PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge Long before I moved to Lincolnshire I was familiar with the names Welland and Nene. A teenage interest in aircraft...

click photo to enlarge In the UK finding new uses for old industrial or commercial buildings often results in them being converted into liv...

click photo to enlarge The names given to rivers are some of the oldest words to be found in the British Isles. Many of them are pre-Celt...

click photo to enlarge I recently read Peter Ackroyd's fine book, "Thames: Sacred River", a work that examines the river ...

click photo to enlarge Recently, as I was looking through my 2012 collection of photographs, I got to thinking about basic natural, seaso...

click photo to enlarge A run of days with blue skies, temperatures in the upper 20s Celsius, and a high sun during the main part of the ...

click photo to enlarge The other evening, with a friend, I gave a talk to a group in the village about photography. We divided the alpha...

click photo to enlarge I sub-title this blog, "Photographs and reflections from Lincolnshire, England", so it's perhaps about ...

click photo to enlarge Spalding in Lincolnshire, that is, and the river is the Welland. In fact this short river, only 35 miles long, that r...

click photo to enlarge In a recent post I talked about the difficulties and disatisfaction that can come from photography during the middle...

click photo to enlarge The earliest stone bridges in Britain - the clapper bridges - are simply large pieces of stone that span streams: so...

click photo to enlarge On a recent walk at Deeping St James I passed the point on the bank of the River Welland where I'd taken a photo...

click photo to enlarge In my working past I sometimes used to talk to groups of children about the importance of good manners. To illustrate...

click photo to enlarge Last weekend I followed the course of the River Welland from the outskirts of Deeping St James to the centre of Marke...

click photo to enlarge You're walking through the countryside and your path leads to a bridge over a river or a stream. You walk forward...

click photo to enlarge The other day, as I stood on a footbridge over the River Welland in Stamford, Lincolnshire, I thought about fishing -...