Tag Archives: nature

Drawing in the garden……

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

With the arrival of “summer” I’ve started drawing again. In previous summers I have found that the simple pleasure of being in the garden, warmed by the sun and surrounded by colour has made me want to draw. This year’s … Continue reading →

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“Looking….Seeing” a photography workshop

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

There are, currently, a plethora of wonderful workshops that specialise in overhead shots of beautifully propped and carefully prepared and presented food……………………………. but my upcoming workshop is not one of those. The programme that I’m proposing for this workshop is … Continue reading →

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Kitchen art … a new series from The French Print House

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

This portrait of a frost rimed cabbage is the first in a series of prints that I will be producing and which will be available as a limited edition, signed giclée print from The French Print House. The series will … Continue reading →

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..things that are and things to come…

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

Grey skies and flat light during yesterday’s stroll, around our tiny hamlet of La Moussière, signally failed to obscure the magic that was hidden under a thin veneer of dullness. Looking for pictures is my foraging. The locations of the … Continue reading →

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seeing the light…….

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Food,Photography & France

This picture is as clear an illustration of the nature of digital photography as you’re likely to see. The digital photography to which I’m referring is not the one whose algorithms quickly produce the pleasing image that you see on … Continue reading →

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Photography holiday in the Vendée for food lovers …..Oct 11-14

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Food,Photography & France

October is a good time to be in the Sud Vendée, a comparatively little known part of France, where I have been contentedly living for the last 20 years. The weather will be warm and nature will be starting to … Continue reading →

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et dieu crea la reine claude…

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

As I ate my five hundredth greengage of the day I began to ponder on aw and awe and concluded  how awful, meaningless and fucking annoying is the current use of awesome as a superlative particularly if Oh My God … Continue reading →

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on having and eating cake…

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

A very depressing aphorism suggests that one cannot have one’s cake and eat it which seems contradictory to me as the sole chance of eating one’s cake is indeed to have it, if only for that short time until it has … Continue reading →

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taking the piss….

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

Manneken Pis, Pissenlit, Pisse-Dru, Tant Pis, Pissaladiere…there’s something very French about pissing; about not searching for a convenient bush or shady corner but just having a piss when the moment takes you.  I should make it clear that this is singularly, … Continue reading →

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forget-me-nots…..

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

It doesn’t take much to make us humans gush or, indeed, to outpour. We gush or outpour at the drop of a hat or , hat dropping aside, whenever a taste, a face, a place, a smell or a moment unlocks a bitter or … Continue reading →

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