The Snapping Bishop

Hastings, a seaside town in East Sussex, UK.
Okay, I admit I’ve become obsessed, No not with Hastings although I have fallen for the place before, with its fine old town center, classic seaside house frontages and a wonderful 1930s styled promenade. Which was very special at the time with the locals, because it incorporated [...]

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A wander through London on a cold wet Saturday.
Its grey, its wet, the sunlight is non existent and a cold wing is blowing in from the Artic …. not a ideal day to attend a meeting with other photographers for a wander and jabber down through London last weekend. …As expected, the weather paid its [...]

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Oooh those little photons …  
Low winter sunlight, its a gift from the gods isn’t it. If I could chose what weather to have any time I wished it would be low evening sunlight, forget your sunsets and sunrises, defiantly rule out mid summer days, then there’s dappled cloud with sun rays; Oh okay, thats’s pretty [...]

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 Yet another sunset meet arranged with fellow minded photographers through my favorite forum www.talkphotography.co.uk , mainly an excuse to catch up, have a giggle and a drink or two. We do eventually wander off in search of that elusive shot; these few were to be found on the southern end of the bay, close to [...]

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There’s this building, which for those around here like to call the quarter deck building. Its quite beautiful, its shape somehow very natural. But then, unfortunately for me, having returned to the same spot as last year’s Red Bull Air Race,  a really attractive building to use within a composition containing the swooping, turning and [...]

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For the last few years a few of my fellow photographers and I get together for an annual meet at Dungeness Beach in Kent, England. This year we went for July 26th and 27th with a sunset at about 9.30pm followed by some night shots, then up again for sunrise at 4.00am … we won’t [...]

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