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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 […]
One sunny Sunday morning in February 2023 I cycled to Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. This was an extended cycle which I’d been toying with for a while, but now the conditions were just about perfect. The weather was fine and looked reasonably settled. I had enough time to play with. There was an […]
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 […]
Street photography in Cheltenham was a new experience fo me. In recent years I have visited the town only to shoot occasional football matches, quick in-and-out trips, never hanging around. But having studied for my A Levels at a college in the town in the late 1990s, and later living there for 18 months in […]
The opening months of 2022 have seen me rekindling my passion for street photography. It’s been helped by visiting new towns, which always helps to renew the spark. Whatever those places are like, there is greater sensitivity and heightened observation when you are somewhere unfamiliar, and if you only have a limited amount of time […]
This week a new laptop battery led me to a shop in the Cardiff streets of my student days. While my machine was being tinkered with, I took a short wander. A stone’s throw away was the two bedroom flat above a shop I rented with a friend in my third year of university, twenty […]
The now UK-wide coronavirus 2021 lockdown feels a world away from last March. The governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England have all done it slightly differently, but after a journey of various changing restrictions over the last few months, we are now in the same place. Here in Wales we have been under […]
Cardiff is nearing the end of its two-week firebreak lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government to slow the spread of coronavirus. It is due to be lifted on November 9th. On Monday morning I photographed some city centre shopping streets. Media outlets and picture editors tend to favour a slightly amplified image of complete desertion […]
Trees matter but we often take them for granted or ignore them altogether. They matter to us individually, collectively and as a planet. They pop up in cities as designed features of the street. They appear in our leafy suburbs and gardens. They form epicentres of natural life in their traditional habitats of woodlands and […]
October is usually the best month of the year for autumn photography but this October of 2019 has been a wash-out of almost endless rain. Merciful pockets of fine autumn weather have rarely extended to more than a couple of days. Rain rain rain The rain has hammered down, hard and insistent. Met Office weather warnings […]