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In mid-October Britain it can seem like a relatively low level god is resentfully toying with a dimmer switch, daring it to break. Sunshine Cloud cloud Sunshine Cloud Sunshine sunshine sunshine Cloud cloud… Before the switch breaks, the clocks go back, and we are plunged into seemingly eternal wintertime gloom. There are more days when […]
Former Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba has died, aged 39. He was reported to have overcome cancer while at Cardiff in 2021, before taking on a coaching role. Most recently he was coaching at Turkish club Adanaspor. A club statement said he fell ill before a match, “was taken to hospital and unfortunately lost his […]
The 2024 general election is now fast approaching on July 4th, and it’s commanding headlines as you’d expect. The current prime minister Rishi Sunak took some by surprise in announcing it so early in the year, as others had expected it to happen around October. Attuned to local election photo opportunities, I heard of Plaid […]
As I haven’t fed this blog for about half a year, here’s a mishmash post of recent words and images from the first two months of 2024, half cobbled and extrapolated from my latest Instagram posts. Photographs and memory have an inextricably connected relationship, as discussed on these pages before. Photos can serve to cement […]
Here’s a selection of event photography images from a couple of tech conferences that came along in September 2023, one straight after the other. Both were repeat jobs I’d done before, working with pleasant people, which always helps things along well. The first was Serverless Days Cardiff at Depot, a large warehouse in the industrial […]
A belated post about the period around the coronation of King Charles II in May 2023, observed from Cardiff in Wales and London in England. On the Saturday of the coronation ceremony itself, there was little obvious indication of it in Cardiff. No bustling excited schoolkids, no union jack flags, no bunting, no street-side pubs […]
Britain seems like a tiny island when viewed on a global map, although it’s still much larger than most of its near neighbours in Europe. You can forget how diverse it is, become blinkered by your own area of it, if you don’t tend to travel far, especially in recent pandemic-blighted times. Your vision of […]
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, there were countless tributes and parades. There were gun salutes in castles, proclamation ceremonies, silences and songs. There were lavish, formal ceremonies, not held in 70 years, new and novel to virtually everyone. They assembled amusingly disjointed bunches of people from across political divides, including […]
8 September The Queen died today, Thursday, ending the longest reign in British history. Strange words to type, not least because she seemed so immortal to so many. An ever-present, death-defying, emblematic stalwart of the UK. We were prepared for it in the afternoon, with an official statement saying that doctors were concerned for her […]
Please license images of the 2022 WWE event in Cardiff, UK, via my Alamy library here. Cardiff transformed into the global capital of wrestling for a few days last weekend. A show of the US franchise, WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) drew 60,000 wrestling fans to witness what was dubbed the ‘Clash at the Castle’. […]