, framed within the complex structures of Halifax Gas Works. I would take a photograph almost every time I passed along Bank Bottom.
A Memorable Picture
“This will make a memorable picture” they probably all thought as the shutter shut. And it did: ninety years later people still look at it and think, what long legs he had!
Riding The Storm
Some time ago I was given a book called "1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die". During a long and boring airport drive on Saturday I decided to write a companion volume :"1001 Photographs I Took Before I Died" This is No 1, taken in Doncaster back in 1982.
Commercial Street, Brighouse
The scene is still fairly easily recognisable for those who know Brighouse: the point where King Street become Commercial Street. The George is still going and most of the buildings on the top side of Commercial Street are the same. The shop blinds, the hand cart and the gas lights are long gone, but Brighouse … Continue reading Commercial Street, Brighouse
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