Winter is of course when starlings give their astonishing, if brief, afternoon performances as the light fades. Here are a few from the strange marshy lands around Wem in north Shropshire. All these pictures are as shot, with no image manipulation.
Everyday Surrealism
Something that is perhaps unique to photography is the ability to select and record the comic and surreal happenings of everyday life - though on this occasion I feel that Magritte got there first
11/11/2018
Marching through Presteigne on the centenary of the end of the Great War
The Hills Are Alive . . .
with old sports cars and their owners. Cloth caps, goggles and mud everywhere as the VSCC descends on Presteigne for its annual rally.
Scaffolders
Earlier this year I was commissioned to document the large-scale renovation of a big private house in Britain. Lately I’ve been enjoying watching the team of scaffolders as they complete their enormous task of constructing a huge and intricate web of metal around and over the whole building.