Decades ago I went to a local air show – so local I walked to it. Frugal days that they were, I ran off one roll of Kodak Gold 400 in my...

Back in the woods again. Just minutes before leaving to go to our local wood, my mother suddenly took ill and passed out in her kitchen....

When I last moved house back in 2006 I lost quite a number of images that I’d burned to CD. I'd learned the hard way about backing up securely! The wrong box was thrown out. The image above was a shot I'd always liked. All I could find was the tiny 370 x 550 copy I’d used on my first website. It was taken on the Canon EOS 300D (see below) during a visit to the Ulster Folk Museum in summer 2004. This lady was reenacting life in the late 1800s by making bread the old fashioned

If you think you’re in reasonably good health, keep to a sensible diet and have no significant heart, back or joint problems, maybe you should think about training with weights for general fitness. Free-standing weights offer significant advantages over other training methods. Many are uncomfortable with the concept of jogging—or whatever the trendy health gurus are calling it this year. Our joints probably won’t thank us for the concentrated abuse. For the average person, wa

This was something of a failed shoot. Try as we might, the wee baby stayed blissfully asleep. Megan will be 27 very soon and is getting...

Taking the time to enjoy the experience. Now and then when I’m in a Wordsworthian “pensive mood”, I think of something my uncle once...