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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Do you believe in romance …
No not me unfortunately, but the two people in the shot below where certainly indulging there affections in an blatant yet innocent show of blind love on the sandy banks of the Thames. They had little idea that standing on the rivers embankments high above them, that I [...]

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Rotherhithe is one of those elusive tranquil spots of London for me. Its sits slap bang in the middle of the city yet easily manages to separate itself from the rapid pace of the thriving metropolis that surrounds it. A natural barrier made by an almost closed ‘u’ shaped curve of the Thames, on [...]

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So I get invited to Silverstone race track for a testing day to take photos, “wahay and okay” I say, Its been many years since I’ve shot any motor sport so it’ll be good for me to exercise those techniques.
Trouble was, they seemed to have made the fences higher than I remember, darn it if [...]

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Photographic Piece: Title. Forbidden News.
Found plastered to one of the walls within the main loading bay.

Millennium Mills.
There is a building, standing resolute, almost benign to the passing of time; it’s huge, and I mean big. A twelve story warehouse at its highest, and three times the width, originally used to mill flour and make food [...]

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