2nd week into challenge of going out with one fixed lens on one day, with one theme in mind. Today the camera was the Fuji x100S with a 23mm lens and the area visited was Central Preston, around Winkley Square. This Georgian Square was established in 1801 as an exclusive Read more…
This week’s self-imposed challenge was to go to the park with a fixed lens (Fuji XF 18mm) and come back with three reasonable images of bridges. Since the main railway line out of Preston crosses over the park and the river Ribble borders the park, this didn’t seem too hard. Read more…
Going to try to pick a theme a week for this photoblog…..wow….that’s 52 different subjects in a year. This week’s theme is “Sitting on the Front Row of the Prom”, but with no deck-chairs as it’s out of season and everything taken on the same mile or two of coast Read more…
Brrrrrrr!!! Fresh air, exercise, coffee, a pastry or two …….. first stop Lytham and then onto the seafront at Cleveleys. When the sea defences were repaired recently,a grant was secured at the same time to regenerate the coast through the Arts. The “Cleveleys Mythological Coastline” is part of a national Read more…
Haslingden Grane : an abandoned community. This valley was home to around 1500 people in the mid-19th century, with 600 in the village and the rest in dozens of farms and hamlets. By the 1920’s almost everyone had left due to decreasing opportunities for employment and the creation of three Read more…