Blog Posts

Inspire Gifts and Gallery

10/9/2018

I'm not very good at blogging!
I never got round to posting about our joint exhibition at Inspire - a wonderful gift shop and gallery on New Street in Lancaster! However the other 2 pictures are more topical: they are currently on display in the window - to tie in with Lancaster's Festa Italia.

Warton Crag from Silverdale

1/5/2018

There's plenty of variety in this 8 mile walk which takes in coastal cliffs, and the summit of Warton Crag. Although much of the route follows clear paths, tracks or roads, there are some steep sections involving scrambles up rocky outcrops.
Free web version:
http://www.gandljdean.co.uk/rambling/WartonCrag.html

Kindle version:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B07CSNNP7H/

The River Lune: Hornby to Arkholme

11/4/2018

It's taken me nearly 2 months to upload this walking route - and we haven't managed to do a decent walk since - must try harder! Click the image to open the route description.

The River Lune: Hornby to Arkholme

11/4/2018

Other People's Art

1/2/2018

Click here to view the exhibition gallery

It's about 4 years since I realised that I had quite a collection of manipulated photographs of sculptures - so I submitted the idea for an exhibition to a gallery not a million miles from where we now live. Alas it was turned down (though later I was invited to be involved in a group exhibition at the same venue - this prompted me to take (and manipulate) more sculpture images!

The pictures in this exhibition date from the 1990s (Hang on Mum is the oldest and originated on slide film! The most recent is Seahorses featuring Eric Gill's iconic sculpture from the Midland Hotel, Morecambe.

Some of the images were simple and easy to shoot - but Speed involved numerous visits to Liverpool to take the image when the light was right. Hang on Mum had been planned over 12 months in advance, waiting for the right lighting conditions on a Sunday. It was shot from stepladders with Lin out of shot guarding the teddy bear (yes, it was in the picture when I shot it - it's not a digital addition!

It wasn't until I was reviewing images that I'd taken of The Dream that I realised the cloud formation looked like a "thought bubble" - unfortunately I didn't have a photograph of the pit head gear that used to stand on this site, so I used one from Ashington, Northumberland.

Whilst our younger daughter lived in Lincoln, I had walked past Empowerment many times, but the sun never caught it at the right angle (or wasn't shining at all). It wasn't until judging at a local camera club where someone had entered a picture with the sun really emphasising the lines on the lower figure that I realised I'd just never walked past at the right time! I took it at an angle so as not to include nearby buildings - and presented it with the statues at the angle they really are (more or less).

The First Walk of 2018 - Crummack Dale and Sulber Nick

17/1/2018

We didn't complete many walks worth writing up last year - 2018 has got off to a better start. We had a brilliant winter day for this 8 mile route.

Route photographs and descriptions
Kindle version

It's all about the Bay

25/11/2017

Delighted to have been invited to have first joint exhibition with Lin - on now - we hung 22 pictures yesterday morning. Copies of mine can be seen on the Morecambe Bay galley page. To see examples of lin's work, visit her By the Bay Facebook page.

Photographs published in Kendal Living magazine

2/11/2017

Several of my images appear in the winter edition of Kendal Living magazine, from page 10.

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=ff00ed37-1a2f-4958-8cb8-0904c4d24b79

Images at exhibitions in and around Morecambe, October 2017

6/10/2017

It's not often that I have so many images displayed in different exhibitions - click on the thumbnails to find out which location is displaying which picture. The four locations are:

Morecambe Camera Club Exhibition, Morecambe Library;
The Golden Teapot, Regent Road - part of West End Art Trail;
Overton Open, Edge Gallery, The Ship, Overton;
Art Against Fracking, The Whale Tail, Lancaster.

Four walks and Four Craft Fairs ...

20/9/2017

Where does time go? It was when reading a friend's blog that I realised I hadn't updated my blog since March! Since when I've sold photographs at 4 craft fairs (at the fantastic Vintage Festival in Morecambe and at 3 events organised by the Bay Craft Collective at Heysham Heritage Centre).

There have also been 3 more Kindle book, walk descriptions - and an additional one only available from the website.

I've also had picture displayed at Morecambe Artist Colony's Members Exhibition and taken part in a group exhibition at Carnforth Station Heritage Centre (with Johnny Bean and R Simon Dalton).