MARYPORT. You Don’t Always Get The Shot You Expect.

You see, the thing with photography is that for all the technology etc there’s still a few things that are in the lap of the Gods.

You see, the thing with photography is that for all the technology etc there’s still a few things that are in the lap of the Gods.

I took a ride over to Chorley today, the annual Flower Show was in progress and it’s an event I really enjoy. I’m no great garden expert, what I know about flowers you could write on a piece of paper small enough to fit in a frogs ear. I do like the fantastic splashes of colour and the exotic shapes of the plants but I also enjoy watching people enjoying […]

The story so far, I’m now in Ulverston, the weather has decided to stay in unpleasant mode so it’s a case of get wet and find hot food. Walking around I found a place new to me, Ripe on Market Street. The stew 👆was just the thing for a day of unfriendly weather, it was rich and warm with just the right amount of spice. Spice is now on my […]

It’s not a rainy night in Georgia, it’s a rainy morning in Lancaster. I’m off and away to Cumbria using the excellent Stagecoach Explorer ticket, as Arthur Daley would say, the world is my lobster. Looking at the weather I don’t think the usual photography will be high on the agenda but a ride out somewhere always provides some useful thinking time, so nowt wasted. And no doubt there will […]

I was in between buses and I was in Kendal with about 45 mins to spare. I could have stayed a the bus station and done some observing of life and the human condition but I went for a cup of coffee and a cake instead. Yeah, yeah, predictable old me.

Ah yes I can hear you all thinking, the fool has been rummaging through his photographic dressing up box again and found something to amuse himself with.