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Wings for Life at Silverstone
This weekend I am racing with Red Bull in the British F1 GP at Silverstone. The cars of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber have a special livery comprising thousands of individual pictures of people who...
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Personal Objectives for 2013
I prefer objectives to resolutions as they are clearly defined and measurable. Create at least 12 photosets on Flickr. Link up with a group for leisure (possibly Rotary, art/photography, study etc.)....
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mima middlesbrough
the middlesbrough institute of modern art is an internationally renowned gallery in the very centre of town, and i took the opportunity to visit again today. not only did i look round, i also took the...
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Stewart Park in Middlesbrough
I spent a great couple of hours today walking round this park in Middlesbrough (or more precisely Marton). Although still winter, the temperature had risen to double figures and the sun was shining....
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Temenos (2010) by Anish Kapoor
Tenemos is a dramatic art installation on Middlesbrough Riverside. It’s one of the Tees Valley Giants, a £15 million series of five installations by sculptor Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil...
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Magnificent isolation, wonderful therapy!
I’m currently off work, and have been for just over four weeks, the reason is depression, anxiety and related mental health issues. I’ve gone through a lot of personal and work changes in the last...
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Teesside Retail Park
This afternoon I walked round Teesside Retail Park near Middlesbrough and shot a monochrome photoset to emphasise the homogeneity of these corporate and soulless places. The ‘park’ was thronging with...
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Theft of Intellectual Property?
I love Webuser magazine dropping through my letterbox every two weeks, but was disgusted by their latest cover! Who pays for the excellent BBC programmes people watch on demand if everyone took this...
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Good Friday 2013
See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow and love flow mingled down! Did e’er such love and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a crown? Filed under: Arts, Christian, Politics, Religion,...
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
I’ve always had an interest in astronomy; it goes right back to my childhood, and it’s nurtured my love of science as well as my outlook on life. I’ll probably write about it in the future. In the...
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Freddy’s First Photoshoot
I’ve been interested in photography for as long as I can remember, developing and printing 35 mm films in a makeshift darkroom many years ago. Naomi is also a very keen photographer, and taking photos...
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Where does the time go?
It’s second time around for me having young children, and I absolutely love seeing Freddy and Matilda (not forgetting Pollyanna) grow and develop. Here are some obligatory photos outside our front...
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Microsoft Office Lens
Years ago you used a photocopier, more recently scanners became available, firstly on their own and then incorporated into printers. You could also get portable scanners, where the document to be...
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Pied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted...
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Richardson Dees Park in Wallsend
Richardson Dees Park in Wallsend is a beautiful place to walk with some wonderful facilities, although these are not open in the current coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, it wasn’t possible for Wallsend...
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Rising Sun Country Park
The Rising Sun Country Park is a wonderful place to visit, just two miles away from where we live in Wallsend. It’s somewhere we’ll miss when we move away from the area on my retirement in a few...
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Therapeutic Nature
I’ve had a couple of bad days in lockdown, but after getting our children into bed I was able to enjoy nature just a couple of hundred yards from our house while I walked the dog – and it did me the...
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Four by Four and Four by Sixteen
Photography (a smartphone is all you need by the way) and writing, whether personal or for work, are two of the things that are currently helping me maintain my mental health and sanity in the...
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Natural Health Service
Today’s family afternoon excursion into beautiful nature wasn’t just daily exercise, but emergency treatment from the Natural Health Service. We’re all in the same situation in the coronavirus...
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Walk with Matilda and Pollyanna
A change from nature photos today. Freddy decided he wanted to stay at home with Naomi, so off I went for a walk with Matilda and Pollyanna. Even though there’s a coronavirus pandemic lockdown, we had...
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