The Sketchbook

The first port of call on my recent visit to London’s Open House event was the Trinity Buoy Wharf development featuring the Container City as its main centrepiece. With the hope for good sunshine I decided to head there first on my visit – a very long journey which started at 5.30am from my first bus into Nottingham City Centre , to getting off […]

Saturday afternoon saw Nottingham play host to parade  featuring fashion models – all dressed with collections from a massive variety of independent fashion designers based within the city. The event was organised , by  organized by OneBC and Suzi Henson of Eternal Spirits. to run in parallel to the main Nottingham Fashion Week – this year not featuring the works of indepedent brands from the city. This […]

A week or so ago what was , on the face of it , a dull Thursday morning was spent exploring Wollaton Park , Nottingham for a breather and a good walk. Sometimes it’s just good to to and explore for a bit. Am beginning to stretch my boundaries somewhat , making the most of a positive change , living away from parents for […]

A look at some bracken ferns under autumnal sunlight at Wollaton Park , Nottingham , 16th October 2016. You can visit a place many times , and yet find a new way of seeing that place each time you go along – and this set is borne out of that. On the day and at the time the sunlight was perfectly placed to backlight […]

A cathartic look at this year’s edition of Goose Fair – this time around I only got to have a look at the Saturday evening action , with the fair proving to be as popular as ever – with plenty of busy crowds Having been very busy with other commitments I’d found myself unable to spend quite as much time as I’d have liked […]

A playful take from a couple of weeks ago of the Park-facing entrance of the Park Tunnel , Nottingham. Who says photographs have to be tack sharp? 😉 Sharpness , and the lack of it can be a relative thing.  I was able to toy with creating “multiple exposures” – by holding the camera still for a small part of the exposure , then […]

Just before my latest rowing assignment on Saturday I had a brief opportunity to take a look at some great street art being painted on the shutters of long-derelict units within Sneinton Market , Nottingham , currently undergoing regeneration. Prominent local graffiti artists were invited as part of the “Bloc Party” event hosted by Surface Gallery in Nottingham , which also included some fun […]

Here’s a look back at yesterday’s rally organised by the People’s Assembly in Nottingham in the wake of the success of the Leave campaign in last week’s EU referendum. Unfortunately it seems as if the decision to leave the EU was influenced by a xenophobic mindset nationally in the wake of recent austerity , and it is precisely this which is being protested here […]

An imposing statue of the Emperor Constantine, in front of an imposing facade of the York Cathedral were tools with which I was able to play around quite a bit here in this mini-essay and series. Forced perspective can be a very fun storytelling tool , especially with extremely wide lenses which frame up a large area , allowing me to really work very […]