PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge I grew up in a valley on one side of which were, nearby, high, rugged hills and on the other lower hills with a mo...

click photo to enlarge Sometimes it's the depth of the blue in the sky, other times its the lurid green of the fresh grass, and freque...

click photo to enlarge When I was a teenager living in Settle (then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now in North Yorkshire) I reasonably ...

click photo to enlarge "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily liv...

click photo to enlarge When it was suggested that Tony Blair should have a prime ministerial jet for international travel - popularly dubb...

click photo to enlarge In one of my early posts - in March 2006 as it happens - I extolled the advantages of a west-facing coast. I happ...

click photo to enlarge Every time we take a photograph we make decisions. If we assume that we've already decided the nature of the s...

click photo to enlarge In a recent post I mentioned how, in common with most photographic enthusiasts, I make multiple exposures of a sub...

click photo to enlarge "The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August" Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet ...

click photo to enlarge "Clouds That Look Like Things" is the very accurate title of book available from the Cloud Appreciatio...

click photo to enlarge Simple pleasures are always, without exception, the best pleasures. Watching your children's first encounte...

click photo to enlarge As a paid up member of The Cloud Appreciation Society and the proud owner of "The Cloudspotter's Guide...

click photo to enlarge A casual observer might wonder how parts of the UK could be in a state of drought and suffering from such a short...

click photo to enlarge Recently I've been feeling, as a television advertisement of yesteryear used to say, "one degree und...

click photo to enlarge One of the joys of digital photography is the ease and lack of extra expense involved in taking multiple shots of...

click photo to enlarge After a very dry, sunny spring and early summer, with plenty of warm weather - at least in my part of the world -...

click photo to enlarge I sometimes feel sorry for people who are condemned to live their lives in a place where the sky is invariably un...

click photo to enlarge When, many years ago, I first started to take a deeper interest in photography I began to think more about the weathe...

click photo to enlarge I'm sure the curators would disagree, but I think quite a few museums have lost their way when it comes to displa...

click photo to enlarge If you were to invent a "Forces of Nature Scale", somewhat analagous to the Beaufort Scale of wind speed, ...