Favourite Photo of the Month, 2020
January I’d got out of the habit of riding the ferries, so I treated myself on my birthday in January. February Another month, another ferry ride. I normally wouldn’t have two similar photos so close together in my favourites, but even back before Covid-19 came along I wasn’t taking many photos. I’d just got a […]
One-Mile Matt
I heard about “burbing” the other day and it got me thinking — I’d already been wondering if I’d explored all my local walking options for lockdown exercise as I was getting a bit bored with my normal routes. I’ve lived here in Hotwells for more than twenty years now, so it’s hardly surprising I’m fairly familiar […]
Social Distance
Street photography is hard at the moment, but seeing as I had to go into town to get a cheque out of the building society (yes, it still seems to be 1975) I figured I’d have a go. I was only planning to snap the sign, but then I saw the cyclist approaching out of the […]
A New Dawn
So. Photo 30 out of 30 in my September photo-a-day. Actually, I’m going to cheat today and choose two photos from this morning to finish off the project. I checked the weather yesterday, and it said it was going to rain all day for the foreseeable future, starting today, so I got out as early as […]
Missing the Boat
29/30 in my September photo-a-day. At the weekend I was admiring the excellent crop on the cover photo of a book — the Penguin Classics version of The Way By Swann’s (pretentious, moi?) It’s a great example of the way a crop can turn an otherwise fairly straightforward photo into something more — adding tension, and emotion. The original picture […]