Final stop on my quick visit to the UK was to stay with an old friend from our days at HP who now lives just outside Bristol. I was able to travel directly from York to Bristol by train.
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My two oldest (longstanding) friends now both live in York, just a short drive apart, so it was easy to co-ordinate movements for trips and events.
After visiting Whidbey Island, I was able to fly directly from Seattle (ok, via Amsterdam) to Manchester – my first visit to the UK since 2019. First stop was on the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary with my brother.
My host from the Charlie Waite workshop last year was going to be away for a couple of months, and so Jill and I arranged to look after her house, and garden, for a couple of weeks in May.
I actually like making architectural photographs, exploring the lines and curves.And it can be interesting to question how things are normally seen. Anyone can tilt their head and gain a different perspective on a structure, but only the camera will really remember it.
It’s a while since we’ve done any traveling and the weather’s been much of a muchness so it’s been difficult to get into exploring any of my usual scenes around town.
And then I had the thought, on my normal daily walk into downtown, take my camera with me, set »
Last September I attended a workshop on Whidbey Island in Washington State led by Charlie Waite and Keron Psillas thanks to the Pacific Northwest Art School. I had long known of Charlie and even had a few books by him, so I jumped at the chance »
I haven’t been to the fitness center (it had gotten to the point where getting there and back was taking up too much of the day and I can exercise other ways) and anyway we used to go a different way when I went regularly. Jill has kept going »
I feel like we never see mist locally. It might just be that I grew up with real, dense fogs. Or that I’m not normally one for getting out of bed early, and so the mist has always gone already by the time I look out the window.
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I get out of the house most afternoons, typically mid to late afternoon, but this day being extra late collided with the short days after the winter solstice. And although I went for a walk into town, I had my camera with me, and on the »