An opportunity to spend time photographing Oxford arose just before Christmas. My good virtual friend, Doddsie (Neil Dodd) was visiting from Switzerland as he was attending a course at Oxford. Neil and I take part in the well regarded Internet production, ‘the…
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From my social media feeds, you would think that the whole of Birmingham was at the High Vis Festival. The date was released with much anticipation and then the BBC Midlands today programme ratcheted up the excitement several notches more by featuring…
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I had this desire to take a sunset photograph at the seaside. With the pandemic, it has been a long time since I have seen the sea. Natasha and Rob were married in Kos, Greece last year and I saw the sea…
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Coventry is the City of Culture for 2021. This prestigious title runs from May 2021 to May 2022 and it follows on from Derry/Londonderry in 2013 and Hull in 2017. Taking my first train for over a year, I set off from…
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Lockdown 3 is easing and in early April, I found myself back in Digbeth to take a look at what was happening. One reason was to look for the new Street art project by @Fokawolf but more of that later. I parked…
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Being published as an academic was always a high point of my career and the old phrase “publish or perish” is so true. Publishing your work was necessary to advance your career. I had published many papers in the dental world and…
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As you will have seen I have been stopping off in Birmingham on my way to work and taking pictures of the City. There is a real opportunity to get some pictures of the place and often highlight the lockdown with the…
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Another of my regular visits to Digbeth found me taking pictures of a few of my favourite street art murals. I also got to see several new paintings as well. Recent visits have been anything but normal and this visit was taken…
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It was a beautiful Autumn day when I visited Coventry for a photowalk. I chose Coventry as I had not been there for a while and I wanted to see the old and new cathedrals. The other monument that I wanted to…
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Running was and still is a big part of my life. When the dental hospital was operating out of the Queensway site then we used to take the opportunity to run up to the Soho loop along the Birmingham Canal Old Line.…
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My photographic assignment for my 52 week Flickr group was to photograph Graffiti. This gave me the excuse to visit Digbeth on a bright Sunday morning. My first stop was Meriden Street to look at the graffiti done by the streetartist Gent48 on the…
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Venturing into Digbeth proved to be very interesting. I had a project to do on street art and therefore I wanted to get pictures around Digbeth. Sunday morning seemed to be a good time to venture forth now that government rules had enabled you…
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