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I made this quick, street photography like, photo the other day, and in doing so it reminded me that Dorchester has a long history including the Romans – I had a few frames to finish off a roll in my “camera for February.. ” the Nikon F3, so I made a quick tour to re-visitContinue reading “Roman Dorchester”

Well you’ve heard of the “Pink Cadillac” this is the “Blue Buick”! A couple years back I went to the Henstridge (Somerset) “Wings and Wheels” event. The airfield was built during the Second World War as a training base for the Fleet Air Arm, which commissioned it as HMS Dipper. The MoD sold the airfieldContinue reading “Blue Buick”

As I’ve mentioned before, I spent February with the Nikon F3. Our local national trust property is Kingston Lacy. It always has a great showing of snowdrops, and early spring flowers, so I headed there with the F3 with the 55mm Micro attached! The last time I visited Kingston Lacy I used a roll ofContinue reading “Nikon F3, Micro 55mm and flowers”

I walk past this sculpture most days on my walk from the car to work. It is in Durngate street in Dorchester and celebrates the “quiet heroism and wisdom of pastoralists”. It is by the artist John Doubleday. He seems to face the rising sun, and has his trusty dog at his feet. I madeContinue reading “The Dorset Shepherd”

At the start of the year I decided that I would try to concentrate use on one of my cameras each month. I decided that my “new to me” Nikon F3 would be first. The plan got off to a bad start as I had a bad back for pretty much the whole of January,Continue reading “February with the F3”

When I go into Poole, my local town of size, and now my closest Santander Bank location, I have a set walk that I do. Down the main high street to the quayside, along to the end, which morphs into park, under a railway bridge, then back into Poole Park which is where I usuallyContinue reading “Buses”

This post carries on almost seamlessly from the last, this though, has a little more of my childhood ramblings involved, so beware! I found myself staying in Butlins Holiday Park, Minehead, Somerset, for a 80’s music weekend, as one does. Rather like a Jekyll and Hyde figure, in the evenings I was making pictures ofContinue reading “Minehead with the Pentax ME Super”

The date is 21st February 2042, somehow I’ve made it the age of 73! While sitting on the sofa I just popped in to the camera shop and picked up a couple of rolls of film. The VR goggles, are like me, getting a bit old but they still can do the job just about!Continue reading “A post from the Future”

I like the seaside, British resorts especially. Seagulls screeching, candy floss, brightly coloured plastic buckets and spades, and fish and chips – it’s a certain vibe that I’ve never come across anywhere else, quite the same. Into the later Autumn however they take on a deserted, slightly “void of life” feel that I find aContinue reading “British Seaside”