You almost get a sense of freedom when you are dealing with found photographs (aka photos of unknown origin). The photographs are really "moments in time"; the subjects have no back stories and their futures our outside our knowledge or control. You are free to concentrate on the image itself. That instant in time that … Continue reading Tasker And Self At The Gliding Club
Author: Alan Burnett
Escape From Heavenly Time
Not that many people know of Salvador Dali's 1968 surrealist sculpture "Escape From Time In Heaven" which was on public display in Halifax in the late 1960s. I did go to see it myself and was very impressed by it - I even took the photograph you see here - but I have difficulty recalling … Continue reading Escape From Heavenly Time
Smoke, Soot And Sweat
I’ve always been attracted to this scene and I have photographed it a number of times over the years. These days it is the tamest of views, the mills, railway viaducts and steam have all gone. Back in the 1960s, however, it belched life along with smoke and soot and sweat.
Halifax
Most of my old photos of Halifax tend to be looking down onto the town from the surrounding hilltops, providing the kind of view that we get from Google Earth and the like. When I abandoned the hilltops the results were layer after layer of chimneys, stacks and towers.
Desktop Calendar : Harry’s Cricket Cows
Harry Moore - my Uncle Harry - was born in Bradford in 1903 and, for a time in the early 1930s he was a professional entertainer with a travelling Concert Party, appearing in seaside pavilions and small town theatres throughout the land. After he married in 1933, he gave up touring and took a job … Continue reading Desktop Calendar : Harry’s Cricket Cows
Desktop Calendar : Helsinki Burns Boats
According to my Lightroom Catalogue I have amassed some 93,606 photographs over my lifetime. Given my considerable age that works out at one photograph every seven hours, day and night, since the moment of my birth. I got a random number generator to pick just one of the 93,606 to illustrate today's calendar and it … Continue reading Desktop Calendar : Helsinki Burns Boats
Desktop Calendar : Summer View Rhapsody
Summer appeared yesterday out of the blue (or rather out of the murky grey that had been the norm for the last couple of months). Man, wife and dog went for a walk up Greetland and then stopped for refreshments at the recently re-opened Star Pub. What a grand day. There is even a suggestion … Continue reading Desktop Calendar : Summer View Rhapsody
Chapters From A Book Yet To Be Written
This group of young ladies, in what can only be described as eccentric dress, comes from a batch of photographs I bought several years ago which also contained some photographs of performances by the Brighouse Amateur Theatrical Society. We can therefore surmise that these fine ladies were the chorus from some Brighouse amateur theatrical production … Continue reading Chapters From A Book Yet To Be Written
Busy Line
I think I took this photograph from part way up Southowram Bank back in the 1960s. The image captures the almost sensual curve of the main railway line as it carves a way between mills and factories from Beacon Hill tunnel to Halifax Station. Square Church can be seen unsuccessfully competing for attention with the … Continue reading Busy Line
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