Street photography

Is it Christmas yet? Birmingham thinks it is!
Birmingham

Is it Christmas yet? Birmingham thinks it is!

Amazingly, I have not written a blog about the German Christmas market in Birmingham. I have taken pictures of the Christmas markets but many of them are single photos on my social streams. My first observation is that the markets are set…

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The Ringway Centre and the legacy of brutalist Birmingham
Birmingham

The Ringway Centre and the legacy of brutalist Birmingham

 Carchitecture is the architectural term where buildings and cars influence each other on the design of a city.  Birmingham is a prime example of this form of architecture planning.  The city suffered extensive bombing during the war and there were opportunities to plan a…

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Up and down the Old Man of Coniston
Travel

Up and down the Old Man of Coniston

We always plan for countryside walks or mountain climbs for our family holidays. Whilst in Scotland, we climbed Ben Lomond and when in Hereford we travelled to the Welsh border to climb the Cats Back. In the Lakes there are many fells…

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Feel the force at Colwith Force, Little Langdale
Travel

Feel the force at Colwith Force, Little Langdale

Our family holidays took place at Lowfield House in Little Langdale, the Lake District. I will cover several days out in the area and the first subject of my writing are my photographs of Colwith Force on the river Brathay. The waterfall…

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High Vis 2023 celebrating 50 years of HipHop
Canals

High Vis 2023 celebrating 50 years of HipHop

The Printworks on Fazeley street was the venue for this year’s High Vis festival.  The event celebrated 50 years of HipHop bringing together Birmingham’s street artists and dancers.  I went along on the Saturday afternoon and many of the street artists were nearing the…

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St Chad’s Cathedral welcomes IgersbirminghamUK
Birmingham

St Chad’s Cathedral welcomes IgersbirminghamUK

St Chad’s Cathedral was the setting for an IgersbirminghamUK Instameet on a wet Saturday morning. Storm Antoni was passing through and the rain was non-stop.  I joked with the photographers that we had made the decision to go for the inside walkabout rather…

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