But work has piled up this week as events in the news have meant much work for me and lots of time (lunchtime, evening and night) doing my day job and a bit less time taking or talking about photos or cameras. In some ways its a good thing – I’m much better at handling …

These days it can end up feeling like nothing ever stops: wake up, work, work, work, home, family, financial stuff, go to sleep. Repeat. Thus that moment of quiet time becomes ever more important. Taken with my X-E1 and 14mm lens

Nothing much to this one other than a folly. The folly in question was thinking that a day on which it was merely sunny would be good for photography. As it happened the conditions were terrible, the wind was howling and the temperature near freezing. That’ll learn me. Again I came across these locks, which …

I probably ought to explain why I’ve been so quiet this last week. The “bug” that my other half picked up translated to full blown Gastroenteritis (again) for me, such that I lost Wednesday entirely and Thursday was a bit nil by mouth. So it’s fair to say the holiday was a little bit rubbish overall! …

Two really lovely locations with nice weather, what’s not to like? My son and I (mummy was laid low with a bug) headed off to cause as much damage to the English countryside as possible (OK that was his intention, I was along for the ride). We wandered up Bolton’s bench and the heathland behind …