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Reflections in a mud puddle… - 01/Dec/2024 18:41 - 4 days ago
Sometimes it pays to look closely as you pick your way through puddles on the footpath. Perhaps a different perspective on a fam...
End of the pier show…? - 18/Nov/2024 18:05 - 17 days ago
Whatever happened to …all of the heroes? They got covered in tarpaulin to await the next summer season… Sometimes yo...
Marginal landscapes… - 13/Nov/2024 18:44 - 22 days ago
Mudflats, strand lines, sea grass, shingle beach, big skies, and an imagined isolation…despite the proximity of one of the...
Storm… - 20/Oct/2024 19:07 - 46 days ago
A wet and windy Sunday in Pompey and the first storm of the season-Storm Ashley. Enough of a storm concern to result in the canc...
The Changingman - 19/Oct/2024 10:51 - 47 days ago
Well that was pretty special. It’s not the first time that Paul Weller has appeared, unbeknownst to him obviously, on this...
(The art and artifice…) of colour - 17/Oct/2024 17:29 - 49 days ago
A quartet of random subjects in colour that caught my eye…and (almost) avoided the holiday photo vibe… Normal servic...
Sepia… - 16/Oct/2024 18:45 - 50 days ago
Trying to create a narrative that joins together a week’s holiday proved to be a stretch too far, so I’ve opted in t...
Salt, sea, sky… - 29/Sep/2024 16:38 - 67 days ago
Sometimes the seascapes that appear in this blog conjure up memories or make connections with the songs or writings of others. T...
Deep time…? - 22/Sep/2024 12:55 - 74 days ago
Holy Trinity Church in Coventry was first referenced in 1113. The original church burned down in 1257, before being rebuilt duri...
Cycle… - 15/Sep/2024 17:51 - 81 days ago
“A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim,And meets with sun-lost lip the marsh’s brim.The pools low lying, dank with mos...
Portsea Island sheet music… - 14/Sep/2024 20:03 - 82 days ago
I feel a project coming on… From rabble rousing to a photographer I hadn’t heard of until I bought The Levellers Col...
Ephemeral… - 18/Aug/2024 18:56 - 109 days ago
Is it possible to make art from photographing the ephemeral? Is there something in the relationship between the ‘found’ obje...
Metropolis… - 17/Aug/2024 15:44 - 110 days ago
Keep your loved ones close as you walk through the landscape of the modern city. Hold them tight as you navigate through the ste...
Strange news has come to town… - 05/Aug/2024 15:13 - 122 days ago
…in the guise of the Wickham Festival. In truth, with four days of music, and more than a few photos to sift through, the ...
These things I know… - 26/Jul/2024 16:22 - 132 days ago
The rest is an as yet unwritten story… As Saint Julian once sang… “Paranormal in the West Country‘Cause ...
But sometimes it is… - 21/Jul/2024 18:06 - 137 days ago
Black and white images from Browndown Range… Feel free to conjure up your own dystopian narrative… 😉 World of col...
Not everything is black and white… - 21/Jul/2024 17:58 - 137 days ago
A return visit to Browndown ranges over the weekend. It’s a military training area, so not always open to the public. And ...
Watcher of the skies… - 07/Jul/2024 19:07 - 151 days ago
In the same way that you can never stand in the same river twice, there remains something unique about each cloud formation. The...
Remain in light…. - 29/Jun/2024 19:24 - 159 days ago
A brutally hot afternoon, on the city margins. It was always going to be black and white, creating shadows, silhouettes, reflect...
Patti Smith @ Brighton Dome… - 26/Jun/2024 22:19 - 162 days ago
So…for anyone who has hung around these pages before, you’ll know that Patti Smith has been a constant soundtrack fo...
Punk rock for gentlemen… - 18/Jun/2024 10:56 - 170 days ago
Simple songs for complex people. Sunday afternoon at the Edge of the Wedge with The Fallen Leaves, aided and abetted by Paul Gro...
Another world… - 29/May/2024 07:25 - 190 days ago
Hayling Oyster Beds yesterday morning. Despite living in one of the most densely populated cities in the UK, it’s still possib...
Between land and sea… - 18/May/2024 19:24 - 201 days ago
…lies a zone of uncertainty. A shoreline that humankind thinks it can control. “The sea…is that state of barba...
The world is turning… - 12/May/2024 16:42 - 207 days ago
...I hope it don’t turn away… For some reason the words of Neil Young’s “On the beach” came to min...
Phoenix rising… - 06/May/2024 15:11 - 213 days ago
Another one from the vaults… [15 September 2018 to be precise] Walking through Coventry University campus towards the Cath...
Philosophy corner… - 01/May/2024 17:19 - 218 days ago
An occasional series. Perhaps… Turns out I have something in the region of 15,000 digital images taken since I started thi...
Coastal defence… - 29/Apr/2024 16:58 - 220 days ago
…ancient and modern. New coastal defences for Southsea, bookending a different kind of defence… “…Souths...
Quiet moments within the maelstrom… - 26/Apr/2024 07:16 - 223 days ago
New Model Army, Live @ The 1805, Southampton. If you haven’t seen the light….why not? With a new album to tour, at a sold ou...
Between decay and renewal… - 14/Apr/2024 17:32 - 235 days ago
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They...
Underneath the arches… - 10/Apr/2024 14:10 - 239 days ago
…you sometimes find things that are not quite what they pretend to be. Barriers that purport to protect, yet on closer ins...
Music of the mind… - 31/Mar/2024 14:12 - 249 days ago
Collecting Piece II (1963 Autumn): “Break a contemporary museum into pieces with the means you have chosen. Collect the pi...
Marginal… - 17/Mar/2024 19:26 - 263 days ago
Broadmarsh again… Dodging the rain, seeking out the shadows and reflections in partially flooded car parks. Despite being ...
What if… - 10/Mar/2024 19:20 - 270 days ago
…this was an exit point. Where would it take you? Before the sun fully burns off the morning clouds, the horizon remains u...
Negative space… - 02/Mar/2024 19:50 - 278 days ago
How to photograph concrete… This is the MAGMA Centre, a conference facility in Adeje,Tenerife. To my mind a terrific examp...
The three fates…. - 27/Feb/2024 09:24 - 282 days ago
Returning to Teide National Park, a landscape last seen four years ago and first encountered in 2015, prompts the question of ho...
Woodland… - 18/Feb/2024 19:29 - 291 days ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see n...
Chaos&Calypso… - 02/Feb/2024 18:21 - 307 days ago
Ain’t that the truth… John J Presley @ The Edge of the Wedge, Portsmouth…. Burning a way into your dark soul&#...
Scratching the surface… - 20/Jan/2024 14:52 - 320 days ago
A cold morning at Eastney Point, and the upturned rowing boats caught my eye. Love the way that repeated dragging them up onto t...
Horizons… - 14/Jan/2024 14:39 - 326 days ago
Before the sun fully burns off the morning clouds, the horizon remains unclear. Land and sea are interchangeable, and coastal st...
Shadowland… - 01/Jan/2024 19:38 - 339 days ago
So here we go again. Chasing light and darkness on the first day of 2024. On one side, clouds that cast their shadows on the wat...
Happy New Year… - 31/Dec/2023 17:45 - 340 days ago
Nothing is absolutely black and white. Sometimes things get turned upside down. Occasionally we slip our moorings. Maybe the pic...
Impermanence… - 31/Dec/2023 10:48 - 340 days ago
Images from the penultimate day of 2023. A meditation of sorts. Landscape, preserved for a moment in a photograph. A semi perman...
On the margins… - 17/Dec/2023 19:27 - 354 days ago
Been thinking about horizons, both literal and metaphorical. The thought of ‘what’s beyond’ seems to be a bit ...
Light/show… - 12/Dec/2023 17:56 - 359 days ago
Suede @ Portsmouth Guildhall. A 30 year career that just seems to be getting better. You know the drill by now. A photo sequence...
Chasing the light… - 28/Nov/2023 15:46 - 373 days ago
Langstone Harbour from Broadmarsh, mid-morning. All taken within about 20 minutes of each other. Sometimes the light can create ...
Quartet… - 27/Nov/2023 18:43 - 374 days ago
Sometime during lockdown I read the first chapter of Nan Shepherd’s book, “The Living Mountain” in the company of seve...
One man and his shacket… - 19/Nov/2023 19:33 - 382 days ago
It’s 40 years since I first saw Billy Bragg, when he was supporting the Icicle Works at Portsmouth Polytechnic, back in No...
15 years gone… - 05/Nov/2023 21:38 - 396 days ago
Turns out I’ve been doing this blog for 15 years now! Or so WordPress tells me. The blog was initially for a photography c...
Ship to shore… - 29/Oct/2023 20:03 - 403 days ago
Dodging (after a fashion) the rain this afternoon, Broadmarsh still manages to offer up images that conjure up an air of mystery...
Abstracted… - 22/Oct/2023 14:08 - 410 days ago
Sometimes the natural world throws up some interesting abstracts if you look closely. Four images that I particularly like from ...
Skeleton trees… - 21/Oct/2023 16:58 - 411 days ago
Butser Hill on a wet and windy Saturday morning. In the mist the trees take on a supernatural quality. Their skeletal frames sta...
Collective meaning…? - 15/Oct/2023 19:13 - 417 days ago
Sometimes there isn’t any obvious unifying theme to a set of photographs taken close together (both geographically and tem...
El Caminito del Rey… - 15/Oct/2023 15:03 - 417 days ago
Andalusian landscape at its finest… No words necessary. But if you want to know more…. Self evidently a day for blac...
Diamonds on the water… - 26/Sep/2023 11:03 - 436 days ago
Sun reflecting off the water yesterday. This came to mind… “When you find no justicein a world of hurtfor the poor and d...
This is the modern world… - 20/Sep/2023 12:54 - 442 days ago
“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.” [...
Not everything in art is black and white… - 18/Sep/2023 09:47 - 444 days ago
Over the weekend of 9-10 September 2023 , Look Up Portsmouth street art festival took place. I had a bit of a wander along Highl...
Ever wondered what goes on beneath the surface…? - 14/Sep/2023 17:39 - 448 days ago
Farlington Marshes, to the north east of Portsea Island, carries a secret beneath its tidal waters. Hidden underwater gardens of...
Liminal spaces… - 08/Sep/2023 10:00 - 454 days ago
Portsmouth city centre… Crossing points and gateways to elsewhere. Something of a recurring theme for me. In the brightest...
Not everything is black and white… - 28/Aug/2023 16:22 - 465 days ago
…but these are. A few more photos from Victorious 2023. Check out the music here: Blossoms: Charlemagne Brave Rival: What&...
Cumbia is the new punk… - 28/Aug/2023 14:36 - 465 days ago
And who could offer an objective response to that… Anyway, it’s always good to have a festival on your doorstep, and...
Buddha&The Big Cats… - 22/Aug/2023 10:08 - 471 days ago
Not the first thing you expect to come across when visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Ironbridge Gorge, but I guess it i...
Framed… - 15/Aug/2023 16:30 - 478 days ago
Walking across Southsea Common this morning to see how the stages for Victorious are progressing. The Spinnaker has a habit of l...
It’s a sign… - 10/Aug/2023 15:37 - 483 days ago
So let’s get this out of the way first of all. Massive thanks to Peter Chegwyn and the team behind Wickham Festival for k...
Track Dogs - 07/Aug/2023 15:44 - 486 days ago
Very occasionally what I’m looking for in an image, and what emerges from the camera appears to be in some kind of mystica...
Horizons… - 26/Jul/2023 19:44 - 498 days ago
Bognor Regis on a Wednesday afternoon… As ever, trying to minimise the human ‘presence’ in the photographs. Lo...
Warning signs… - 17/Jul/2023 12:46 - 507 days ago
Dried fruit strikes back…. 😉...
Why…? - 17/Jul/2023 12:20 - 507 days ago
Why do the water companies seem to be able to maximise profits and payments to share holders, whilst minimising investment in in...
Can you stand in the same river twice…? - 10/Jul/2023 17:07 - 514 days ago
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, t...
Coast… - 07/Jul/2023 19:35 - 517 days ago
Looking across Langstone Harbour from Hayling Island. High contrast and shadow usually lends itself best to monochrome. Much as ...
Victorious Festival: August 2015 - 01/Jul/2023 15:09 - 523 days ago
Yep… I know its a few years ago, but I’ve finally got around to looking on the back up drive for a long defunct comp...
Sequence… - 25/Jun/2023 18:53 - 529 days ago
No ‘story’ behind the selection of these photographs, beyond the fact that they were taken in sequence whilst walkin...
Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express… - 16/Jun/2023 13:10 - 538 days ago
Live @ The 1865, Southampton. Last seen my me in Groningen in 2017 at the Take Root festival, and before that, back in Southampt...
Mike Peters… - 08/Jun/2023 17:32 - 546 days ago
This… Live at the Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea. Magnificent. Nuff said…...
Promenade… - 06/Jun/2023 17:34 - 548 days ago
noun: “A leisurely walk or ride, especially in a public place for pleasure or display” Rather like Pavlov’s do...
Surface of the moon…? - 06/Jun/2023 15:40 - 548 days ago
Broadmarsh Coastal Park, at the edge of Langstone Harbour. Black & white creates its own desolation, shapes the landscape an...
Dream landscape… - 26/May/2023 09:18 - 559 days ago
Between waking and sleeping lies a landscape of the mind… Farlington Marshes. Another world at the edge of one of the most...
Mandark @ The Lord John Russell…[12/5/23] - 13/May/2023 13:54 - 572 days ago
Not quite Abbey Road, but Albert Road… Lord John Russell pub Southsea Pompey punk covers band. (More here) Keep music live...
It’s a signal…. - 12/May/2023 18:29 - 573 days ago
…or maybe a sign… Hayling Oyster Beds this morning. Look carefully and you can see Portsmouth in the distance on a c...
Ethereal… - 08/May/2023 11:13 - 577 days ago
Langstone Harbour offers up distant horizons, small islands, skeletal trees and fragments of history…. Crow knows…you need t...
Turin Brakes… - 07/May/2023 17:54 - 578 days ago
So that was a revelation… Never really listened (knowingly) to Turin Brakes until this week. Turns out that was a major om...
Another quiet night in England… - 03/May/2023 14:32 - 582 days ago
…but the words of a song often carry a power that doesn’t need a full band.. “…Where is the pit and the ...
Darkness at the edge of town…? - 02/May/2023 07:36 - 583 days ago
Looking through yesterday’s photos taken in Southsea, it was almost inevitable that they would end up in monochrome. Brood...
Skeleton Tree… - 23/Apr/2023 19:35 - 592 days ago
.Skeleton Tree and other landscapes. Butser Hill on a wet and windy Sunday morning with photos and words inspired once again by ...
Coast - 12/Apr/2023 20:07 - 603 days ago
Dodging the rain today. Not particularly easy at the exposed end of Eastney, but worth it for the dark skies, and some terrific ...
Margins, crossing points and guardians of the edge lands… - 09/Apr/2023 08:54 - 606 days ago
Despite living in one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, it’s the margins and edge lands of Pompey that offer spa...
Everyone is someone…… - 14/Mar/2023 18:08 - 632 days ago
This… @ Portsmouth Guildhall… Slim Jim Phantom & Stiff Little Fingers All images © John Callaway 2023...
Light finds a way… - 05/Mar/2023 20:11 - 641 days ago
Light finds a wayBetween crooked branchesCreates a strange geometryRendered in monochrome…. Light seeks out the darkest pl...
Funk’d if I kno… - 25/May/2022 17:33 - 925 days ago
Well that was something special… George Clinton-Parliament-Funkadelic live at The O2, Kentish Town. Review here. Mommy, Wh...
All is loneliness… - 21/May/2022 17:59 - 929 days ago
Sometimes landscapes aren’t quite what they seem. Behind where I work are fields covered with agricultural fleece, in prep...
Zelfportret van een ander… - 19/May/2022 17:26 - 931 days ago
So…back to the Netherlands almost three years after the last time. On this occasion to attend the marriage of friends, as ...
Dreadzone live @ The Brook, Southampton… - 07/May/2022 17:42 - 943 days ago
Get yourself dubwise… Read… Listen… Collaborate… You know the drill. Keep music live, support local venu...
The Aldous Huxley memorial flamingo… - 06/May/2022 17:44 - 944 days ago
“But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be ...
Liminal… - 25/Apr/2022 17:31 - 955 days ago
I’m increasingly drawn to coastal margins as a liminal space. A crossing point or threshold between two states. In this ca...
Station to station… - 15/Apr/2022 18:01 - 965 days ago
[No sign of the Thin White Duke… ] The solitary traveller on a railway platform, lit, yet at the same time under cover of ...
High rise, low tide…. - 13/Apr/2022 19:56 - 967 days ago
“This was an environment built, not for man, but for man’s absence…” [JG Ballard: “High Rise”...
Rust never sleeps… - 07/Apr/2022 06:53 - 973 days ago
Old habits die hard. Looking at an allotment plot recently acquired by the organisation that I work for, I still have half an ey...
Got those… - 03/Apr/2022 17:54 - 977 days ago
…pre-match, wander round the city, looking for a photograph, no real story, but quite like the end result, blues…. S...
Peat&Diesel @ The Wedgewood Rooms: 30 March 2022 - 03/Apr/2022 14:47 - 977 days ago
First came across Peat & Diesel at Wickham Festival last year. One of those moments when you step into a tent, not really su...
Available light… - 26/Mar/2022 15:04 - 985 days ago
New Model Army @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Southsea. Magnificent… If you haven’t seen the light…why not? And a fine...
Cone an’ the Beach Hut… - 21/Mar/2022 07:29 - 990 days ago
….the lesser known sequel…. A trip to Hayling Island over the weekend and I came away with this… To be honest, it could...
Landscapes of the mind…(i) - 14/Mar/2022 20:11 - 997 days ago
Ten years ago, in March 2012, I returned home to the UK after two years of working with VSO in Nepal. I did have a brief trip ba...
Oh mama, can this really be the end… - 12/Mar/2022 19:54 - 999 days ago
…to be stuck inside of Portsmouth with the COVID blues again…. Two parallel lines means I’m confined to barrac...
Gong live @ The 1865, Southampton - 03/Mar/2022 19:24 - 1008 days ago
“Master Builder,tell me how you make a temple…” [Gong: “Master Builder”] Well maybe start with mus...
Presence through absence… - 28/Feb/2022 21:07 - 1011 days ago
In the absence of daguerrotype, the art of not getting a human presence in an image usually requires a combination of arriving s...
Rivers of sand… - 20/Feb/2022 18:29 - 1019 days ago
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is a story of the earth” [Rachel...
Whatever happened to…all the heroes? - 16/Feb/2022 21:05 - 1023 days ago
Time for a trip back to those hazy, grainy, black and white memories of the late 1970’s. I was fortunate enough to be at L...
Down the rabbit hole… - 13/Feb/2022 17:04 - 1026 days ago
Sometimes the camera offers an opportunity to bridge the gap between what is seen, and what is imagined. What’s behind the...
Landscape and light… - 30/Jan/2022 18:55 - 1040 days ago
Three different images over the course of a looped walk from Havant along the old Hayling Billy track to Langstone and back. All...
Imagined landscapes? - 24/Jan/2022 18:31 - 1046 days ago
“The wet stretch between land and seas the true beach, the true in-between space…. It is a sacred space, an unresolv...
Coventry Canal… - 23/Jan/2022 15:54 - 1047 days ago
“The canal tells you storiesThe canal sings you songsThey hang in that spaceBetween memory and water…” [“...
Ruff justice….. - 21/Jan/2022 07:29 - 1049 days ago
The best and safest place for a big dog is behind bars…...
Chiaroscuro… - 16/Jan/2022 19:13 - 1054 days ago
So first gig of the New Year…and what better way to start with Pompey punk band Acid Attack live at the Edge of the Wedge....
Ephemeral… - 03/Jan/2022 21:55 - 1067 days ago
A couple of images from New Years day…. Sometimes there’s joy to be had from a puddle of muddy water and the burnish...
Darkness and light… - 30/Dec/2021 20:13 - 1071 days ago
The city takes on a different persona under darkness. Even if it has a certain familiarity to the night time walker. The brighte...
Colour…coded - 19/Dec/2021 20:12 - 1082 days ago
“Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are ne...
Winter trees…. - 17/Dec/2021 19:24 - 1084 days ago
An idle moment earlier today, gazing out of the office window, and giving my eyes a rest from the computer screen. The tree on t...
Divided… - 11/Dec/2021 19:19 - 1090 days ago
I should probably stop looking for metaphors, so I’ll just stick with a few photographs of the saltwater creek and the fre...
Art, architecture and apparitions…. - 05/Dec/2021 16:01 - 1096 days ago
So let’s get the disappointment out of the way first…. Sky Blues 1, West Bromwich Albion 2. But a lunch time kick of...
The Dinz&Witchdoktors…live @ The Loft, Southsea - 28/Nov/2021 17:19 - 1103 days ago
You know the drill by now. Support live music, support local venues… and if there’s a little bit of mayhem… ...
Decaying light… - 25/Nov/2021 22:17 - 1106 days ago
Driving home this evening, the skies seemed to be on fire, but this was not a night to view such a display from the A259 ribbon ...
John Murry live @ The Railway… - 24/Nov/2021 23:11 - 1107 days ago
It’s been a couple of years since I last saw John Murry at the Railway Inn in Winchester, and nearly five years since firs...
Tied up in Nottz… - 22/Nov/2021 19:23 - 1109 days ago
Early morning walk along the Nottingham and Beeston canal. Fabulous light, great reflections, and the canal lent itself to an im...
Untitled - 14/Nov/2021 20:16 - 1117 days ago
I keep coming back to this photograph, taken just over a week ago of The Nightingales at the Wedgewood Rooms. Last seen by me ar...
How high the moon… - 13/Nov/2021 15:47 - 1118 days ago
…hey ho the moon…has flown since dusk began… [“How High he Moon”: Nigel Mazlyn Jones] Everything c...
Stand up if you love Pompey… - 08/Nov/2021 18:31 - 1123 days ago
Or at least lean gently against something solid… A day off work so a bit of a wander around The Hard and Spice Island toda...
Rust never sleeps… - 31/Oct/2021 16:17 - 1131 days ago
Sometimes, if you look closely enough, it’s possible to find landscapes within landscapes. Small localised maps that chart...
A tale of two cities…. - 24/Oct/2021 18:50 - 1138 days ago
To watch the City…or visit the City. Or perchance both. Despite moving away from Coventry in 1980, it’s still where ...
Back in mono… - 16/Oct/2021 15:28 - 1146 days ago
Not everything is in black and white, but sometimes it really is that simple. Drums, guitar, voice, and a wall of sound. That...
Balcony Man - 10/Oct/2021 11:35 - 1152 days ago
“I’m two hundred pounds of packed iceSitting on a chair and in the morning sunPutting on my tap dancing shoes, oh my...
Sunlight and shadow… - 06/Oct/2021 19:34 - 1156 days ago
Words chiselled into polished stone, embossed with fading gold. No explanation, just there, on the towpath of the Stroudwater Na...
Willow and water… - 05/Oct/2021 07:45 - 1157 days ago
A week of reading, walking and exploring new landscapes…and the occasional glass of something to inspire and offer new pathway...
Bread and circuses… - 04/Oct/2021 15:31 - 1158 days ago
The latest mechanisms of government put forward by the Tory party appeared to be lacking in any real substance, despite the...
No mean feat…? - 28/Sep/2021 18:12 - 1164 days ago
So, that’s it for Trailwalker 2021. Mark and Ben made the distance-100km inside 28 hours. Unfortunately yours truly was to...
Fade into grey… - 21/Sep/2021 17:53 - 1171 days ago
Despite being a familiar and favourite walk, the seafront from Eastney to South Parade Pier always rewards patience and observan...
On the road again… - 18/Sep/2021 18:21 - 1174 days ago
‘Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.’ ‘Where we going, man?’ ‘I don’t know but we gott...
IDLES @ Portsmouth Guildhall - 13/Sep/2021 20:57 - 1179 days ago
Wrong lens, extremely high ISO, but managed to pull a few reasonable shots out of the bag, despite the graininess of a lot of th...
Klaatu lives…. - 12/Sep/2021 13:04 - 1180 days ago
…in the West Midlands. So…a brief wander around my hometown ahead of the CCFC game against Middlesbrough. [2-0 to th...
Life with the lion…? - 05/Sep/2021 15:34 - 1187 days ago
Evidently the people in the following photographs are part of a concerted effort to carry out “a shameful attack our way o...
Lee‘Scratch’Perry (20/3/1936 to 29/8/2021) - 30/Aug/2021 19:24 - 1193 days ago
There’s plenty of obituaries out there detailing the importance of Lee Perry, and his contribution to music, so I don̵...
Tracks and transports… - 29/Aug/2021 16:07 - 1194 days ago
Clapham Junction – Under The Westway – Clapham Junction A triptych of sorts. Waypoints en route to watching CCFC aga...
End of the pier show… - 16/Aug/2021 20:19 - 1207 days ago
Another public service announcement with guitars courtesy of Pompey Punk N’ Roll. Nothing better than live music at the en...
A minor detour… - 13/Aug/2021 16:59 - 1210 days ago
A minotaur? A non-thematic collection of oddities and outliers from the Wickham Festival. As Neil Innes once suggested, “I’v...
Available light… - 10/Aug/2021 16:00 - 1213 days ago
I seem to have ‘failed better’ in the available light stakes, so a few more portraits of individual artists at Wickh...
Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb… - 09/Aug/2021 18:46 - 1214 days ago
If it’s good enough for Bobby Z, it’s good enough for me. So let’s get this out of the way first of all. Massi...
Portraits in landscape… - 09/Aug/2021 13:23 - 1214 days ago
Back home after four days at the Wickham Festival and well over 250 photographs to look through. Some taken on the mobile phone ...
Inside: We Shelter Here Sometimes… - 01/Aug/2021 12:15 - 1222 days ago
For the past ten years or so, like many other Portsmouth residents, I’ve happened upon the work of My Dog Sighs. Sometimes...
Landscapes of the imagination… - 29/Jul/2021 17:33 - 1225 days ago
“The Salterns Way is a 12 mile cycle route from the centre of Chichester to the sand dunes of East Head. Some of the route...
Ship to shore… - 25/Jul/2021 17:50 - 1229 days ago
Dodging heavy showers today, but lucky enough that the available light brought out the best of the landscape. The photos below a...
Ghosts in the machine… - 22/Jul/2021 19:11 - 1232 days ago
I’ve recently been thinking about and reading a lot stuff about hauntology, fragments of reality and half remembered image...
And so it begins… - 18/Jul/2021 19:28 - 1236 days ago
The Clown Prince of Bell End (sic), has declared that tomorrow is ‘freedom day’. Personally I prefer to believe the ...
Fast Trains @ The Wedgewood Rooms: 15 July 2021 - 17/Jul/2021 13:20 - 1237 days ago
So good to be back at the Wedgewood Rooms. Some 18 months since my last visit there. The Bellrays if you want to know… Any...
A kind of blue… - 11/Jul/2021 18:53 - 1243 days ago
Tide on the turn, fishermen on the jetty, and some interesting reflections, shadows and silhouettes… Eastney Storm Outfall...
Real landscape…? - 04/Jul/2021 18:45 - 1250 days ago
Most weekends I try and get out for a relatively long walk, with the destination often emerging using the Kerouac approach…...
Story of the blues… - 03/Jul/2021 13:55 - 1251 days ago
So…another socially distanced gig and a reminder of the importance of electric music for the mind, body and soul…. T...
The ghost of Robert Johnson hides beneath the darkened pier… - 27/Jun/2021 19:08 - 1257 days ago
The idea that a photograph is a ‘true’ representation of what is seen through the camera lens can always be subverte...
Dream sequence… - 20/Jun/2021 18:54 - 1264 days ago
Sometimes you can just be in the right place at the right time. So this photograph gets a post all of its own, just because its ...
Got live if you want it… - 19/Jun/2021 16:45 - 1265 days ago
Mark Chadwick from the Levellers sings “songs from inside a fucking tea room in Southsea”… Yep…one man, ...
A sense of place… - 13/Jun/2021 18:24 - 1271 days ago
Chasing light and shadow this weekend…. @ Hilsea Lines. Sometimes its enough to let the images speak for themselves…...
The space between… - 13/Jun/2021 18:03 - 1271 days ago
“The beach is an ambiguous place, an in between place… A place where everything transformational…begins and en...
Light, shade and a little colour… - 06/Jun/2021 15:50 - 1278 days ago
So the gradual unlocking continues, with another socially distanced gig from the Pompey Punk n’ Roll crew. This time indoo...
On the beach… - 03/Jun/2021 17:34 - 1281 days ago
Despite being on the eastern side of the most densely populated city in the UK, Eastney beach remains remarkably free of people,...
Pompey Punk n’Roll: 31 May 2021 - 31/May/2021 19:45 - 1284 days ago
I have seen the future rock and roll…and it is local promoters putting on gigs that keep music live, bring people out and ...
Waiting… - 30/May/2021 18:41 - 1285 days ago
Vladimir: “That passed the time”Estragon: “It would have passed in any case”.Vladimir: “Yes, but n...
Coventry blue: Triptych III - 30/May/2021 17:56 - 1285 days ago
Coventry was a centre for the weaving trade in medieval times, and known for cloth dyed blue. Its not clear what shade of blue, ...
Chasing light: Triptych II - 29/May/2021 18:08 - 1286 days ago
The magnificence of Coventry Cathedral is something which, as a boy growing up, I rather took for granted. I’ve reflected ...
Colour (Triptych I) - 29/May/2021 15:17 - 1286 days ago
A somewhat spur of the moment journey to my hometown Coventry yesterday. One day beyond my 62nd birthday, the urge to revisit, r...
Sea gods… - 23/May/2021 19:07 - 1292 days ago
Ominous dark clouds over Eastney this weekend, and an uneasy feeling that something or somebody is watching. Or maybe its just t...
Alea iacta est… - 16/May/2021 18:59 - 1299 days ago
“Men at some time are masters of their fates.The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our starsBut in ourselves, that we are unde...
Process…. - 15/May/2021 16:55 - 1300 days ago
Sometimes the landscapes (and seascapes) that appear in this blog conjure up memories or make connections with the songs or writ...
Ten minute window… - 09/May/2021 15:58 - 1306 days ago
So, this is something of an experiment. I was reading about a film by Wayne Wang called “Smoke” recently. The centra...
King Rocker… - 03/May/2021 18:24 - 1312 days ago
Took me a while to put this post up, as I couldn’t find photographs from the last Nightingales gig. At the Wedgewood Rooms...
Light falls through itself… - 03/May/2021 15:48 - 1312 days ago
Back to Farlington Marshes on a quiet bank holiday Monday. It’s a location that bears repeated visits, whatever the weathe...
Concrete, steel and glass… - 02/May/2021 18:49 - 1313 days ago
A different type of landscape this weekend… Black and white images from the centre of Portsmouth. I’ve been re-readi...
Pink Moon… - 26/Apr/2021 21:11 - 1319 days ago
“Saw it written and I saw it sayPink moon is on its wayAnd none of you stand so tallPink moon gonna get ye allAnd it’...
Transient… - 25/Apr/2021 19:14 - 1320 days ago
Is it possible to make art from photographing ordinary, everyday objects? Is there something in the relationship between the ...
Abstract… - 20/Apr/2021 17:22 - 1325 days ago
….A dual meaning if ever there was one. Abstract shapes from a derelict boatbuilders in Bosham, c/w plants and micro-org...
In search of dream spaces… - 18/Apr/2021 08:27 - 1327 days ago
The true flaneur walks purposefully, yet with little clear purpose… A random turn, a footbridge, a flash of colour in a ro...
C’est la vie… - 11/Apr/2021 14:44 - 1334 days ago
… aka “Washed Up at Broadmarsh”. Haven’t been to Broadmarsh for a couple of weeks, but this beached and ...
Fragmentary blue… - 04/Apr/2021 18:40 - 1341 days ago
“Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, Wh...
The golden hour… - 03/Apr/2021 17:16 - 1342 days ago
The lengthening days offer more opportunity to observe and capture the hour before sunset. That time where the sun bathes the la...
Nothing but blue skies… - 28/Mar/2021 19:21 - 1348 days ago
Another walk in the vicinity of the Fraser Range over the weekend. If you’ve visited this blog before you’ll know th...
Nostalgia for an age yet to come… - 21/Mar/2021 19:24 - 1355 days ago
For some reason, this song came into my head… “…About the future I only can reminisce For what I’ve had ...
Of gods and monsters… - 14/Mar/2021 17:43 - 1362 days ago
Last week work took me to Selsey so after I’d finished, I took the opportunity to walk along the seafront. Just a few mile...
Do you have a case mate? - 07/Mar/2021 15:39 - 1369 days ago
Hilsea Lines on a Sunday afternoon. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve been here over the years, but i...
The Browndown Mushroom…and other portals… - 05/Mar/2021 20:08 - 1371 days ago
A rare opportunity to visit somewhere different as the car needed servicing and the dealership is located in Gosport. So, after ...
PO1…. - 01/Mar/2021 18:49 - 1375 days ago
There’s something quite forlorn about Portsmouth city centre at the moment. Not that Pompey is unique, but I do wonder how...
Accidental Joseph Beuys…. - 26/Feb/2021 10:51 - 1378 days ago
Sometimes there’s no ‘why’ to taking a photograph, beyond the fact that something has caught my eye. And so it...
Southsea Scene/Seen… - 24/Feb/2021 16:40 - 1380 days ago
As is always the case, not everything is black and white. However, the ‘truth’ of today is that this is Southsea. Th...
Shiny Crane, Herring Gull Flyer… - 23/Feb/2021 21:25 - 1381 days ago
After yesterday’s somewhat inconclusive attempt to locate the Green Man, today’s walking holiday in the Costa del ...
In search of the Green Man… - 22/Feb/2021 20:55 - 1382 days ago
“Have you seen Jack-in-the-Green? With his long tail hanging down. He sits quietly under every tree In the folds of his ve...
Liminality… - 21/Feb/2021 19:01 - 1383 days ago
Eastney has always been something of a magnet for me over the years. A certain degree of isolation, or in a certain light desola...
See me… - 16/Feb/2021 22:16 - 1388 days ago
Hilsea Lido remains shut during the current COVID lockdown. Something of a forlorn place at the moment, but in sepia it somehow ...
Vagueness and disorder… - 14/Feb/2021 19:05 - 1390 days ago
“The sea in fact is that state of barbaric vagueness and disorder out of which civilisation has emerged and into which, un...
Almost blue… - 10/Feb/2021 18:47 - 1394 days ago
Not your usual roadside ice. Here’s my theory… Tight bend + standing water + vehicle spray + sub-zero temperatures ...
No More Heroes… - 09/Feb/2021 21:07 - 1395 days ago
Whatever happened to… Hugh Cornwell? Another photograph from the Wickham Festival. First saw the Stranglers in 1977PC, (...
Really free… - 08/Feb/2021 20:08 - 1396 days ago
In the absence of any live music in recent months, a bit of a trawl through the gig archive has thrown up a few pictures that I ...
Landscape re-imagined… - 07/Feb/2021 15:45 - 1397 days ago
The camera never lies…but it can sometimes tell a different story. Photographs stripped of context and colour invite diffe...
A new horizon… - 31/Jan/2021 18:47 - 1404 days ago
A cold day in West Sussex… There’s still beauty to be found in solitude, but I’m guessing that there’s a...
Nighthawks and (would be) diners… - 24/Jan/2021 15:22 - 1411 days ago
Sometimes you just get lucky with a photograph. Nightfall comes quickly in January, but in truth darkness is darkness, whatever ...
It’s so ethereal… - 09/Jan/2021 19:29 - 1426 days ago
In October 2008 I started a part time photography degree at the University of East London. I didn’t finish it, as I ended ...
White chalk… - 04/Jan/2021 19:52 - 1431 days ago
“The chalk that makes up Portsdown Hill was laid down between 100 and 65 million years ago at the bottom of a deep tropica...
Tiers of a clown… - 02/Jan/2021 19:11 - 1433 days ago
A walk along Hilsea Lines, taking in the footbridge linking the Railway Triangle to the Highbury Estate. Looking for clues, sign...
A Blakean Year… - 01/Jan/2021 18:47 - 1434 days ago
So…it’s just after midnight at the beginning of 2021. That moment where Morpheus is preparing to shape dreams from t...
Light on the horizon… - 31/Dec/2020 16:47 - 1435 days ago
So…a strange light over the city this early evening. Maybe its a portent…who knows… Anyway, as darkness slowly...
After the storm, blue skies, calm seas and plain sailing…allegedly. - 27/Dec/2020 16:43 - 1439 days ago
“I paid fifteen million dollars, twelve hundred and seventy-two cents I paid one thousand, two hundred twenty-seven dollar...
20-20 Vision… - 21/Dec/2020 20:28 - 1445 days ago
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky; that is the interi...
Cross process…. - 13/Dec/2020 20:10 - 1453 days ago
Cross processing is when film is developed in a solution which is not made for that specific type of film. The outcome is depend...
Vanishing point… - 06/Dec/2020 15:52 - 1460 days ago
An unusually calm sea at Eastney this morning, but still enough reminders that nature will continue to have her way, regardless ...
Bedhampton revisited… - 29/Nov/2020 16:11 - 1467 days ago
“The past sure is tense they’re heading up for the main event all those people seem to be hell-bent see those people up ...
Broadmarsh Coastal Park - 22/Nov/2020 19:50 - 1474 days ago
To the south of Bedhampton and Havant lies Broadmarsh Coastal Park, overlooking Langstone Harbour. Havant Borough Townscape, La...
Strange parallels…? - 21/Nov/2020 17:15 - 1475 days ago
Those of you that have been following this blog for the past ten or so years might recall that between 2010 and 2012 I was livin...
Another green world… - 19/Nov/2020 19:44 - 1477 days ago
Farlington Marshes again. It always interests me that photographs taken on the same day as each other can convey such a differen...
Concrete solutions… - 15/Nov/2020 17:07 - 1481 days ago
Farlington Marshes is pretty much on my doorstep, being just over a mile away from home. Over the years, I’ve written abou...
End of the pier show (II)… - 01/Nov/2020 19:16 - 1495 days ago
So, here we go again. Clowns to the left of us, rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. A rising tide, and the captain of t...
Sturnus vulgaris… - 25/Oct/2020 19:58 - 1502 days ago
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky; that is the in...
Ascend… - 19/Oct/2020 19:48 - 1508 days ago
For no other reason than I really like this image, but it doesn’t ‘fit’ with the rest… Oh…and I th...
Beyond here lies nothing….? - 19/Oct/2020 19:10 - 1508 days ago
“…Wight. Southeast veering south 5 to 7. Moderate occasionally rough. Occasional rain. Good, occasionally mode...
Not out of the woods yet.. - 11/Oct/2020 19:51 - 1516 days ago
“Who possesses this landscape? The man who bought it, or I who am possessed by it?” The above emanates from a poe...
Rust never sleeps…. - 30/Sep/2020 16:07 - 1527 days ago
Underneath South Parade Pier, Southsea this morning. Sometimes the underside can be just as rewarding as that which is above. Es...
Edifice and architecture… - 30/Sep/2020 15:16 - 1527 days ago
I promise that I don’t go looking for photographs that can be used to illustrate the internal workings of my mind during t...
End of the pier show… - 24/Sep/2020 18:06 - 1533 days ago
The Scene: A coastal town somewhere in England. The citizens are finding it increasingly difficult to believe Bojo the clown. Hi...
Welcome to the machine… - 22/Sep/2020 17:12 - 1535 days ago
On the face of it the machinery of government looks to be fit for purpose. Indeed, some have been moved to call it world beating...
Barely afloat… - 20/Sep/2020 08:37 - 1537 days ago
The thing about photography is that sometimes a different narrative begins to emerge when you review the images that you’ve ta...
Last exit… - 13/Sep/2020 19:22 - 1544 days ago
This is a public service announcement…with guitars… Pompey Punk N’Roll IV… What could be better to raise...
Not everything is black and white… - 06/Sep/2020 16:30 - 1551 days ago
If history can be found in stone and mortar, then the ruins of Titchfield Abbey have borne witness to events stretching back alm...
Coastal sequence… - 31/Aug/2020 13:52 - 1557 days ago
An overcast day with the sun trying its best to break on through, threats of thunderstorms, and rain in the air. Always a good d...
Got live if you want it… - 31/Aug/2020 08:13 - 1557 days ago
Another fine afternoon at the Old House At Home, Milton courtesy of Pompey Punk N’ Roll Garden Party III. Cheers Chris Abb...
Sky, sea, sand, shingle… - 23/Aug/2020 12:18 - 1565 days ago
The Eastney end of Langstone Harbour remains one of my favourite places to visit, whatever the weather. Predictably unpredictabl...
It’s only rock and roll… - 16/Aug/2020 20:03 - 1572 days ago
To misquote Jon Landau… “I saw rock and roll’s future, and it is small outdoor venues and local pubs that...
Territory… - 15/Aug/2020 08:23 - 1573 days ago
Having lived on the chalk slopes to the north of Portsmouth for some 30 years, I can say with a considerable degree of certain...
Bare bones…. - 09/Aug/2020 12:39 - 1579 days ago
Spent the best part of yesterday in Gosport. Nothing particularly thematic in this post… 😉 All comments author’s ...
Fade to grey… - 08/Aug/2020 21:59 - 1580 days ago
It’s hard to imagine, when looking at an empty aggregates wharf, that for many centuries Fareham was a significant seaport. H...
Darkness at the edge of town… - 02/Aug/2020 09:45 - 1586 days ago
Despite appearances, all of these images were taken within the space of around ½ an hour. Photographing in middle of the aftern...
Green… - 26/Jul/2020 19:11 - 1593 days ago
This weekend’s walk took me to Emsworth, a town with a history going back to medieval times. The local museum’s website ...
Flying a (red) kite…? - 25/Jul/2020 16:19 - 1594 days ago
One of the of the outcomes of a more home based existence over the past months has been a sustained and systematic attempt to ...
Seize the infinite blue… - 19/Jul/2020 11:28 - 1600 days ago
Everywhere the sky. As above, so below, reflected in the small pools of sea water left by the tide as it retreats from the stra...
Reflections and shadows… - 13/Jul/2020 17:54 - 1606 days ago
This weekend’s foray around Portsmouth took in the northern section of the North Portsea Island Coastal Defence Scheme at Tip...
Triptych… - 05/Jul/2020 13:55 - 1614 days ago
At a time when those that would govern us seem unable to communicate other than in slogans, sound bites and ambiguity, a reminde...
Missing this….? - 30/Jun/2020 19:51 - 1619 days ago
Every photograph in this post was taken in the past twelve months at a music venue that may not survive the current COVID pand...
Subliminal…. - 29/Jun/2020 08:13 - 1620 days ago
Maybe there’s a story here… Remote surveillance, lockdowns, ambiguous guidance and instruction, machinery of unknown ori...
It’s all a game… - 27/Jun/2020 15:01 - 1622 days ago
Walking northwards out of Portsmouth on the west side of Portsea Island takes you past Whale Island, on a coastal path running a...
Hyper real…? - 14/Jun/2020 16:48 - 1635 days ago
As we begin to emerge, blinking into the ‘new reality’, guided by instruction, intuition or instinct, is this the mo...
Walls come tumbling down…slowly… - 11/Jun/2020 16:53 - 1638 days ago
Eastney, and in particular the fenced off site of the The Fraser Range has been something of a magnet to me over the years. Curr...
Exit stage right… - 30/May/2020 18:26 - 1650 days ago
Sometimes imagination has a way of imposing itself upon reality. Walking along the foreshore from Langstone towards Warblington,...
A miller’s tale…? - 19/May/2020 19:47 - 1661 days ago
Another ‘off the beaten track’ walk last weekend, seeking out historical fragments on the margins. Starting once again at Ol...
A straight line doesn’t always take you where you need to go… - 17/May/2020 19:40 - 1663 days ago
Every now and then the day job creeps into this blog. A few weeks ago I wrote about how COVID guidance of a ‘one size fit...
On the margins… - 08/May/2020 18:41 - 1672 days ago
Today felt like a day to head south to another location within walking distance of home. With the current restrictions on moveme...
Blue Sky Thinking… - 03/May/2020 19:08 - 1677 days ago
Standing in splendid isolation on the chalk scarp of Portsdown Hill is a small copse. Clearly visible from the A27 as you approa...
Another direction… - 26/Apr/2020 17:38 - 1684 days ago
Blessed with good weather, the east, in the form of Bedhampton, beckoned. The village, its population, resources and value are r...
Broken light… - 19/Apr/2020 15:46 - 1691 days ago
I’m still looking for those out of the way places, not too far from home. The places where you come across the occasional dog ...
Don’t fence me in… - 18/Apr/2020 15:25 - 1692 days ago
In recent days Government guidance has been changed to permit people with specific health needs to exercise outside more than on...
Then there is… - 13/Apr/2020 15:52 - 1697 days ago
I’ve been transfixed over the past couple of weeks by reading Nan Shepherd’s “The Living Mountain”, a book written abou...
Then there is no mountain… - 04/Apr/2020 18:57 - 1706 days ago
There’s something richly rewarding about ‘exploring’ a mountainous area that you’ve never been to, in th...
First there is a mountain… - 29/Mar/2020 11:30 - 1712 days ago
Yesterday evening I read the first chapter of Nan Shepherd’s book, “The Living Mountain” in the company of several...
Breathe… - 21/Mar/2020 17:41 - 1720 days ago
If ever there was a need to walk along the shore, to breathe deeply, to watch and listen to the sea, and feel the wind against y...
Sequence… - 15/Mar/2020 20:45 - 1726 days ago
Amidst all of the chaos and uncertainty, as we seemingly head towards a period of enforced self-isolation, a series of photograp...
Walking for a purpose… - 09/Mar/2020 19:54 - 1732 days ago
Over the weekend I completed a twelve mile walking loop beginning and ending at Old Winchester Hill, and taking in some of the t...
Terracing… - 07/Mar/2020 08:19 - 1734 days ago
For those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while, this photograph has certain similarity to some of the photos I t...
Duncan Reid&The Big Heads @ The Barn, Milton. (+Acid Attack&Black Bombers) - 01/Mar/2020 17:56 - 1740 days ago
Spread the word people of Portsmouth and beyond… Garage/trash/punk/rock and roll is alive and kicking at The Barn. Acid At...
Blue… - 26/Feb/2020 21:51 - 1744 days ago
“The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost…” [Rebecca Solnit: “A Fie...
On the beach… - 24/Feb/2020 08:32 - 1746 days ago
There’s something quite surreal about being the midst of Saharan sand which blots out the sun and turns the sky a fiery orange...
Writing on the wall…? - 12/Feb/2020 18:31 - 1758 days ago
Some time in the 1970’s I remember watching a TV programme called “The Stone Tape”, a BBC drama by Nigel Kneale. The b...
Coast… - 10/Feb/2020 21:51 - 1760 days ago
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of...
Arch Drude 2020… - 02/Feb/2020 12:50 - 1768 days ago
The day after ‘getting it done’…what better antidote than Saint Julian @ The Engine Rooms, Southampton. Sanity...
The Fallen Leaves, Eight Rounds Rapid&The Dinz… (Part II) - 26/Jan/2020 20:41 - 1775 days ago
And so to the end of the beginning…. Probably should have posted this first. The prequel to the magnificent Fallen Leaves&...
The Fallen Leaves, Eight Rounds Rapid&The Dinz…(Part I) - 26/Jan/2020 16:31 - 1775 days ago
Not quite an existentialist manifesto, but proof that a £10 admission charge can take you down some interesting pathways. Or ...
Writing on the wall… - 25/Jan/2020 09:20 - 1776 days ago
Came across this in Southampton the other day. #truth 😉 Also twinned with Bognor Regis…...
The Bellrays @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth… - 16/Jan/2020 21:06 - 1785 days ago
So…here we are. First gig of 2020, and one hell of a benchmark for the rest of the year. Kicking off their UK tour at the ...
Bird or whale….? - 01/Jan/2020 10:27 - 1800 days ago
Waking, he stared at the object at the foot of his bed Eyesight failing, and the memory of why he was here gone, he struggled to...
Waiting… - 29/Dec/2019 12:55 - 1803 days ago
So…we have made our mark on the paper. We have made our choice… We have… And what must we do now…? We wa...
The 99… - 01/Dec/2019 10:51 - 1831 days ago
It seems that piers are starting to be something of a regular subject on this blog… Partly because I have the good fortune...
Apparently it’s manifesto time… - 24/Nov/2019 20:08 - 1838 days ago
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime,...
(Don’t)…diss…a…pier… - 08/Nov/2019 20:04 - 1854 days ago
“A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.” [J...
The Cult @ Portsmouth Guildhall… - 30/Oct/2019 18:24 - 1863 days ago
Ah…Sonic Temple…Where did 30 years go…Who cares… Magnificent….Relevant… Listen… Read&#...
39…In memoriam… - 27/Oct/2019 08:28 - 1866 days ago
‘Beyond here lies nothing but chillness, hostility, (the) frozen waves of an ice-hard sea…’ [Ovid: “Poems from exile...
John Murry and Curse of Lono - 16/Oct/2019 21:34 - 1877 days ago
Good beer….check! Band drinking in the pub beforehand…check! A promoter that values the music and musicians…...
Pintar esta pared… - 13/Oct/2019 15:44 - 1880 days ago
In any town or city I’m always on the look out for street art and/or graffiti. Sometimes a detour down a side street is needed...
Los Boliches - 11/Oct/2019 18:39 - 1882 days ago
Something about mad dogs and Englishmen… Whatever…empty streets for sure, but still something to see…...
A geometry of sorts… - 11/Oct/2019 08:02 - 1882 days ago
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much ...
Carpe diem baby… - 01/Oct/2019 20:20 - 1892 days ago
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man i...
Little Barrie @ The Old Barn, Milton… - 22/Sep/2019 13:51 - 1901 days ago
“From a smokey lounge in the distant past fast forward to overdriven bass and guitars from the future is where ‘Death expres...
Coastal squeeze… - 20/Sep/2019 06:26 - 1903 days ago
Not the name of some up and coming new band…although “…hello Portsmouth…we are Coastal Squeeze and this one...
Dungeness… - 14/Sep/2019 18:39 - 1909 days ago
Two nuclear power stations, (one now decommissioned), a vast expanse of shingle beach, out on a limb, boat carcasses and rusting...
One Eyed Jacks @ 35…. - 13/Sep/2019 05:54 - 1910 days ago
Spear of Destiny @ The 1865, Southampton. Revisiting “One Eyed Jacks” …where did the last 35 years go? Magnificent...
Everything that is, casts a shadow… - 05/Sep/2019 19:01 - 1918 days ago
“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow…” From “The Hollow Men”: TS Elio...
Ben Poole @ The Maltings, Farnham… - 31/Aug/2019 11:11 - 1923 days ago
Great blues, great guitarist, great band, great venue…nothing else to add…. Ben Poole website Boogaloo Promotions we...
Walk in silence… - 30/Aug/2019 18:46 - 1924 days ago
The ghosts in the machine that is New Order make their presence felt throughout. And so Victorious 2019 comes to an end… S...
Packet of three…. - 26/Aug/2019 18:58 - 1928 days ago
One of the great things about festivals is coming across bands that you haven’t heard or know much about. For sure you can...
Ziggy Marley @ Victorious… - 26/Aug/2019 13:09 - 1928 days ago
“See dem fake leaders In the place of power they sit From religion to politics Riding a wave of fear Starting fires, they ...
You can’t always get what you want… - 26/Aug/2019 12:32 - 1928 days ago
But if you try some time, you might get…The Bog Rolling Stones. ”I met a gin soaked bar room queen in Portsea…” ...
Messages to you… - 24/Aug/2019 09:29 - 1930 days ago
Still relevant… The Specials @ Victorious… “I see a clinic full of cynics Who want to twist the peoples’ wri...
Welcome to the machine… - 19/Aug/2019 17:12 - 1935 days ago
“Haven’t we been here before?” Yes, but it is important that we hear the same words endlessly. Those that govern us ...
Reverse Rett… - 18/Aug/2019 07:54 - 1936 days ago
Music still has the power to raise awareness and effect change. Last night at the Wedgewood Rooms a group of Portsmouth musician...
Light on the horizon… - 02/Aug/2019 10:13 - 1952 days ago
At a time when those who purport to bring us ‘news’ see fit to declare that the ideas of a young woman of 16 are not worthy ...
Alora - 01/Aug/2019 14:57 - 1953 days ago
A journey of 1000 miles starts with going in the right direction… A choice of two directions from a station with only a li...
Blind men on revolving chairs… - 30/Jul/2019 13:01 - 1955 days ago
Look back far enough in this blog and you’ll find photographs and thoughts from my time in Nepal. For the time that I was ther...
From here to eternity…? - 30/Jul/2019 08:55 - 1955 days ago
“Will the day never come?” “Never. We must wait here for an eternity. There is no beginning, nor end to this journey. We a...
The Delta Bombers… - 21/Jul/2019 11:19 - 1964 days ago
…at the Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth. Timeless…....
Calling Elvis…? - 21/Jul/2019 10:48 - 1964 days ago
Danny ‘O’ and the Astrotones @ The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth. “Do the Astro…” You know you want to…. 🙂...
Omen….? - 18/Jul/2019 07:16 - 1967 days ago
“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdo...
Not dark yet… - 14/Jul/2019 15:48 - 1971 days ago
Obviously 5 believers showed up at Hyde Park in their boots of Spanish leather, ready to hear you both roll another number. They...
High Rise… - 13/Jul/2019 19:40 - 1972 days ago
“These people were content with their environment, and felt no particular objection to an impersonal steel and concrete landsc...
Remnants…. - 09/Jul/2019 17:44 - 1976 days ago
This series of three photographs is a sequel to a post I made earlier in the year about the use of plastics in farming. I went ...
Billy Bragg @The Wedgewood Rooms… - 06/Jul/2019 07:13 - 1979 days ago
5th July 2019: A socialism of the heart…. 🙂 Their faces shone and they were gone and I was left alone I walked these an...
Edifice… - 03/Jul/2019 17:07 - 1982 days ago
In the future we will look back with fondness to the monuments that we created to honour the state craft of our parliamentarians...
Outfall… - 30/Jun/2019 19:17 - 1985 days ago
At the margins of cities are some of the things we take for granted. Unloved and often unwanted, unless they can be located R...
Product placement… - 27/Jun/2019 14:40 - 1988 days ago
So…in the midst of an increasing societal culture of blame, maybe its time to take a little personal responsibility…...
A symmetry of sorts… - 23/Jun/2019 15:59 - 1992 days ago
Been hanging on to these photos for a few weeks now…other stuff sort of ‘happened’. Anyway, these pictures a...
Tower… - 22/Jun/2019 18:56 - 1993 days ago
“We shall build a tower that will reach to the stars!” Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had t...
Not everything is black and white… - 16/Jun/2019 18:47 - 1999 days ago
“One day we will all become ghosts. Frozen moments in time. Fragments of someone else’s memory. He thought about the absence...
Kris Kristofferson and The Strangers @ De Oosterpoort, Groningen - 14/Jun/2019 19:34 - 2001 days ago
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…” Another storyteller from another time…....
Towards the other Long Island… - 14/Jun/2019 18:43 - 2001 days ago
So….it goes without saying that, if you are going to visit a good friend in northern Netherlands, the first thing you shou...
Is this land safe? - 26/May/2019 07:08 - 2020 days ago
On the face of it, something of an odd question. A track leading onto chalk down….a familiar landscape here in the south o...
Blind bliss… - 19/May/2019 17:38 - 2027 days ago
Came across this today whilst out walking. It’s somewhat rambling, and maybe a little confusing. It looks like its been th...
Lost albums from the other side… - 07/May/2019 15:22 - 2039 days ago
On the basis that these days, images can mean whatever you want them to mean, and truth is lies, whilst lies are truth… Pe...
This is a public service announcement, with guitar… - 06/May/2019 06:59 - 2040 days ago
Every once in a while you are lucky enough to catch a support artist who you just blows you away. And so it was with Emily Cap...
Different lens…different perspective…. - 05/May/2019 16:00 - 2041 days ago
Glen Matlock & Earl Slick @ The Haunt, Brighton…Revisited...
Glen Matlock @ The Haunt, Brighton… - 04/May/2019 07:09 - 2042 days ago
“What did you do in the punk wars daddy?” “I can’t remember…its all so sepia…” Who needs history though, w...
Arresting images… - 20/Apr/2019 17:05 - 2056 days ago
“Here they come now, here they come A pulling you away There are powers at play more forceful than we Come over here and sit d...
Triptych… - 16/Apr/2019 17:17 - 2060 days ago
“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, invitin...
Legend…. - 14/Apr/2019 15:27 - 2062 days ago
So…an interesting line-up at Brighton Dome. Billed as ‘Drum Legends’. To be honest, the main attraction for ...
Ship of fools… - 01/Apr/2019 22:08 - 2075 days ago
And so it continues… “Went to see the captain, strangest I could find, Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line. I ...
In de Stijl of the night…? - 27/Mar/2019 20:50 - 2080 days ago
Total abstraction using the most basic design components of vertical and horizontal lines and primary colours. Precision and uni...
The Knife Angel… - 24/Mar/2019 23:08 - 2083 days ago
The Knife Angel currently stands outside Coventry Cathedral: a sculpture fashioned from some 100,000 knives removed from UK stre...
Mannahatta… - 17/Mar/2019 15:35 - 2090 days ago
Walt Whitman wrote Mannahatta in 1900. (Hard to imagine that before then, New York was a quiet wooded island called Mannahatta...
(Take a) Proper Gander… - 14/Mar/2019 06:45 - 2093 days ago
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in...
Urban landscape… - 09/Mar/2019 15:53 - 2098 days ago
It means whatever you want it to mean…. “The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat i...
One day we will all become ghosts… - 08/Mar/2019 18:18 - 2099 days ago
The first time Ricky ventured into Central Park, he was struck by its emptiness. Yes it was cold, but the sun was warm on his ba...
Oxford Girl… - 28/Feb/2019 20:20 - 2107 days ago
Without whom…etc x...
This ain’t no Mudd Club…. - 20/Feb/2019 20:16 - 2115 days ago
“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco This ain’t no fooling around This ain’t no Mudd Club, or...
Just a thought… - 11/Feb/2019 19:13 - 2124 days ago
At a time when walls and hard borders seem to be uppermost in the minds of some people, I found myself thinking of bridges…...
Physical Graffiti… - 11/Feb/2019 02:47 - 2124 days ago
96-98 St Marks Place, East Village… Look familiar….? “…I know to trip is just to fall I used to rock it, som...
Empire State of mind… - 10/Feb/2019 02:14 - 2125 days ago
“In New York, Concrete jungle where dreams are made of There’s nothin’ you can’t do Now you’re in New ...
In dreams… - 06/Feb/2019 13:01 - 2129 days ago
So I get a call from my agent. He says “…hey Ricky, I got you a part in something just off Broadway. It’s mostly improvise...
New York Tendaberry…? - 05/Feb/2019 02:46 - 2130 days ago
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” …and so it came to pass that in my 60th year, I get to go for the ...
Not everything is black and white…. - 02/Jan/2019 20:56 - 2164 days ago
Selective colour. Could almost be a metaphor for the next 80 days or so… So, clearly the country is open for businessR...
Everything is broken… - 05/Dec/2018 11:15 - 2192 days ago
“Broken lines, broken strings Broken threads, broken springs Broken idols, broken heads People sleeping in broken beds Ain...
Curse of Lono… - 24/Nov/2018 15:25 - 2203 days ago
A cold Thursday evening warms a little on arrival at the Railway Inn, Winchester. Whats not to like when the band are drinking ...
Phoenix nights…? - 10/Nov/2018 13:04 - 2217 days ago
“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himsel...
Resist…! - 09/Nov/2018 19:34 - 2218 days ago
“On stage exorcism with you…” [“Limited Edition Heart”: Gruff Rhys] Without doubt one of the gig...
Rock and roll excess…? - 07/Nov/2018 17:18 - 2220 days ago
If you advertise, they (may) come… A new project of sorts… here...
To hold infinity… - 31/Oct/2018 11:19 - 2227 days ago
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hou...
Thank you NHS.. - 06/Oct/2018 23:05 - 2252 days ago
“The collective principle asserts that the resources of medical skill and the apparatus of healing shall be placed at the disp...
This is a public service announcement….with guitars…. - 03/Sep/2018 17:06 - 2285 days ago
…and a brass section. Offbeat Offensive…. Pompey’s finest third generation ska band…accept no substitute...
PINS… - 27/Aug/2018 16:36 - 2292 days ago
More from Victorious…25 August 2018 PINS… ‘Find’ of the day… Check them out here… “Ser...
Lean into the light…. - 26/Aug/2018 07:10 - 2293 days ago
Paul Weller @ Victorious, Portsmouth. 25 August 2018 …’nuff said…...
Power in the darkness…? - 20/Aug/2018 20:50 - 2299 days ago
“Power in the darkness Frightening lies from the other side Power in the darkness Stand up and fight for your rights…...
Huzzah…..! - 08/Aug/2018 17:20 - 2311 days ago
Ferocious Dog @ Wickham Festival: Saturday 4th August “…they are the music business’s worst nightmare – a great band...
Fake photos….. - 14/Jul/2018 15:43 - 2336 days ago
“I think the British people like me a lot. They like me so much the police have had to build barriers everywhere I go to s...
This could be the last time… - 23/May/2018 12:37 - 2388 days ago
London Stadium. Dateline 22 May 2018. A legitimate reason to run onto the West Ham pitch…! So…£90+ and the obligato...
Code of the road… - 16/May/2018 21:06 - 2395 days ago
“They call him Snake, he minds his own business He got his own sound, we’re glad that he’s with us…” “Co...
Chalk… - 07/May/2018 17:56 - 2404 days ago
“White chalk hills are all I’ve known White chalk hills will rot my bones….” [PJ Harvey: “Whi...
Thee Hypnotics… - 15/Apr/2018 14:45 - 2426 days ago
“Thee Hypnotics care only for their own generic past and frenetic present. The future doesn’t even get a look in… ...
Tide/Tied…. - 08/Apr/2018 19:47 - 2433 days ago
How often do we look without really seeing? We might think that we ‘know’ intimately our immediate environment. But ...
In defence of small gods… - 28/Jan/2018 20:31 - 2503 days ago
Still trying to find the words, but maybe the pictures speak in their own language? All I know is that you can lose yourself i...
Tree… - 10/Dec/2017 20:41 - 2552 days ago
Under unending interrogation by wind Tortured by huge scaldings of light Tried to confess all but could not Bleed a word Strippe...
Landscape as memory… - 26/Nov/2017 17:29 - 2566 days ago
Nearby where I live are Hilsea Lines, a series fortifications, built to protect the northern approach to Portsmouth from attack...
Look… - 01/Oct/2017 18:40 - 2622 days ago
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” [Jack Kerouac. “The Dharma Bums”] Beauty is no...
Of…or from…? - 17/Sep/2017 20:43 - 2636 days ago
“To be of means to listen. To commit to being around, to a robust pragmatism as to what this wider murmuring may require o...
Industrial re-evolution…? - 29/Aug/2017 20:07 - 2655 days ago
“Imagine the impossible, then create it…” “The clothes you’re wearing, the room, the house, the ci...
Hopetown…[ii] - 26/Jul/2017 17:53 - 2689 days ago
For as long as he could remember, Ricky had been looking for something, but in truth he couldn’t really say what it was...
Hopetown…[i] - 16/Jul/2017 19:19 - 2699 days ago
Ricky was holding court at his local, “The Vaults”- a sometime music venue in a rundown part of town. Still a watering hole ...
Foggy notion… - 19/Apr/2017 20:17 - 2787 days ago
“This melancholy London — I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetual...
A Modern Day Parable? - 21/Feb/2017 20:36 - 2844 days ago
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to c...
Out of season…. - 20/Feb/2017 17:27 - 2845 days ago
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of...
What’s the story….? - 15/Aug/2016 19:57 - 3034 days ago
“I’ve asked many famous photographers to help me edit and they say, ‘Well, this photo goes with this one, and what’s the...
Not everything is black and white… - 25/Jun/2016 14:32 - 3085 days ago
Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault? Schemes of retirement sown In youth, and ‘mid the busy world k...
A Guide To Modern Day Political Leadership and Governance… - 23/May/2016 19:22 - 3118 days ago
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you wan...
Water and air… - 21/May/2016 16:20 - 3120 days ago
“Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very...
Everything is broken… - 10/Apr/2016 18:53 - 3161 days ago
“Broken bottles broken plates Broken switches broken gates Broken dishes broken parts Streets are filled with broken heart...
Washed up… - 28/Mar/2016 17:17 - 3174 days ago
In 2015 the Marine Conservation Society reported that 3,298 items of rubbish were picked up per kilometre of beach surveyed. T...
A different kind of blue…? - 20/Mar/2016 19:44 - 3182 days ago
“Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the Houses – Past the Headlands – Into deep Eternity – Bred ...
What does it all mean…? - 18/Mar/2016 20:16 - 3184 days ago
“If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, t...
Deep? - 13/Mar/2016 19:27 - 3189 days ago
“People on the land think of the sea as a void, an emptiness haunted by mythological hazards. The sea marks the end of thi...
Roar… - 06/Mar/2016 13:03 - 3196 days ago
“The Beasts that be In wood and waste Now sit and see Nor ride nor haste…” The Lion: William Morris Som...
Under African skies… - 01/Mar/2016 20:13 - 3201 days ago
“All along the river, Chelmsford’s army lay asleep Come to crush the children of Mageba Come to exact the realm̵...
Clouds….. - 08/Feb/2016 22:01 - 3223 days ago
“There cannot be a single thing which is not cloud. Cathedrals have it in that tree of boulders and stained glass with Bib...
Hope is the thing with feathers… - 29/Dec/2015 18:42 - 3264 days ago
To everyone who stopped by over the past year. Here’s to 2016. Found this whilst wandering around Southsea, stuck onto the...
Vive le rock… - 08/Dec/2015 22:30 - 3285 days ago
“Sing you little fuckers Sing like you’ve got no choice…” Come On/Let’s Go [Paul Weller] Possibly ...
The Waterboys @ Portsmouth Guildhall - 15/Nov/2015 20:17 - 3308 days ago
Possibly one of my favourite gig photographs… This is Steve Wickham, who Mike Scott describes as the world’s greates...
Up there is just a sea of possibilities…. - 01/Nov/2015 15:33 - 3322 days ago
Patti Smith crops up from time to time on these pages… :-) 40 years since the release of Horses...still the most played ...
Too much monkey business…. - 25/Oct/2015 11:32 - 3329 days ago
Some are born to greatness. Others have it thrust upon them. Whilst others…well they just are. Ricky was holding court at his ...
The Real Macaw…. - 13/Oct/2015 14:47 - 3341 days ago
Its beginning to feel like valediction time as yet another songwriter with attitude, edge, venom and songs that mean something l...
Anger is an energy…. - 05/Oct/2015 14:37 - 3349 days ago
Still got it…. Public Image Ltd @ The Engine Rooms, Southampton…. Confrontational, loud, and in a venue that is R...
Discuss…. - 28/Sep/2015 13:10 - 3356 days ago
A few random thoughts following a couple of days of wandering through Shoreditch over the weekend … “Some people become ...
59%… - 13/Sep/2015 18:38 - 3371 days ago
“For the past couple of decades the Labour leadership has looked upon the various nascent social movements that have emerg...
Life is about rhythm… - 07/Sep/2015 19:25 - 3377 days ago
“Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are….R...
The flame still burns… - 06/Sep/2015 16:55 - 3378 days ago
“I was wrong about God. Turns out he likes that 70’s stuff after all. So it didn’t piss down and they played f...
Imagine… - 24/Aug/2015 20:09 - 3391 days ago
“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photogr...
Journey…. - 11/Aug/2015 08:23 - 3404 days ago
“Though we travel the world over to find beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we will find it not”. [Ralph Waldo ...
Calling Elvis… - 29/Jul/2015 13:41 - 3417 days ago
House of Lords….home of the anti-Elvis? “Elvis is in everybody out there. Everybody’s got Elvis in them! Every...
Trailwalker update…. - 13/Jul/2015 16:11 - 3433 days ago
Just two weeks to go now, and our final ‘big walk’, to get a few more miles under our feet, and more specifically, t...
Desire lines…. - 08/Jul/2015 14:40 - 3438 days ago
This post is primarily a vehicle for (hopefully) raising funds for Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust. Four of us, plus our 2 ma...
A modern parable…..? - 05/Jul/2015 19:48 - 3441 days ago
“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians ...
Keep music live… - 16/Jun/2015 19:54 - 3460 days ago
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” [Aldous Huxley, Music at Night (193...
This is a public service announcement…. - 02/Jun/2015 17:53 - 3474 days ago
Whaddya mean , you’ve never heard of Terry Reid… “There’s something Shakespearean about Terry Reid. The...
Maintain the momentum… - 25/May/2015 19:38 - 3482 days ago
I make absolutely no apology for keeping Nepal a live issue on this blog…. It’s now just one month to the day from t...
Still life with sunflowers (and shopping trollies)…. - 17/May/2015 17:01 - 3490 days ago
Jonathan Richman w/the Modern Lovers: “Vincent Van Gogh” “Well, have you heard about the painter, Vincent van ...
But what does it all mean… - 14/May/2015 19:33 - 3493 days ago
“…People who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their p...
Something wicked this way comes…. - 10/May/2015 20:12 - 3497 days ago
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” [Aristotle] So…here’s what we can look forward to… R...
Give…an update. - 08/May/2015 20:30 - 3499 days ago
In May 2014 I wrote of my ongoing links with CSRC, the land rights organisation that I worked with whilst living in Nepal. At th...
Can I have a word… - 30/Apr/2015 17:41 - 3507 days ago
Change the name, but not the story…a continuation……. Regular as clockwork, Joe knocks on the door. The slow, s...
Give… - 25/Apr/2015 23:49 - 3512 days ago
So…where to begin? Here I sit, safe in my home in Portsmouth, watching the news unfold. For a brief moment Nepal becomes h...
Welcome to the machine… - 19/Apr/2015 20:40 - 3518 days ago
“Regardless of how fast GDP grows, an economic system that fails to deliver gains for most of its citizens, and in which a ris...
Gimme some truth… - 12/Apr/2015 20:06 - 3525 days ago
“I’m sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites All I want is the truth ...
The wisdom of bridges… - 29/Mar/2015 16:17 - 3539 days ago
“The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores…” [Mehmet Murat Il...
Bert knew things… - 25/Mar/2015 20:01 - 3543 days ago
A story of sorts….a prologue maybe… Bert knew things. It wasn’t always apparent though, since for most of the ...
Epitaph… - 08/Mar/2015 20:52 - 3560 days ago
“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the ...
Vote… - 01/Mar/2015 17:00 - 3567 days ago
Came across these obscured windows in Havant earlier today… For some reason, the following quote from Yes Minister came i...
A sense of place… - 15/Feb/2015 21:05 - 3581 days ago
“The Severn was water, the water was mud whose eddies stood and did not fill, the kind of water that’s thicker than bloo...
Beached… - 07/Feb/2015 16:37 - 3589 days ago
“We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?” [From Tom Stoppard: “Rosencrantz and ...
Art for art’s sake…. - 01/Feb/2015 17:54 - 3595 days ago
“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social fu...
In a dream I heard Gabriel’s trumpet… - 30/Jan/2015 20:20 - 3597 days ago
“I saw the feet of pilgrims bleeding I saw whole cities drowning I saw whole armies dying…” [Mark Lanegan: ...
A sign of the times…. - 24/Jan/2015 21:07 - 3603 days ago
At a time when the comedy roadshow that is Davos is providing a platform for the “great and the good” (sic) to agoni...
Tree of life….? - 18/Jan/2015 20:35 - 3609 days ago
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They...
Don’t follow leaders… - 13/Jan/2015 21:59 - 3614 days ago
A bit of a detour…but hey, it’s my blog… :-) 50 years ago, on 14 January 1965, Blind Boy Grunt recorded this&#...
Marsh…. - 11/Jan/2015 17:45 - 3616 days ago
“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great sal...
I’ve got a golden ticket… - 31/Dec/2014 19:47 - 3627 days ago
“…I’ve got a golden ticket I’ve got a golden chance to make my way And with a golden ticket, it’s ...
I’ve got a golden ticket… - 31/Dec/2014 19:47 - 3627 days ago
“…I’ve got a golden ticket I’ve got a golden chance to make my way And with a golden ticket, it’s ...
Learning the trees… - 27/Dec/2014 16:52 - 3631 days ago
“Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn The language of the trees…” [Howard Nemerov: “Learnin...
Learning the trees… - 27/Dec/2014 16:52 - 3631 days ago
“Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn The language of the trees…” [Howard Nemerov: “Learnin...
Towards a new Waste Land… - 14/Dec/2014 17:07 - 3644 days ago
“The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind Crosses the brown land...
Towards a new Waste Land… - 14/Dec/2014 17:07 - 3644 days ago
“The river’s tent is broken: the last fingers of leaf Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind Crosses the brown land...
Shine… - 07/Dec/2014 21:22 - 3651 days ago
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the...
Shine… - 07/Dec/2014 21:22 - 3651 days ago
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the...
We are not numbers….. - 06/Dec/2014 18:35 - 3652 days ago
“We are not numbers We are not shadows We are humanity in all of its guises We cannot be reduced to simple cliches We are ...
We are not numbers….. - 06/Dec/2014 18:35 - 3652 days ago
“We are not numbers We are not shadows We are humanity in all of its guises We cannot be reduced to simple cliches We are ...
To the wind….. - 01/Dec/2014 22:12 - 3657 days ago
After a weekend where reason appears to have gone out of the window, where greed and baser instincts seem to be the principle d...
To the wind….. - 01/Dec/2014 22:12 - 3657 days ago
After a weekend where reason appears to have gone out of the window, where greed and baser instincts seem to be the principle d...
Go not to the temple… - 24/Nov/2014 20:22 - 3664 days ago
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become” [Bhagavad Gita] “Go not to the tem...
Go not to the temple… - 24/Nov/2014 20:22 - 3664 days ago
“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become” [Bhagavad Gita] “Go not to the tem...
Decay and neglect….. - 22/Nov/2014 21:00 - 3666 days ago
There’s something of an emerging theme to my photographs these days. I’m increasingly drawn to decay, and in particu...
Decay and neglect….. - 22/Nov/2014 21:00 - 3666 days ago
There’s something of an emerging theme to my photographs these days. I’m increasingly drawn to decay, and in particu...
The eyes have it… - 17/Nov/2014 18:33 - 3671 days ago
A simple truth… “The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.” [Rabindranath Ta...
The eyes have it… - 17/Nov/2014 18:33 - 3671 days ago
A simple truth… “The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed.” [Rabindranath Ta...
All things must pass… - 16/Nov/2014 19:20 - 3672 days ago
“We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact wi...
All things must pass… - 16/Nov/2014 19:20 - 3672 days ago
“We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact wi...
A meditation of sorts…. - 13/Nov/2014 02:15 - 3675 days ago
Farewell Nepal…. Find your own silent space within the universe The one that brings peace from solitude Create your own ri...
On reflection… - 10/Nov/2014 10:24 - 3678 days ago
Returning to Kathmandu, albeit for just a few days, has been a source of some reflection. To walk in familiar places is to call ...
Wayside shrines… - 04/Nov/2014 13:59 - 3684 days ago
One of the great joys of being back in Nepal…. I have passed you day by day Seen you anointed with flowers Offered gifts o...
परिवर्तनशील (अनित्य) - 04/Nov/2014 05:06 - 3684 days ago
Change and thus impermanent… The sun always rises from the kettle, and sets in an empty glass, the earth I inhabit goes on...
Ascend… - 02/Nov/2014 03:23 - 3686 days ago
“The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to ...
Crossing the threshold… - 01/Nov/2014 17:07 - 3687 days ago
Upon reflection… Crossing the border into Nepal from India and already there’s a feeling of familiarity and, dare I ...
Tales of the riverbank… - 29/Oct/2014 11:11 - 3690 days ago
To sít amongst the thousands of Indians that journey to Haridwar to witness the Ganga aarti ceremony at Haar-ki-Paris ghat is a...
Playthings - 27/Oct/2014 08:55 - 3692 days ago
Sometimes the things that we wish for fail to make us happy. Sometimes a different perspective is needed… “Child, ho...
Taxi…. - 26/Oct/2014 03:59 - 3693 days ago
“It’s when your driver starts to read about Gandhi and the Buddha that it’s time to wet your pants.” [From Ar...
At the fourth goat, it will be 12.45 am precisely… - 14/Oct/2014 19:21 - 3705 days ago
Originally posted on Ideas & images from Portsmouth and beyond:Namaste Well, here I am again then. On line intermittently fo...
At the fourth goat, it will be 12.45 am precisely… - 14/Oct/2014 19:21 - 3705 days ago
Originally posted on Ideas & images from Portsmouth and beyond:Namaste Well, here I am again then. On line intermittently fo...
A poem for our times…? - 05/Oct/2014 18:23 - 3714 days ago
“I heard an Angel singing When the day was springing, “Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world’s release.” Thus ...
A poem for our times…? - 05/Oct/2014 18:23 - 3714 days ago
“I heard an Angel singing When the day was springing, “Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world’s release.” Thus ...
Niets is verloren… - 24/Sep/2014 19:32 - 3725 days ago
….Nothing is lost. I have a box of postcards which were acquired by my Dad whilst serving in the Royal Armoured Corps duri...
Niets is verloren… - 24/Sep/2014 19:32 - 3725 days ago
….Nothing is lost. I have a box of postcards which were acquired by my Dad whilst serving in the Royal Armoured Corps duri...
The order of the universe is (partly) restored…. - 09/Sep/2014 19:04 - 3740 days ago
[Or.. Coventry City FC return to the Ricoh] “My name is John, and I’m a Coventry City supporter….” The...
The order of the universe is (partly) restored…. - 09/Sep/2014 19:04 - 3740 days ago
[Or.. Coventry City FC return to the Ricoh] “My name is John, and I’m a Coventry City supporter….” The...
Reet Petite and Gone…? - 31/Aug/2014 19:00 - 3749 days ago
…live, for one last time at The Old House At Home, Milton. (Or so they say….) Real ale, good company, live music...
Reet Petite and Gone…? - 31/Aug/2014 19:00 - 3749 days ago
Live, for one last time at The Old House At Home, Milton. Real ale, good company, live music…and a washboard. Life is goo...
Take left turns as much as possible… - 26/Aug/2014 19:22 - 3754 days ago
“Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always ca...
Take left turns as much as possible… - 26/Aug/2014 19:22 - 3754 days ago
“Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always ca...
That flashbulb moment…. - 25/Aug/2014 10:31 - 3755 days ago
“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s ...
That flashbulb moment…. - 25/Aug/2014 10:31 - 3755 days ago
“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s ...
Songs in the key of life…. - 17/Aug/2014 16:56 - 3763 days ago
Boom… Wickham Festival, 2014 “In this olden world Harder than a gemstone would it be to change Once a youthful garde...
Songs in the key of life…. - 17/Aug/2014 16:56 - 3763 days ago
Boom… Wickham Festival, 2014 “In this olden world Harder than a gemstone would it be to change Once a youthful garde...
More light… - 23/Jul/2014 19:53 - 3788 days ago
And so…it’s time to move on…. Two years working as a local authority social worker in adult social care, and t...
More light… - 23/Jul/2014 19:53 - 3788 days ago
And so…it’s time to move on…. Two years working as a local authority social worker in adult social care, and t...
Ideology… - 10/Jul/2014 20:23 - 3801 days ago
Southampton Guildhall: 10 July 2014 There’s plenty of news coverage about today’s strike/public sector protest…...
Ideology… - 10/Jul/2014 20:23 - 3801 days ago
Southampton Guildhall: 10 July 2014 There’s plenty of news coverage about today’s strike/public sector protest…...
A garden of earthly delights…? - 29/Jun/2014 15:36 - 3812 days ago
A modern-day triptych…. Found these today whilst wandering through Portsmouth. Stuck onto a boarded up building…al...
It’s a sign… - 29/Jun/2014 10:03 - 3812 days ago
Increasing levels of homelessness, low wages and zero hours contracts, hostile architecture…and financial corporations tha...
All memory is suspect… - 23/Jun/2014 21:10 - 3818 days ago
Ancient monument against a yellowing sky Sepia vision of a bygone age… But what if these walls could tell their story Shar...
Available light… - 22/Jun/2014 18:39 - 3819 days ago
I love the way that light prises open the darkest corner…casts shadows of uncertainty…reveals texture and substance ...
Better days…? - 21/Jun/2014 20:33 - 3820 days ago
Sometimes a photograph just is…the lucky juxtaposition of things. A pick-up truck…ice-cream in the back…a ra...
Fade to nothing… - 09/Jun/2014 19:49 - 3832 days ago
Found graffiti in Southsea…. Time for a bit of Rilke… “…Other people change faces incredibly fast, put on one af...
Fallen…. - 26/May/2014 13:57 - 3846 days ago
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptin...
Watching the river flow… - 22/May/2014 19:58 - 3850 days ago
“The sectors of a city…are decipherable, but the personal meaning they have for us is incommunicable…” [Guy ...
जय भुमि - 18/May/2014 18:53 - 3854 days ago
Despite being away from Nepal for some two years now, I still maintain links with CSRC, the land rights organisation that I work...
Fighting like the flowers… - 04/May/2014 19:13 - 3868 days ago
“…Every man has his flower thought he knows it or not from the mighty old English rose to the humble forget-me-not…...
Jumpers for goalposts…. - 20/Apr/2014 10:11 - 3882 days ago
What…you’ve never heard of the Meon Valley Sunday Football League, or the Pink Cup? Shame on you glory hunters, wit...
Full fathom five… - 13/Apr/2014 16:14 - 3889 days ago
“…The sea is our pathway to each other, and to everyone else. The sea is our endless saga, the sea is our most power...
Not quite April fools… - 04/Apr/2014 17:46 - 3898 days ago
We can neither confirm, nor deny that your every word is listened to We can neither confirm, nor deny that we are watching your ...
“The Salvador Dali of music….” - 28/Mar/2014 16:46 - 3905 days ago
…and who’s gonna argue with Keith Richards… Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry…78 years young …and st...
A tale of two Britains…. - 17/Mar/2014 21:25 - 3916 days ago
“Inequality is a growing problem in the UK. While austerity measures in Britain continue to hit the poorest families harde...
Memory is life… - 12/Mar/2014 21:05 - 3921 days ago
“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.” [From "Age of...
Shadows and ghosts… - 01/Mar/2014 19:10 - 3932 days ago
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on eart...
Paris unadorned… - 28/Feb/2014 19:57 - 3933 days ago
In 1946 Ed Clark photographed Paris for LIFE magazine. The accompanying narrative described the photographs as “… ...
Down in the Cellars…. - 26/Feb/2014 16:21 - 3935 days ago
Double header @ The Cellars, Eastney…. Keeping music live ….what else is there to say…. First up, The Surfin&#...
How much these walls have seen… - 16/Feb/2014 16:59 - 3945 days ago
“Winter will pass, spring will come again, and then you won’t be here any more, you’ll be pulled down. How muc...
Requiem for a starfish… - 09/Feb/2014 16:13 - 3952 days ago
“Some storm far out, I thought, had ravaged the sea, stirred up its bed, sent the whole mess flying to shore. At my feet I...
And another thing…. - 02/Feb/2014 17:47 - 3959 days ago
500,000 people in the UK are reliant on food aid, Tesco admits to having generated 28,500 tonnes of food waste at its stores and...
Mekon says… - 01/Feb/2014 20:30 - 3960 days ago
“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing&...
A work in progress… - 26/Jan/2014 12:45 - 3966 days ago
“The village of Wymering… lies about half a mile west of Cosham…. The church and vicarage are on the north sid...
Can blue men sing the whites…? - 11/Jan/2014 16:46 - 3981 days ago
Hell yeah... “Gimme dat harp boy Ain’t no fat man’s toy You hear what he is saying You hear he’s sayin...
Dignity and choice… - 04/Jan/2014 19:53 - 3988 days ago
Christmas and New Year out of the way and those on the margins once again get consigned to the list of social “problems...
Sea-wash… - 26/Dec/2013 22:02 - 3997 days ago
“The sea-wash never ends. The sea-wash repeats, repeats. Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows? Only the old strong so...
Same horse, different jockey… - 21/Dec/2013 20:33 - 4002 days ago
15 October 1977, Leeds University. First sighting of Ian Dury and the Blockheads, doing material from ‘New Boots & Pan...
Gathered in their masses… - 13/Dec/2013 19:51 - 4010 days ago
When the Death Star comes, (as it must) to destroy all that is rank and fetid in the world of music, there will be survivors… ...
Walk the city… - 18/Nov/2013 21:23 - 4035 days ago
Random words, random photographs. Images that I like… that maybe tell a story, maybe don’t… Walk the city and us...
Zelfportret van een ander… revisited. - 12/Nov/2013 22:22 - 4041 days ago
“Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly… and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from ...
Only football….. - 26/Oct/2013 19:56 - 4058 days ago
The thing about ‘found photographs’ is that you can impose your own narrative. No date on the photograph below, but ...
Hallucinating light… - 23/Oct/2013 21:49 - 4061 days ago
“I ride inside the purple dawn collecting golden due That falls from citidels of dreams I shake whilst flying through ...
Food for the soul….not wreckreation? - 21/Oct/2013 15:47 - 4063 days ago
“…the boat has not only been for our civilisation, from the sixteenth century until the present, the great instrumen...
Ship of fools… - 06/Oct/2013 20:00 - 4078 days ago
“Ship of Fools’ criss-crossed the sea and canals of Europe with their comic and pathetic cargo of souls. Some of the...
My back pages... - 01/Oct/2013 19:23 - 4083 days ago
Reblogged from Ideas & images from Portsmouth and beyond: Well I now have a job so (maybe) the rambling will stop! But first...
Dreaming the lives of ancestors… - 28/Sep/2013 19:31 - 4086 days ago
“I looked at your picture, faded and torn Imagined your life before my father was born Wondered what you were thinking Who...
Striking the right pose…. - 23/Sep/2013 13:00 - 4091 days ago
II (b): “Your camera is not a weapon…” III(a): “Use photography to convey a message...” IV (c): &#...
India was in my blood… - 14/Sep/2013 19:51 - 4100 days ago
“India was in my blood and there was much in her that instinctively thrilled me. And yet I approached her almost as an ali...
Don’t drive so fast in the daytime… - 25/Aug/2013 19:11 - 4120 days ago
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life” [Ja...
Please leave this world as clean as when you came… - 21/Aug/2013 14:01 - 4124 days ago
“Voices like the sea inside a shell Telling me I cannot stake a claim Possession is a clue but not the game So please leav...
Beached… - 15/Aug/2013 14:56 - 4130 days ago
Not necessarily a metaphor for anything…. Just thought it was about time to get out with the camera and take a few new pho...
Days… - 11/Aug/2013 12:02 - 4134 days ago
In 1939, the Robbins children who had remained in India arrived in the family home in Radford and for the first time met their...
Does this come with fries….? - 10/Aug/2013 19:39 - 4135 days ago
Returning to the UK last year after two years of living in Nepal, I wrote that one of the things that had the greatest impact u...
London Calling… - 27/Jul/2013 18:22 - 4149 days ago
Having just been to the LS Lowry exhibition at Tate Britain , I thought I’d wave a flag for another artist named Lowry who...
Staying on… - 21/Jul/2013 19:47 - 4155 days ago
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough”. [From "Fireflies" by Rabindranath Tagore] Some...
Slow travel…. - 30/Jun/2013 13:06 - 4176 days ago
In a world where communication can be almost instantaneous, a reminder that it wasn’t always quite as straightforward̷...
Barriers and fences… - 28/Jun/2013 18:36 - 4178 days ago
Here we go again… “The Treasury wants to continue to target welfare spending…. but there is no appetite any m...
A different world…. - 23/Jun/2013 20:41 - 4183 days ago
In 1960, the world was very small for a Coventry kid, just approaching his second Christmas. I have no recollection of this ph...
Beware of the flowers…cos I’m sure they’re gonna get you, yeah… - 18/Jun/2013 18:50 - 4188 days ago
I was a florist … Photographed on the way to work in Southampton today…made me think of this “Look out baby Lo...
Opening a box of memories…. - 16/Jun/2013 10:54 - 4190 days ago
“One day, quite some time ago I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother Jerome, taken in 1852. And I...
Are you sure Frank done it this way… - 09/Jun/2013 21:56 - 4197 days ago
A slight detour from the usual subject maybe…but a lead-in to where things might be going for a few posts at least. There&...
Sometimes a picture is more than just a picture… - 07/Jun/2013 18:48 - 4199 days ago
For no other reason than I like this photograph, which I took just off the Cowley Road in Oxford… and because Frank O̵...
A new tyranny….revisited. - 04/Jun/2013 21:21 - 4202 days ago
Continuing a theme from an earlier post… Oxfam estimates that of the $18.47 trillion being held by individuals in tax have...
Inventing social categories… - 16/May/2013 14:01 - 4221 days ago
“Everywhere I go I hear what’s going on And the more I hear the less I know Everywhere I go I hear what’s goin...
A new tyranny…? - 10/May/2013 18:41 - 4227 days ago
As humanity finds itself measured , weighed and found wanting by those who would rather see progress as a means of saving money,...
Temple Beautiful… - 30/Apr/2013 18:09 - 4237 days ago
Do you believe in rock & roll…and can music save your mortal soul…? Hell yeah…if it’s made by Chuck ...
Tommy Atkins died… - 28/Apr/2013 18:58 - 4239 days ago
“I went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer, The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no ...
White Lightening… - 22/Apr/2013 03:51 - 4245 days ago
In the light of recent discussions regarding the possibility of Brighton Council setting up safe rooms for the injecting of dru...
Divide and rule… - 04/Apr/2013 20:28 - 4263 days ago
So much for communities… Maybe I’m missing something, but in the week that the ‘spare room subsidy‘ kick...
Sleepwalking through cities of glass and steel…. - 31/Mar/2013 19:25 - 4267 days ago
This came to mind whilst in London the other day…. “Bazza is a looter In brogues, pinstripe and tie Short selling in...
Do the maths…an update… - 26/Mar/2013 20:12 - 4272 days ago
No apologies for reposting an extract from my last blog…. “From September 1st 2012, squatting in a residential prope...
Do the maths…. - 05/Mar/2013 23:19 - 4293 days ago
At the end of March last year I returned to the UK after two years of living and working as a volunteer in Nepal. Prior to that ...
Beneath rails of steel lies Morpheus… - 03/Mar/2013 20:57 - 4295 days ago
“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voy...
In dark spaces… - 22/Feb/2013 14:52 - 4304 days ago
In dark spaces between sleeping and dreaming are the lives we had and the lives that we wish for…. On whitewashed walls we...
A blind man on a revolving chair. - 13/Feb/2013 14:43 - 4313 days ago
The title of this post is not mine, but that of the Nepali poet Bhupi Sherchan (1936-1989). The poem of the same name is reprodu...
An imagined community…? - 10/Feb/2013 20:09 - 4316 days ago
What binds a nation together? Is it defined by allegiance to a flag, history and tradition or a constructed narrative about the...
Tomorrow it will all melt… - 18/Jan/2013 20:43 - 4339 days ago
“…. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold…” ...
Who knows what tomorrow may bring… - 31/Dec/2012 05:30 - 4357 days ago
Whatever we may have learned over the past year, and whatever our resolutions for the coming year…. Real change is more th...
Perspective… - 16/Dec/2012 19:53 - 4372 days ago
As winter weather holds us in its grip, and we bemoan the incessant rain….a couple of observations. 783 million people in ...
In the port of Amsterdam… - 02/Dec/2012 19:42 - 4386 days ago
“In the port of Amsterdam There’s a sailor who sings Of the dreams that he brings From the wide open sea… Ja...
Zelfportret van een ander… - 22/Nov/2012 12:16 - 4396 days ago
One of the things that two years living in another country does is allow time to reflect on how things are, and to try and under...
Reaching an understanding… - 21/Oct/2012 17:23 - 4428 days ago
“I had been for several years a traveller in the Himalaya, before I could get rid of that tyranny of the senses, which so ...
Just one thing… - 04/Oct/2012 10:37 - 4445 days ago
Last weekend saw me heading up to Birmingham to a VSO returning volunteers weekend, almost 6 months after arriving back in the U...
Look at this… - 23/Sep/2012 17:11 - 4456 days ago
In the aftermath of KateGate, and the impending report from the Leveson Enquiry, a few thoughts. Not my words, but certainly a ...
Outside of society, that’s where I want to be… - 14/Sep/2012 18:53 - 4465 days ago
Well, you know that Patti crops up from time to time on these pages… She’s still got it, some 34(!!) years laterR...
The last resort? - 19/Aug/2012 21:00 - 4491 days ago
“When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My holes were empty like a cup. In ...
One of those days in England… - 06/Aug/2012 13:54 - 4504 days ago
“Slowly slipping into history feel us go With these times another age could never know See the photos black and white and ...
Under construction… - 05/Jul/2012 14:53 - 4536 days ago
I haven’t quite started work yet… The mechanics of references being taken up and CRB checks being carried out always...
My back pages… - 14/Jun/2012 14:48 - 4557 days ago
Well I now have a job so (maybe) the rambling will stop! But first of all, a story that might well have been entitled “Bob...
A different drum beat… - 05/Jun/2012 16:37 - 4566 days ago
On one side of the world a Diamond Jubilee celebration which, whatever your views, brought worldwide media attention to the UK....
We mean it ma’am… - 27/May/2012 20:23 - 4575 days ago
Or…how I never saw the Sex Pistols. Another trawl through the vinyl, and it seems only right to raise the flag for “...
More food for thought… - 17/May/2012 15:25 - 4585 days ago
The last few years has seen an increase in acquisitions of land (mainly for agricultural use) in developing countries. This wave...
Fohat digs holes in space… - 04/May/2012 14:46 - 4598 days ago
The John Peel record archive was made available online earlier this week. Perhaps something of a ‘so what’ event fo...
A line on the horizon… - 29/Apr/2012 13:52 - 4603 days ago
Just over a month since getting back to the UK now, and still trying to work out what’s next. Possibly not the ideal tim...
Time to wake up… - 05/Apr/2012 13:01 - 4627 days ago
Good to know that we have an objective view of water here in the UK… The South East of England gets a hosepipe ban becaus...
World’s apart….? - 30/Mar/2012 09:00 - 4633 days ago
I’ve been back in the UK for three days and the ‘journey’ (for now), is over. Leaving Nepal was a massive wren...
Preparing for life in the fast lane… - 15/Mar/2012 09:32 - 4648 days ago
The last few weeks have rushed by and the journey is almost over. The process of ‘letting go’ is reinforced by the impending...
This is not a tribute… - 13/Mar/2012 07:28 - 4650 days ago
Some are born to greatness. Others have it thrust upon them. Whilst others, well… they just are. When the Death Star comes, (a...
Talkin’bout a revolution… - 07/Mar/2012 09:56 - 4656 days ago
I found myself in the Open Theatre in Kathmandu last weekend. Its a venue for rallies in the city and its always an interesting ...
One door closes… - 14/Feb/2012 07:48 - 4678 days ago
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself u...
Long after you are gone… - 10/Feb/2012 05:04 - 4682 days ago
Long after you are gone the mountains will be there… Possibly the last time I’m going to get a close-up of the Himal...
Rice - 06/Feb/2012 07:01 - 4686 days ago
More than half of the population of Nepal lives in remote hill and mountain regions. Agricultural development in these areas has...
Progress…. - 05/Feb/2012 09:30 - 4687 days ago
The Lazimpat area of Kathmandu includes the only major northwards running road in the city. Co-incidentally it is where I live. ...
From little things, big things grow… - 16/Jan/2012 08:36 - 4707 days ago
I have just spent the past three days, (plus the best part of a day either side traveling there) in Thimora, Chitwan at the bi-a...
Peace falls like dropping snow…? - 10/Jan/2012 05:49 - 4713 days ago
Not my words, but they need to be read. From today’s Republica No other comment necessary. “My fellow Nepali friends...
I ain’t gonna work on Bhatterai’s farm no more… - 04/Jan/2012 12:01 - 4719 days ago
With apologies to Bob Dylan. Go on…you know you want to check out the song by clicking on the picture below…and f...
The Journey Home - 03/Jan/2012 05:24 - 4720 days ago
January 2012 already, and suddenly two years doesn’t seem to be a very long time. My placement finishes towards the end of Mar...
Sing the song of the moment… - 28/Dec/2011 05:36 - 4726 days ago
Happy New Year…and thanks to all who stopped by, liked or commented…. “Sing of the fleeting smiles that van...
Drought is inevitable but famine is man made… - 23/Dec/2011 09:17 - 4731 days ago
Not a quote from a development organisation, but from photographer Rankin, after doing a photo shoot for Oxfam. Coming to the en...
Maybe a bit of joined up thinking wouldn’t go amiss… - 15/Dec/2011 07:08 - 4739 days ago
Following the recent COP 17, [The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C...
Its all downhill from here… - 28/Nov/2011 03:59 - 4756 days ago
Not a metaphor…a statement of fact. Four more days of descent, and after the exertions of the past few days, its quite nic...
Further on up the road… - 20/Nov/2011 07:45 - 4764 days ago
Khopra to Khayar Barahi Lake (4700m above sea level) 1100 metres up and back in the same day…and why not? A 6 am start for...
The other side of the mountain - 18/Nov/2011 08:19 - 4766 days ago
Mists that shroud Winds that chill Rains that soak men to the marrow Make them old before their time… ...
Always the same, yet ever changing. - 15/Nov/2011 04:10 - 4769 days ago
Bhaisi Kharka to Khopra (3660m above sea level) Early the next morning before sunrise the Dhalagiri range looms on the horizon&#...
Mice, mountains and leech karma…(II) - 08/Nov/2011 06:24 - 4776 days ago
…and so we continue. Dhamli to Tadapani (2800m above sea level) Amongst the many t-shirts that you can find in the Thamel ...
Mice, mountains and leech karma…(I) - 07/Nov/2011 05:03 - 4777 days ago
Back at the beginning of October I went on a trek to the Annapurna region with four other VSO volunteers (Akke Antje, Debbie, Gw...
Women and agriculture - 06/Nov/2011 07:24 - 4778 days ago
Been a bit slow on posting here. Normal service resumed shortly…hopefully! Meanwhile…stuff I wrote for the day job&#...
Contract…? - 11/Oct/2011 12:34 - 4804 days ago
Continuing in vaguely philosophical mode…. “She approaches with no hint of a smile “One photograph” she ...
On visiting the Korean Monastery, Lumbini…. - 29/Sep/2011 06:44 - 4816 days ago
“Lotus like, and imperfect, I sit As darkness becomes visible Leaving only the shadow play of swaying lanterns And the fli...
6.9…. - 19/Sep/2011 04:20 - 4826 days ago
A reminder yesterday evening that Kathmandu lies on an earthquake zone. At around 6.25 pm, a low rumble and the floor starts to ...
Here we go again…. - 24/Aug/2011 07:25 - 4852 days ago
In the light of other events worldwide, the saga of Nepal’s governance isn’t receiving much, (if any) international news cov...
You’ll go far my son…. - 12/Aug/2011 05:49 - 4864 days ago
…well, to Nepal at least. Not the usual ramblings…this time a few thoughts on the recent visit by Rob (son), and Joa...
Participatory Mapping - 27/Jul/2011 01:09 - 4880 days ago
“Maps are more than pieces of paper. They are stories, conversations, lives and songs lived out in a place and are inseparable...
Validation… - 27/Jul/2011 00:59 - 4880 days ago
I recently attended the Annual Review of CSRC at Nagarkot. The event brought together staff from CSRC, co-ordinators and activis...
A tale of the West…(Part III) - 29/Jun/2011 06:59 - 4908 days ago
This is the final post in respect of my recent trip west, and, having had some time to reflect on what I’ve seen, this is an a...
Milestones…. - 27/Jun/2011 04:23 - 4910 days ago
10,000 hits so far! No bull!! Thanks for everyone’s comments and just generally stopping by! Much appreciated...
A tale of the West…(Part II) - 23/Jun/2011 08:37 - 4914 days ago
The journey continues… A short bus ride and another early start brings us to Rajipur. The village, comprising a Tharu comm...
A tale of the West…. (Part I) - 20/Jun/2011 07:28 - 4917 days ago
Wednesday morning begins at just after 5am when I’m picked up by the CSRC jeep to travel with other staff to the far west of N...
Culture shock in reverse? - 13/Jun/2011 05:30 - 4924 days ago
Well…I’m back in Nepal after almost 3 weeks in the UK. It goes without saying that seeing family & friends has b...
A new direction… - 17/May/2011 09:22 - 4951 days ago
Well, the dust has finally settled and I think I’m well and truly ‘settled’ in Kathmandu…but not for too long. There...
On reflection…. Part II - 26/Apr/2011 06:55 - 4972 days ago
I’ve been a little quiet over the past couple of weeks, but with good reason. I’ve moved from Banepa, and I’m ...
On reflection….Part I - 03/Apr/2011 07:42 - 4995 days ago
I’ve just passed the milestone of living in Nepal for one year….so the next couple of posts will be something of an over...
Humanity… - 30/Mar/2011 19:14 - 4999 days ago
Sometimes I wonder why I carry a camera with me every day…and on days like today you realise why. I talk to people, and ...
Health Camp, Panchkhal, Kavre District - 26/Mar/2011 18:21 - 5003 days ago
Thursday 24 March was world TB day and, given the extent to which People Living With HIV & AIDS are co-infected with tuberc...
Mela - 20/Mar/2011 03:44 - 5009 days ago
Not many words this time, just some of my favourite photos of the past couple of weeks. Up the road from where I live there was ...
Brickworks…the story continues. - 07/Mar/2011 16:57 - 5022 days ago
I really don’t know how to put things into words sometimes…maybe its better to let the images speak for themselves. Mayb...
Food for thought… - 28/Feb/2011 16:54 - 5029 days ago
Statistics, as we all know, don’t always reflect the full picture. Questions of provenance, accuracy and purpose sometimes nee...
Nothing is ever black and white… - 21/Feb/2011 17:05 - 5036 days ago
Time marches inexorably on, and yet some things seem to remain the same. Nepal now has a prime minister, but its difficult to se...
Return to the brickyard… - 10/Feb/2011 14:08 - 5047 days ago
I went back to the brickyard today, having been thinking about what I might do with regard to making a long term photography pro...
Just Another Photograph From Nepal… - 25/Jan/2011 13:15 - 5063 days ago
Just before leaving the UK for Nepal I wrote something about how an image devoid of context allows the viewer the opportunity to...
Tomorrow is a long time… - 17/Jan/2011 16:17 - 5071 days ago
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I frequently utilise the titles of favourite songs...
The road less travelled…(Part IV) - 15/Jan/2011 01:03 - 5073 days ago
Already half way through January, so the final installment of travels over the recent festive season is slightly out of date! Ho...
The road less travelled…(Part III) - 08/Jan/2011 09:30 - 5080 days ago
It seems only right that the reason for our good fortune whilst in Gorkha should have the first photograph. This is Sunil, who h...
The road less travelled…(Part II) - 04/Jan/2011 15:05 - 5084 days ago
Ah…Christmas Day, and Akke Antje and I have a 6.30 start to get the bus to Butwal. To quote Van Morrison…‘no guru,...
The road less travelled…(Part I) - 02/Jan/2011 06:04 - 5086 days ago
And so the New Year begins…. Were there to have been Christmas tinsel and trimmings in abundance in Nepal, (and as far as ...
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers&Bastards…. - 22/Dec/2010 16:25 - 5097 days ago
Well if the title is good enough for Tom Waits, its good enough for me…! “…I wanted the record to be like empt...
Through Western Eyes… - 17/Dec/2010 04:01 - 5102 days ago
Almost nine months here in Nepal, with Christmas & New Year just around the corner. Not sure I’m into the ‘refle...
The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore… - 06/Dec/2010 15:07 - 5113 days ago
Winter is really beginning to take a hold now, and theres been a marked drop in temperature over the past month or so. The days ...
The politics of inertia…(or indifference?) - 29/Nov/2010 14:00 - 5120 days ago
Back into a routine (of sorts) at work. Meanwhile there is another seemingly routine activity going on…the singular inab...
Crossing continents (Part II) - 22/Nov/2010 15:57 - 5127 days ago
So much for maintaining the narrative of Lesley’s visit!! So here’s the short version of the bits after Kathmandu&...
Crossing continents. (Part I) - 13/Nov/2010 05:47 - 5136 days ago
Seven months in and an opportunity to ‘revisit’ my first impressions of Nepal, this time through someone else’s eyes. For ...
Bhojpur&beyond…a small odyssey (Part IV) - 22/Oct/2010 01:56 - 5158 days ago
The ‘routine’ is well established by now, and despite being awake at 5.30, the world is already turning! I’m still struck ...
Bhojpur and beyond…a small odyssey (Part III) - 20/Oct/2010 17:06 - 5160 days ago
Awake at about 5.15 in the morning, but village life has already begun a good hour or so. (I’m pretty familiar with this in ac...
Bhojpur and beyond…a small odyssey (Part II) - 19/Oct/2010 11:19 - 5161 days ago
Some ancient misty morning indeed… (Jackie Leven if you’re interested…) Another full day of walking ahead̷...
Bhojpur and beyond…a small odyssey (Part I) - 17/Oct/2010 16:28 - 5163 days ago
A chance meeting in Kathmandu with Bhupal, a teacher from the far east of Nepal back in May of this year, and I’m off to...
Who knows what tomorrow may bring… - 02/Oct/2010 08:56 - 5178 days ago
Nothing like a bit of uncertainty to focus the mind! Navadeep Jyoti Kendra’s funding has now ended, and until June 2011 the Po...
Road of the braver man… - 28/Sep/2010 14:52 - 5182 days ago
Sometimes you just stumble into something because you decide to take a particular turn. Today was one of those days…. I ha...
Tomorrow is a long time… - 26/Sep/2010 12:45 - 5184 days ago
“Give me $100 please…”. The boy’s request was nothing if not insistent. Disappointed that I was not a tourist and mo...
On the road again… - 19/Sep/2010 15:43 - 5191 days ago
So ends the week long language ‘refresher’ course in Kathmandu. A chance to catch up with other volunteers and to share expe...
Return of the Grievous Angel… - 06/Sep/2010 16:52 - 5204 days ago
“Won’t you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich And welcome me back to town….” Gram Parsons For a variety of reasons...
Janai Purnima - 24/Aug/2010 11:01 - 5217 days ago
Today is a national holiday in Nepal as Janai Purnima, the sacred thread festival of Hindus, is observed today throughout the co...
Who knows where the time goes… - 21/Aug/2010 16:06 - 5220 days ago
This week seems to have passed in a flash. I know that there’s quite a lot going on work wise at the moment, but I think that ...
Without the aid of a safety net… - 16/Aug/2010 11:05 - 5225 days ago
Time marches inexorably on, and its now some five months since I arrived in Nepal. A placement of two years seems on paper to be...
Eat y’self fitter… - 08/Aug/2010 18:27 - 5233 days ago
Well that’s that then…recovered and back in the saddle so to speak! Business as usual…or not! I’ve become accust...
Three cheers for Knorr’s packet soups… - 01/Aug/2010 15:35 - 5240 days ago
Rain and circumstances (which I’ll describe shortly) haven’t allowed a lot of time for new photographs, but heres a shot fro...
Toast,mangoes and a bus accident… - 24/Jul/2010 01:11 - 5248 days ago
I had one of those Rupert Brooke moments at the beginning of the week…except with toast replacing the honey….. “&#...
Sometimes flowers ain’t enough… - 17/Jul/2010 05:27 - 5255 days ago
I briefly mentioned last time that funding for SPN and NJC is coming to an end in September. They are considered to be short-ter...
Every place that I have been, leaves its message on my skin… - 10/Jul/2010 11:32 - 5262 days ago
True to form, a line from a song buries itself in my consciousness as I begin to think about events of the past week. Literally ...
Normal service will be resumed shortly… - 02/Jul/2010 13:18 - 5270 days ago
So…I have the keys to my permanent accommodation here in Banepa. I’ve spent most of the week sorting various things ...
Watcher of the skies…. - 26/Jun/2010 02:50 - 5276 days ago
Since I’ve been back here, temperatures in and around Banepa have hovered around 30⁰C. Even as I take the kilometer or so wa...
Are you ready for the country…? - 19/Jun/2010 12:24 - 5283 days ago
I think I’m going to have the same relationship with Kathmandu that I had with London. It’s not too far from home, its got l...
The needle and the damage done…. - 12/Jun/2010 07:39 - 5290 days ago
Sitting with a beer and reflecting after a week at work has never been a particularly onerous task for me. Its therefore not ent...
सवागत…. - 05/Jun/2010 05:04 - 5297 days ago
And so as I bid farewell to Kathmandu, one of the more surreal images of my last few days there. Not something I’ve ever seen ...
It takes a stranger to understand what the wind says in a strange land… - 01/Jun/2010 15:55 - 5301 days ago
Two months of living in Nepal, and the scenery is about to change yet again. Tomorrow morning at 8.00am I’ll be heading out of...
Time is tight… - 29/May/2010 13:25 - 5304 days ago
And so once again brinkmanship is the order of the day. Just as consensus appeared unlikely, so all of the major parties agreed ...
In the shadow of uncertainty… - 27/May/2010 17:13 - 5306 days ago
May 27th brings us back to Kathmandu following four days at the annual VSO conference, at a venue in Godavari, an hour or so’s...
I greet the divine within you - 18/May/2010 12:09 - 5315 days ago
With just less than a week until we meet with our respective partner agencies, time to reflect and take stock of how much distan...
The return of the Budol 6… - 11/May/2010 11:41 - 5322 days ago
So, here I am, back in Kathmandu, along with the rest of the Budol 6 as we will henceforth be known! The bandh was called off ...
Maoists riding a tiger… - 08/May/2010 01:14 - 5325 days ago
So reads the headline in yesterday’s Kathmandu Post (7 May 2010). Day five of the general strike completed, and the pictur...
The revolution starts at closing time… - 03/May/2010 15:02 - 5330 days ago
Thankfully events in Kathmandu passed off peacefully over the weekend. “Amid growing fears of violence, the May Day demonstrat...
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