Ducatos – better than a vacation

I’ve been experimenting lately with black and white images, particularly with the various possibilities of silver toning effects. Here are some taken this spring in Richmond Park and (this one) in our gardens.        This next bit is about the nostalgia of black and white and how to recreate it. You can skip…

A morning walk with M*t*n and P*tt* on the beach at Kommejtkie.   Walkers, surfers, dogs f*cking, families, loners, getting a mild dose of pre-breakfast exercise, on an uncharacteristically cold and grey strand. Later I went for a run on Noordhoek beach, 6km over. I had driven back, changed, and then started from the other end…

” Today’s photo:Gironde Carrelet at dusk. An evening long exposure shot around sunset, of one of the iconic fishing jetties, or ‘Carrelets’ on the banks of the Gironde. This lovely river flows into Bordeaux, and flanks some of the most famous locations in French wine. It is also home to little fish, rather like Whitebait,…

There is a lot of sitting done in Madrid, and a fair bit of watching. The gent on the left was there when I set off to see a few galleries and have lunch, and he was still there when I came back 3 hours later. Even though beer is amazingly cheap in restaurants, there…

A magnificent day on Sunday the 3rd, as we watched the amazing Thames Pageant.  I don’t get excited often these days, but I was genuinely thrilled by the event – which displayed all the bonkers flair for procession and stoicism in the face of continuous rain of the British. Even hardened republicans were out, and…