Category: Picture Post

Southwold Sky

Sometimes the seaside gets squashed between the sea and the sky like the custard cream in a sandwich biscuit.

Archives : Orgreave Before The Battle

Orgreave Coking Plant was like a working industrial sculpture that greeted visitors to the city as they drove along the Parkway from the M1. A couple of years after I took this photograph it became famous as the site of the famous Battle of Orgreave during the Miner's strike. Within ten years it had been … Continue reading Archives : Orgreave Before The Battle

10 From Spain 5 : Lingering Smile

Years and years of sun, gusts and gusts of wind, and the occasional rain that has strayed down off the plain have had their effects on this church carving - but that glimmer of a smile still lingers on.

10 From Spain 4 : A New Spanish Flag

If ever Spain decides it needs a new flag, they could do worse than an angled white building set against a stunning blue sky.  

Ten From Spain 3 : Transparent Signs

Whilst the rain in Spain might stay mainly on the plain, the sun gets all over the place. Through the orange trees, through the terracotta urbanisations, even through the roadside signs themselves.

10 From Spain : 2. Chrystallised Yachts

Turn your back on the concrete blockhouses and you see something very different. The blue sea merges into the blue sky and black-masted boats crystallise where they meet.

10 From Spain : 1. Sunny Geometry

There is something about the new bits of Spain: it's all surfaces and straight lines. It is like they have been designed using just a handful of instruments from a child's geometry set - on the day the pair of compasses went missing.