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The colour purple – a visit to Warwickshire Lavender Farm
A new Lavender field to visit. Warwickshire Lavender Fields is behind Coventry airport nestled in the beautiful countryside that remains between Coventry and Leamington Spa. The fields are relatively young and started out in 2016. Several photographic friends has told me about the fields and having done the Cotswolds Lavender fields, the family thought a fields closer to … Continue reading Blog
Ozzy on the final road to a new home, the bull is back
Since the Bull was unveiled in a spectacular showpiece at the Commonwealth Games in the summer of 2022, the Birmingham public haven fallen in love with him. As soon as the opening ceremony was over, the Bull was brought to Centenary Square where thousands of people came to view him. His popularity was immense, and this soon … Continue reading Blog
IgersbirminghamUK invited by Friends of Edgbaston Reservoir to hold an Instameet.
Edgbaston reservoir started life in 1827 as a water supply to top up the local canal network around Birmingham and the Black Country. Originally called “Roach Pool”, it was enlarged by Thomas Telford, the influential engineer between 1824 –1829, to become the large expanse of water that it is now. Whilst the place still does this important function for … Continue reading Blog
Please put the sails back on Chesterton windmill
Chesterton windmill has featured in my blog over the years. The windmill is a popular structure sitting on top of a prominent hill in Warwickshire just outside Leamington Spa. You can just see the windmill from the M40 motorway, but you need to be a passenger as your eyes have to search for it in the landscape. During … Continue reading Blog
Day out to the Confetti fields and Pershore old bridge
There is a rush of colour to the eyes when you first see the Confetti Fields in Wick near Pershore. The family have been going to the fields since 2018 and every time the colours of the flowers surprise me. The delphinium flowers are white, purple, pink, or lilac blue. They are set out in lines … Continue reading Blog
Visiting and photographing Maxstoke Castle
Maxstoke Castle is very distinctive built in red brick with all the requirements for being a castle on the checklist. There are walls and towers with a large moat circling the building. Inside there are living quarters and gardens. Maxstoke is said to be very unusual because the castle is still the same as when … Continue reading Blog
Photographing the West Midlands Police Museum
When the dental hospital was on St Chad’s Queensway, one of the places I was always walking past was the lock-up cells on Steelhouse lane. The Police Station was active and the cells in the lockup were still being used till 2016. There was always lots of activity around there with police vans and officers moving around … Continue reading Blog
A spectacular poppy field in Bewdley
The alarm went at 3.30am and it was time to haul myself out of bed. I was going on a journey of 50 minutes to a field in Bewdley, Worcestershire. There were reports of poppies in the field near to Blackstone nature reserve. Sunrise was at 4:54am so I needed to get there promptly. … Continue reading Blog
Joy and happiness at Birmingham Pride 2023
This was my first Birmingham Pride parade. I am not sure why I had not been before, and I suspect that I thought that it would be somewhat predictable. Far from it. The whole parade was a wonderful colourful spectacle with so many happy people around. These happy people were not worried about having their … Continue reading Blog