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St Fagans National Museum of History is a true treasure of Wales and Britain. It was fantastic to see it named Art Fund Museum of the Year last week, beating off four other contenders from around the UK to win the prestigious £100,000 prize. St Fagans National Museum of History St Fagans allows visitors to […]
Our first trip away as a family of four took us to North Devon in mid-June. And we picked a week of almost constant rain. We stayed in one of a complex of several farmhouses near Ilfracombe. The farm had a few large fields in which we could exercise the dog, but there was no […]
“Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” The crowd chant starts at a low rumbling level and slowly builds until everyone is on the same page. “Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!” They are calling for the release of the first roll of cheese from the top of Cooper’s Hill. Or perhaps simply expressing their love of cheese. It doesn’t really matter. […]
Gloucester was a gateway city for me, the first city I came to know well. Gloucester (‘Glarster’ if you’re local, perhaps ‘Glowsester’ if you’re American, or ‘Gloster’ to anyone else) was the closest city to where I grew up in the Forest of Dean. We often made the half hour journey for shopping and dentist […]
Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
You undergo psychological adjustments when you become a parent. One of the major ones concerns allotments of time, or so it appears to me. That is, how you allot your future time on this planet in your head, and where you are going in life. Mental adjustments as a parent For so long as a […]
Continuing my blog catch-up, here’s some spurious mind fluff about a seasonal thing which has caught my interest and snagged my face over recent weeks. As a dog-walker you tend to develop a keen sense of the changing seasons, day by day. The late summer bleed into autumn is one of the most visually striking […]
A belated wedding photography blog post about a Vale of Glamorgan wedding this summer. It all happened quite a while ago now. In fact, it feels like ages because so much has happened since. (September saw the release of a baby and a book, ‘Canton & Pontcanna’). But the dates and calendars assure me that […]
This week sees the release of my Cardiff street photography book, Canton and Pontcanna, published by The History Press. I’m told it is (or will be) available to buy from Octavo’s in Cardiff Bay, Griffin Books in Penarth, and Amazon in the Internet. Canton and Pontcanna – Times of Day It all came about in […]
Cardiff City return to the Premier League this weekend after securing promotion with a second place finish in the Sky Bet Championship last term. The primary objective this time around, just like their last time in the top flight during the 2013/14 season, will be to stay up. Last time they failed and were some […]