Colour Swatches, Bexhill-on-Sea It looked to me as though Nature couldn’t quite make up its mind about the sunrise this morning but went through the whole paint box trying out various shades and hues to see what might work best for the main event. Being a man of...
Warm Summer Evening, Bexhill-on-Sea I noticed the other morning when I was photographing this lovely old colonnade on the Bexhill seafront that its moon-like lamp globes, which had been missing for ages, had been replaced at last. They’d been smashed by vandals months...
The Pleasures of Navigating With A Map Here’s how I find my way around our labyrinthine Sussex lanes – a good old-fashioned fold-out map, that is when I’m not just going by guess and by golly as I very often do. I like maps, always have. They are tactile, decorative,...
Early Thursday Morning, Cambridge Road, Hastings For some time I have been fascinated by the graphic possibilities in this row of old houses along Cambridge Road, coming up out of Hastings. In their blocky simplicity and strong colours they remind of Edward Hopper’s...
The English Seaside: Postcards from The Edge Travels at Home: Postcards From The Edge – For some time now I’ve wanted to find an image that would illustrate at a glance the notion of travelling at home, in my case the faded old seaside town of St Leonards-on-Sea and...
A Curious Connection – JMW Turner and the Bicycle I like to think that if JMW Turner ever painted a cycling scene he might have come up with something like this. Alas, he never did. Turner died in 1851, some thirty-four years before another Englishman, John Kemp...
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