Sidelines
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Going physical
In which I get out there in meat-space.
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One day my prints did come!
In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.
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Year of Getting Stuff Out There
2017 is to be my ‘Year of Getting Stuff Out There’.
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The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
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An atheist somehow manages to tell right from wrong
To think of all the deliciously immoral acts I could have been getting up to today, if only it had occurred to me I needn’t be impeded by any sense of right or wrong.
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Notes from Nell Carr Farm
‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.
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Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think
Struggling to identify a species is the best way to learn.
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Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges
In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden’s Other Bridges’.
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Announcing my new photobook, ‘Hebden’s Other Bridges’
My photo-book of bridges in the Hebden Bridge area is now available.
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Keswick Woods
In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.