Settle Flowerpot Festival
Had a stroll around Settle discovering the Gruffalo, Postman Pat, Dennis the Menace, Little Miss Muffet and loads of other characters –...
Vikings versus World War II
August Bank Holiday in Whitby is always a surreal time. English Heritage stage a full-on viking weekend at the Abbey, with scary battles...
Krampus Run 2021
Not having been out with camera in hand for many months thanks to Covid-19 restrictions, it was good to hit the streets and catch the...
Photobook project
Like many of us who are able to stay home and stay safe, I've been working on a project. A 250-page A4 book of my photographs is the...
Lockdown walks
The year so far has been full of chaos and distress. The 'lockdown' and lack of public events has severely curtailed any chance of being...
A Winter's Trail
The months march on and December landed with a bit of a thump. Elections, Brexit, climate crisis, Middle Eastern conflicts and the plight...
Appleby once again
Shocked to discover it has been six years since my last visit to Appleby Horse Fair. So, another visit was booked for 2019. Not a lot has...
New photobook
I've been out in the streets taking photographs of goths at their regular weekends and other fringe events in Whitby over the past...
Year of the Dressing Up Box
It seems that, as a nation, we enjoy delving into the dressing up box and parading about. This season's fashions were spotted throughout...
2017 – a busy year
It's been such a busy year that I haven't had a chance to update the blog. I managed to get to several music festivals during the summer,...
Black Snow
I was honoured to be asked to design the cover and title image for a documentary film by my good friend Professor Steve Linstead. The...
Tour de Yorkshire
Stage 3 of the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire passed through the Penistone area – the end of our road to be precise. Over 220 world-class...
Back to 1943
They say nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but the crowds around the four stations of the North Yorks Moors Steam Railway are enjoying...
More sparrows than parrots
Whitby's Tortuga Pirate Festival is now in its third year. It succeeds in raising much-needed funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. But...
Women of Steel
A wonderful and memorable morning in the company of 104 women who worked in the Sheffield steelworks. The sculpture 'Women of Steel, by...
A week in Vilnius
A friend had visited Lithuania twenty years before and related tales of poverty, starvation (well apart from a chicken fat and beetroot...
Cattle class
Malton's town centre livestock market's days are numbered. The final sales of cattle and sheep could be held within the coming months. A...
Awards at the Albert
A second visit to the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, this time in 2016, was a splendid affair. Diverse musicians...
Folk in Mallorca
My fourth stint as official photographer for the nice people at Costa del Folk took us to a water themed park in Mallorca. The mainly...
Magalluf ... megalaff
I first visited Magalluf in 1972 and stayed in the only hotel in the area. Yes, it really was all fields back then. Now it's become one...
Best in show
True to form the rain fell and the crowds jammed themselves into the huge marquees housing the chickens, handicrafts, sheepshearers,...
In the cool of the night
With the temperatures reaching 36°C to 40°C, it's no wonder that any sort of activity doesn't begin until well after the sun has retired...
Dancing in the streets
A week of folk music and morris dancing isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it certainly seems to be a hit in the streets of Whitby. This...
Tritons terrorise town centre
Our good chums Ric and Martin, usually dressed as grannies and scooting around on shopping trolleys, are this week mostly being undersea...
