It’s lovely to be asked to take photos by friends but honestly I sometimes feel a complete fraud! Last night I was at Helmsley Arts Centre at the behest of Tash, director but also one of the principle’s in their latest show ‘Jekyll and Hyde the musical’. It was their last dress rehearsal with an […]
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Went down to the capital for some vet work but had a little time before that to wander from Kings Cross down to Victoria. Here’s a selection:
A friend asked if I could take some photos of her daughter at her pre prom gathering. Took me back to when my two were sixteen and got all dressed up, with their partner for the evening and headed off to the Feathers in Helmsley to celebrate the end of secondary school. It was a
Last week we left the gloomy and decidedly chilly North York Moors for another national park, the Lake District, and enjoyed a gorgeous spell of weather in a stunningly beautiful landscape. I do struggle with trying to capture natural land forms – they never match the real thing, a poor substitute and so I’m always
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Visiting our friend Kitty in Cumbria always means a walk down to the tractor graveyard in the valley below her house. I love the decay, nature slowly engulfing machines that have done their best to tame it and colours – oranges, reds and blues sitting among a sea of green.
Last week I was in Leamington working with fellow role players at a vets training event and one of them, Ali, volunteered for a portrait shoot. So after dinner one evening I set up the lights and back drop and off we went!
A last minute request to cover a singing workshop in Easingwold came from a friend in need on Saturday but with nothing particularly planned for the following day, I agreed. All I knew was that the two-hour workshop was being led by Bruce Ncube and that it was being held at the Methodist Church. I
As usual we took on this fundraising stall at the Sinnington May Fair – items dropped off by local village people, mostly of little value, but somehow we managed to raise £250 in the two hours we were there. Just before it kicked off I had a little free time and thought I’d photograph a
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