Author: DMcA

Shoeburyness (next to Godliness)

ByDMcA April 29, 2015April 29, 2015

Today’s photo: Another long exposure shot taken at Shoeburyness on my on my exciting Southend weekend last year. Shoeburyness used to be a major military barracks and defensive area, and as a result there are a lot of mysterious and derelict structures out in the sea that make fertile ground for LE photographers. Thanks to…

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You no see me (teehee)

ByDMcA April 13, 2015April 13, 2015

Today’s photo: A curious but shy girl in a pagoda in Yangon. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button to return.

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Champs en feu

ByDMcA April 8, 2015April 8, 2015

” Today’s photo: Long low evening light over just harvested wheat fields in central France, taken last autumn. This is the classic country view on the way to our place at la Rocheliere. Note: Click photo to enlarge – back button to return.

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A Coda….

ByDMcA April 3, 2015April 8, 2015

It’s been a week since we said goodbye to my mother, and I’m coming to the end of a short period of rest and reflection in Madrid. I wanted to do three more things related to her passing. The first is to thank all those who via this site, or Facebook, or directly, sent their…

Harry and Joyce

Farewell, my beautiful, kind and funny mother

ByDMcA March 28, 2015September 19, 2021

We said goodbye to Joyce yesterday, at the little Kentish church she loved, with family, friends, and colleagues from her life of service. It was a day of overwhelming sadness and also laughter. At the very end of a moving service, our daughter read a funny little AA Milne poem that she and my mother…

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Oh Shoeburyness, Shoeburyness – the greatest gift that I possess

ByDMcA March 9, 2015April 8, 2015

Today’s photo: Another long exposure shot taken near Southend, UK, at Shoeburyness. Ah… Ken Dodd. The problem with being born in my era is that I cannot get the songs of Ken Dodd, or indeed Keynsham Bristol, that’s K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M, out of my head. The latter was burned into my prefrontals while listening to Luxembourg on…

Latest News September 2021

“Still alive and able to get about quite well” is the overall report. We are all fine, albeit with the usual ups and downs. The site has been spiffed up a bit, and should be faster and easier to navigate. I might even put some new content on – see What’s happening? for more info.

On other fronts, I think my photography techniques and images have improved quite a lot over the last 4 years, and I have discovered a fascination for the technical and technique challenges of photographing birds in flight. Have a look at mcaughtry.photo to see if you agree. I have also discovered the delights of artisan coffee, and have built a spiffy state of the art digital audiophile music system, all of which I may write about in the future. So no shortage of things to interest or infuriate me.

But most of all my life has been enriched and inspired by my two beautiful and funny grandchildren, 5 and 2 years old as I write. Why couldn’t I have been like this when I was their age I ask myself? I am privileged to know them and my heart skips on each encounter.

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