My 200th Blog Post!

Welcome to my 200th blog post! This really is a landmark moment for me and I'm surprised at how important constructing the posts each week has become. I can't quite believe how many words and pictures I've put out there over the last couple of years. A massive thank you whether you are a regular reader or occasionally dip into this blog, I love sharing my thoughts and photographs and keep going because of the encouragement and kind words.

I reckon that every hundredth post can be some form of self portrait, or selfie as they've become known. If you missed my 100th blog post please have a look here:

My 100th Blog Post!

I popped back to Fred Aldous in Manchester armed with some cameras and discovered they now have an original colour chemical passport machine too, so hey presto:

To my mind these machines have much more soul than the modern digital ones that have replaced them and I love the iconic orange or blue background curtains that draw across to give you a splash of colour.

The four cameras are from my continuously growing collection which went past the 30 mark sometime ago. I can't help it, its hereditary!

Can you identify the cameras? Leave me a message or if you want to keep it analogue, answers on a postcard...

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A Lovely Pair of Pins

I knew the expression 'pins' referring to legs but had to Google what the Cockney rhyming slang comes from. It looks like 'pins & pegs', but there are some great alternatives like 'bacon & eggs' and 'dolly pegs'. I think I might start trying to incorporate more Cockney into my everyday speak, I do have London roots but they are more South (Saff) London than East London, where I think it originates. Anyway this is all to illustrate a new picture that sits quite neatly with an older picture. So brogues, legs and a sea view from my two main muses. This might be turning into a set... Oh by the way the top view is Morecambe Bay and the lower image is from The Wirral looking across towards Wales. The North West of England is a beautiful place, with some stylish residents.

Liverpool Periphery

L1 City Centre L2 City Centre L3 City Centre, Everton, Vauxhall L4 Anfield, Kirkdale, Walton L5 Anfield, Everton, Kirkdale, Vauxhall L6 Anfield, City Centre, Everton, Fairfield, Kensington, Tuebrook L7 City Centre, Edge Hill, Fairfield, Kensington L8 City Centre, Dingle Toxteth L9 Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park, Walton L10 Aintree Village, Fazakerley L11 Croxteth, Clubmoor, Gillmoss, Norris Green

Exquisite Corpse

I've gathered this project together here, although it really just started as instagram posts and me keeping myself entertained/ creative through the early weeks of the pandemic. On reflection, although it looks visually different from my usual work (black and white rather than a focus on colour) the themes that emerge are similar. This is how I've made sense of it: These images are inspired by the exquisite corpse parlour game first played by the surrealists around the time of the 1918 pandemic. In my interpretation each picture is a self-portrait made up of my silhouette and graphic elements found on my Lockdown daily walks in the suburban landscape around me. Living alone I soon realised the only human form I was seeing on a regular basis was my own shadow. I started making these images using my phone camera and a selection of simple apps at the beginning of the first Covid Lockdown and continued until things returned to some kind of normality in mid 2021. I didn’t leave my p

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