Date archive: October 2016
Everyone is talking about the UK’s impressively colourful autumn. 2016 has been a good year for tree and leaf growth, giving us one of our best autumns, or for my American friends, a great Fall. General advice is to get out and about to visit the various woods and forests across England. Well this morning in…
Folk tend to take their local region, town or city for granted. I was taking a client around Liverpool on Monday for an afternoon’s photo tuition session. It was cold but dry and sunny, the sky was blue, the fine architecture dazzled and the sculptures were picked out in the autumn sunshine. David Attenborough was…
I was in Port Sunlight today with my photography class so the students could practise the theory learned over the previous two weeks. Whilst there we noticed another photographer taking shots of a lady beside a beautiful Nissan Figaro car. I went over and chatted to Ruth and she informed me this was a shoot…
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Two nights ago I enjoyed a super evening as guest speaker and presenter of prizes to over 40 pupils from ages 5 to 16 at Wakefield Independent School in Yorkshire, UK. This annual school event was absolutely marvellous and a lovely and talented group of children collected their awards then entertained us with singing, dancing and…
Robert Burns, the famous C18th Scottish poet, wrote in his poem ‘To A Louse’: “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!” I ran my Blueberry Photography course session in Ellesmere Port this morning, whilst next door, Lisa Bell was running her Cake Decorating course. During our joint coffee…
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We have all heard this popular idiom. But what does it mean? The act of concurrence, cooperation or shared opinion? Well in fact, it’s all three. Over a professional career of 35 years I have worked for and with many organisations on a full time or contracted basis; architectural practices, professional bodies, local authorities, schools, colleges…