Where are you ?

"Where have you gone ? Please come home. I'm all alone in this old house and it's getting dark. Please come home........." Happy Halloween.

All Hallows approaches

Sleep soundly my pretties, sleep deep. Don't open your eyes. You don't want to know what lurks in the darkness.

The burning bush

The red of autumn burns under an orange sky. Death throes of summer producing nature's mighty display. Warm days are gone. Cold and darkness await.

Autumn

The reading chair

I took this picture in my local library yesterday. It got me thinking about what stories have been read there ? What adventures it must have taken people on. But looking at it now it could also be Bilbo and Frodo's home in the Shire.

Dials and nostalgia

Remember when everything was controlled by dials ? Not push buttons or remote controls. You had to get up out of the chair to change stations or volume levels. Can't see it ever catching on....

The pumpkin patch

Years ago i recall driving through California at this time of year, passing fields of pumpkins for hours on end. They bled into the distance on both sides of the highway. Living in the UK i have never seen one since. Until today. I live 5 minutes walk from farmland and this is the first …

An afternoon stroll in North Wales

I am so lucky where i live. Within 30 minutes i can be in the mountains and woodland of North Wales. Fresh air. Peace and quiet. Breathtaking views. Solitude and nature. What more can you ask for ?

Sloe gin

The woodland offers up its bounty at this time of year and what better use to put it to than to make alcohol. Sloe gin in this case. For anyone who is interested the shot was taken in a darkened room. I had a bowens Gemini light with a diffused snoot set to the left. …

Grid Girls

Grid girls are part of motorsport. But they must dress gender neutral nowadays. In other words they must wear trousers and can't show off their beauty. So just to upset the do-gooders out there, here's a few shots from the 2004 British Superbike race at Oulton Park.