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Category Archives: Dreams
A life in photography….
As a preamble, that I’ve been inspired, after seeing an article about Light, a brand new technology camera company, to write a piece about my career and how it evolved through traditional analogue cameras to current digital technology to which I am in thrall. I don’t have many clear … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, Dreams, fashion, Film, Food photographer, France, Memory, Photography, Photoshop, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged 1968, clear thinking, Clive Arrowsmith, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Hasselblad, Humour, Light Camera, Nikon, Pen F, photographic media, Photography, Sinar, social networking, studio photography, writing
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Hobson’s egg….
Given the choice, we humans will invariably choose to have a choice. The more extensive the list of choices may be, the more highly we regard that which is on offer. Not withstanding, that in this time of ours, knowledge has … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Bad Habits, Bad luck, Digital photography, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Good luck, Google, Humour, Illusion, Luck, Reality, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged allegory, Choice, clear thinking, digital photography, Henry Ford, Hobson's Choice, Humour, knowledge, lack of knowledge, Morton's Fork, Photography, pratfall, simple logic, social networking, writing, you can't always get what you want
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on a wing and a préau….
The longing, in this month of April, for the warmth of summer is with me for an unseemly proportion of my waking and dreaming moments. A longing that has me limping along these final few furlongs of heavy going before winter, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, artichokes, Bay leaves, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Coriander, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Dreams, Drinks, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Olive oil, Photographic Prints, Photography, Recipes, summer, Thyme, Uncategorized, Weather, wine, Writing
Tagged artichokes a la greque, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography, recipe, simple logic, social networking, Spring, Summer, writing
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feeling like a plum in Agen….
Nothing concentrates my mind more than nothing. After a short time, the nothing of this pale rain distorted image seen through the windscreen as I waited for something yesterday, took me away to another moment in time when I sat waiting and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, Dreams, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Reality, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Agen, break downs, car insurance, clear thinking, day dreaming, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, landscapes, Photography, Photography course, train journeys, writing
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The cat’s bollocks and other tales…..
The woolly hat pulled down around my ears efficiently protected them from the chill of the biting wind but failed miserably in filtering out the piercing cries of an enraged cat in a cage being carted off for castration. Molly, the cat in … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Chicken, Chicken, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Recipes, Roast Chicken, sage, sea salt, Sex, Simon Hopkinson, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged Castration, cat, Cats, clear thinking, Cock Robin, cookery books, cooking, digital photography, dreams, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Humour, Lidls, misty morning, Photography, Photography course, Poulet de Bresse, recipe, Roast chicken, Simon Hopkinson, writing
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Glum rock..
I confess that I had been feeling like a hound dog for some days, crying all the time. Not tears of woe but tears of fucking desperation as it had become apparent to me that my new internet server had … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Bistro, Bouchon, Cheese, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Dreams, Eggs, Excellence, Fish, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, Oeufs meurette, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged Bouchons, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, digital photography, dreams, food, Food photographer, France, GUM, Hound dog, Humour, Lyon, Photography course, restaurants, writing
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Waking to the dream….
Today should be all right. After all, it’s only the first day of the holiday which means that holiday world is fresh and new and free from stings and arguments. This is the first morning of waking to a sparkling blue … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, Dreams, Expectation, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Humour, Photography, photography course, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, blue skies, Breakfast, clear thinking, croissants, digital photography, Dreaming, food photographers, France, gite in France, Holiday time, Humour, infinity pool, landscapes, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, Summer, summer holidays, vacation, Vendee, writing
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saying the C word loudly…..CLUCK, OH CLUCKING CLUCK
I can well understand the clucking of hens a laying and I am in awe of the stoicism that prevents them from declaring more stridently.Just considering the concept of a life spent passing objects the size of one’s head ( … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Boiled eggs, Breakfast, cafe, Cooking, Digital photography, Dreams, Drinks, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hard boiled eggs, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, French market, hard boiled egg, Hens' teeth, Humour, Muscadet, palate, Photography, Photography course, red wine, Stoicism, writing
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Peaches and dream..
Something as delicious as a bowl of peaches in the sun is to be sniffed at. The scent that rises from peaches drinking sunlight intoxicates as the flesh beneath their velvet covering softens and melts with the suffusion of nectar making the first … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Breakfast, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Garden, Mediterranean food, peaches, Photography, photography course, Sex, Still life, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Adam and Eve, affair, Breakfast, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nectar, Peachiness, Photography, Photography course, Summer, writing
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Clinging on in heavy syrup….a wet dream
On most nights I have a dream and, although in my waking moments I have begun to forget everyone and everything’s name, I very often retain a clear image of some tiny fragment of each night’s unconstrained meanderings. This morning’s memory … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Bad Habits, Childhood, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, peaches, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, clear thinking, Cling peaches, Cling peaches in syrup, digital photography, dreams, Evaporated milk, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, Photography course, Privacy, Tinned fruit, Tuck boxes, writing
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Food, Photography & France 