[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 28 December 2023].
into the fold
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 19 December 2023].
looking north (from henley bridge)
ely
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 12 October 2023].
I have so many photographs I took during a road trip with my parents in 2017 that I haven't yet had a chance to edit.
I'm trying to fix that (not to mention trying to work through editing all the other photographs I have from other holidays or day trips with them over the years).
It was Mum's last international trip. Her dementia was evident during that visit and even more jarring for me as I hadn't seen her in person since our road trip through Belgium in 2014.
an utter shambles
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 22 March 2023].
Here's a selection of photographs I took in The Shambles - Shambles and Little Shambles - in York during a visit in 2012.
Though I've visited York multiple times, I didn't know where the name came from.
As a vegetarian for almost 30 years, the revelation of where the name originated was interesting.
From Wikipedia: "Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market. Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption.
As you can see, even in 2012, that name was no longer descriptive of the shops that populated the area. And on a quick search, the nearby market doesn't sell much meat either.
a mathematical bridge
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 30 December 2022].
leeds castle
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 6 September 2022].
Leeds Castle in Kent. Taken in May this year during a visit with friends.
neon chicks
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 23 June 2022].
s.p.q.b.
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 22 April 2022].
'Senatus Populus Que Brugensis' means 'the Senate and the people of Bruges'.
It can be found on the Bruges coat of arms and an ornate water pump featuring a swan in Bruges, as I found in 2014 during my time there.
beach aster
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 15 April 2022].
frahan from afar
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 25 January 2022].
Frahan, Belgium.
rambo's
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 11 January 2022].
At first glance, this is a pretty simple photograph and perhaps a bit dull to most.
But there's so much in this photograph to make me laugh and so many layers to the scene.
And the splashes of bold primary colours thrown in adds to it.
I was going to use a phrase from one of the many signs in the image as a title, but there were too many to choose from, and I thought it was more fun to let you discover them yourself.
Bonus points to the signwriter/s for the spelling mistakes and inappropriate apostrophe use.
untitled #176
[I originally posted this entry as early access for my Patreon patrons on 19 January 2021].
So, I'm trying to be a bit more planned and less haphazard with what and how I share my work with my patrons this year.
Although there'll still be plenty of room for me to be spontaneous, I thought it would be helpful for me to have a bit of a pattern/routine in sharing some of my photography.
With that in mind, the past two Sundays I've shared early-access posts featuring newly edited images from my sepulchre series.
I'd been weighing up how to work these into a weekly programme. Having a hashtag-worthy concept without sounding too flippant, morbid, or offensive.
I'd started weighing up #CemeterySunday (I couldn't bring myself to alliterate to the point of #SematarySunday) but, being the semantic stickler I am, I couldn't settle on that. Some images would be from churchyards, graveyards or other burial places, not all would be taken in cemeteries.
I'll likely use #CemeterySunday appropriately on social media depending upon the subject. But, for Patreon, I'm thinking of this collection as #SepulchralSunday, falling back to the (now glaringly obvious) use of my overall series name for the alliterative and catchy collective term for these images.
#SepulchralSunday images will include those from my stained glass series, season's grievings curated series and any new curated series. As well as one-off photographs appropriate to the theme.
Another genre within my work 'upvoted' in my recent polls on Patreon (which are still open until the end of the month!) was my travel photography. So I'm going to default to social media type and declare this the first of my #TravelTuesday posts. It seems particularly appropriate to focus on these one day a week while most of us can't travel far from home.
As these are two genres strongly represented in much of my photography, it seems like an incentive to gradually work through editing images long overdue to see the light.
Without any particular catchy hashtag to accompany them, I'm hoping to share a more in-depth post with you each Friday. A small series of images focussing on a specific place or subject, likely accompanied by a bit more writing than I might offer on other days.
With these new plans, sepulchre and travel images won't be restricted to Sundays and Tuesdays*. But I hope they'll become regular features my patrons come to eagerly anticipate in their inbox.
Along with my new Love letters to London series, I'm hoping to write a new instalment of my postcards from another's life series to share with my patrons each month.
I have more plans for this year, but let's start with these.
And let's start with a view of Bruges taken in 2014.
*I realise that depending upon your location, these may actually be #SepulchralMonday and #TravelWednesday since I have a tendency to post in my evenings ;)
lead a marey dance
Day ninety-eight of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Horses by J. J. Grandville from Cent proverbes
unwanted attention
Day sixty-two of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Woman and man by Antonio Masutti from I misteri di Roma contemporanea, volume one
horsin' around
Day fifty-two of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Man and horses by Gustave Doré from Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, feldzüge und lustige Abentheuer des Freyherrn von Münchhausen wie er dieselben bey der Flasche im Zirkel seiner Freunde zu Erzählen pflegt. Aus dem Englischen nach der neuesten Ausgabe übersetzt, hier und da erweitert und mit noch mehr Küpfern gezieret
she is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
Day forty-five of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations:
Woman by Walter Crane from The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde
lift your spirits
Day twenty-seven of The 100 Day Project.
Illustrations: