One of the main reasons why I join photo communities like Ipernity is to learn from others. I can learn simply from looking at other peoples work but I also think that CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is important and would help me to understand how I can improve. When I first took up photography numpty seven…

10 years ago / 1 833 visits / 13 comments / 4 people like

As a present, we’d bought my son a day’s tuition in rally driving and had gone along to watch. It was a cold, rainy day. The course was on a disused airfield. It was completely flat and the wind howled across the landscape, but we were relatively warm and dry. Spectators were given use of a portacab…

11 years ago / 1 583 visits / 16 comments / 3 people like

Neil, my son, had not long started school, which makes him about five or six. One day he came home, after having had a Religious Instruction lesson and started to ask questions. “Dad”, he said “I don’t understand about God” “Well son, what don’t you understand”, I replied with a little trepidation.…

11 years ago / 1 613 visits / 5 comments / 5 people like

About three years ago I visited Mexico for the wedding of our son, Neil, to Kerry. After six days lying on a beach, albeit a very nice beach, I was pretty bored. So six of us booked an excursion to the Mayan ruins at Coba. The excursion included a morning’s “activities”. When we enquired what this m…

11 years ago / 777 visits / 7 comments / 2 people like

I've reached that certain age when certain little things peeve me. My wife (bless her) tells me that it's the Age of the Grumpy Old Man. I thought you might like to hear one of those things. I’m in the newsagents. I’ve bought a daily paper. I take it to the cash desk to pay. Where there is a long…

11 years ago / 692 visits / 9 comments / 5 people like

There I was, lying on a white sandy beach with the tropical sun beating down on my back, listening to the gentle hiss of the surf. Beside me lay a stunningly beautiful, nubile, young blonde girl, nearly wearing a bikini and gently caressing the hair on the back of my neck. I rolled over to kiss her…

11 years ago / 578 visits / 6 comments / 2 people like

I hate shopping at the supermarket. Some of you may not understand this aversion. Let me explain. It’s not the act of picking food and drink from the shelves that I mind. This is, indeed, quite pleasurable, imagining the promise of tastes and flavours in the days ahead, but as you stroll around pus…

11 years ago / 555 visits / 8 comments / 5 people like

In my humble opinion, Flickr was in need of a change. It was creaking at the seams, getting ever slower and frequently misbehaving. To be honest, I had also gone stale, posting less and less and just going through the motions. So, Flickr, or more correctly Yahoo, made sweeping changes. Unfortunately…

11 years ago / 720 visits / 9 comments / 2 people like