Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Blurred Out
In the sleeping hours of last Monday along York’s River Ouse, shrugging off the foggy, fuzzing and whirring night air, I attempted to photograph the 2015 supermoon lunar eclipse. I failed – the fog...
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Obscured
The 2015 supermoon lunar eclipse – the rare conjunction of a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon turned red in the full shadow of the Earth, and a ‘supermoon’, where the Moon...
Trying to Catch the Perseids
In two sessions, on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, I stood out by York’s Millennium Bridge and watched and waited patiently and attempted to catch on camera the Perseids. The Millennium Bridge is...
Miscellaneous Photo Series I
A disparate collection of photographs here, taken in different places over a period of several months, less a series than a frayed string. There are sixteen in all: the first a group...
Amsterdam Photo Series: Ons Buiten and Around
Ons Buiten (literally ‘Our Outside’) is the name for a collective of garden parks across the Netherlands, whose Amsterdam branch is on the southern outskirts of the city: situated along the northern...
Amsterdam Photo Series: Prinsengracht and Noordermarkt
Prinsengracht is the outer canal, and therefore the longest, of the four major canals which together comprise Amsterdam’s canal belt. Its northwesterly section passes by Westerkerk, Amsterdam’s famous Dutch Protestant church, designed by...
Nine Photographs of the Mist; and One Video of a Lake
As a sort of coda or poetic epilogue to the series of photographs of Sweden which I posted last week, here are ten visuals: nine photographs of the late-evening mist, and one...
Midsummer in Skellefteå, Sweden
Midsommarafton and Midsommardagen together comprise one of the central holidays in the Swedish calendar. With its beginnings in ancient pagan fertility rites, Midsummer in Sweden remains tied to longstanding practices: traditionally occurring...
Amsterdam Photo Series: Schinkel and Nieuwe Meer
Amsterdam is most often defined pictorially by the canal houses which line the canals in the centre of the city. Yet there is a great variety of housing across the extent the...