PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge Most people's photographs consist of shots of family, friends and holiday locations. And why not? Cameras are ...

click photo to enlarge The derelict field barn in today's main photograph can be seen on the first ot the smaller photographs. ...

click photo to enlarge One of the interesting things about ageing is the perspective that it brings. As a young child I lived in Stackhou...

click photo to enlarge The origins of Stilton cheese are hard to pin down. I remember being told that it got its name from the fact that...

click photo to enlarge A new crematorium is currently being built near Surfleet in Lincolnshire. Its purpose is to supplement the exis...

click photo to enlarge Sometimes, when my wife and I are visiting a church, a particular memorial catches our eye. It may be its modest...

click photo to enlarge There was a time, from the late 1970s to some time in the 1990s when my Olympus OM1n 's lens, usually a 50mm 1...

click photo to enlarge Down a grassy Cambridgeshire lane, surrounded by trees, arable fields to the west and pasture to the south, lies t...

click photo to enlarge In 1626 Nicholas Ferrar was ordained and set about creating an Anglican religious community at the family's ho...

click photo to enlarge After the coldest spring for a few decades the summer of 2013 eventually turned out to be one of the warmest and s...

click photo to enlarge The other evening we were in the Lincolnshire town of Louth. Unusually I wasn't there with photography in mind...

click photo to enlarge The stained glass windows and lamps of the U.S. designer, Louis Comforty Tiffany (1848-1933) are internationally r...

click photo to enlarge The other day I watched a tractor as it began to break up the surface of a field that had given up its wheat crop ...

click photo to enlarge Autumn is upon us with the leaves of many species of tree starting to change colour. Leaf fall has begun too and o...

click photo to enlarge I remember reading, a long time ago, the assertion that colours in nature never clash. I have the feeling that it ...

click photo to enlarge Thomas Thornycroft (1815-1885) and Mary Thornycroft (neé Francis) (1814-1895), were husband and wife sculptors. ...

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 There's a widely held belief that the design of objects improves with each passing year. That certainly seems ...

click photo to enlarge Can there be a garden plant with more contradictory common names than the annual flower, Nigella damascena ? Love-...