Category: 1000 PICTURES

Market Street, Halifax

Market Street, Halifax : A rare colour photo of mine from the 1960s (I couldn't normally afford colour film and processing). Zoom in and you can rediscover long-forgotten shops and long-demolished buildings. And the man in the bottom right corner deserves a photograph of his own.

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

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)

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 Walk Around Halifax

I have been taking photographs of Halifax for the best part of sixty years, but it is something I never get bored with. I happily take every chance I get to walk around the streets of the town I have always called "home", looking for new insights, new frames, new angles and new shapes. I … Continue reading A Walk Around Halifax

Flying Through The Skegness Skies

This strange contraption perhaps gives a new meaning to the phrase "fell off the back of a wagon"! The wagon was "on the front" at Skegness, more years ago than I care to remember. It was always a blurred picture, it was always slightly unreal. The only thing to do with it was to make … Continue reading Flying Through The Skegness Skies

Probably Not

This is the result of an experiment to see whether a truly bad photograph can be made interesting. First take a truly bad photograph, which I did whilst driving around a roundabout as a passenger in a car. Without thought of composition or content, I just pressed the shutter button. Next set to with cropping, … Continue reading Probably Not

ON YOUTHFUL PASSION AND THE AROMA OF BOILING WORT AND HOPS

Youth is a time for falling in love. Whilst middle age can be devoted to fame and fortune and old age to remembering where you left your false teeth: youth is the time to open your heart to passion. As a young man I fell in love with breweries. I realise that this may make … Continue reading ON YOUTHFUL PASSION AND THE AROMA OF BOILING WORT AND HOPS

1000 PHOTOGRAPHS (1)

Grey sands, leading to a grey sea, under a grey sky. Skegness in the 1980s. It was a bit of a grey decade for me - the decade I lost my hearing. Nearly forty summers ago. Were things quieter then - or did I simply get up earlier? There weren’t as many trees, not as … Continue reading 1000 PHOTOGRAPHS (1)