PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge Many enthusiast photographers, possibly the majority, spend a lot of time searching out extraordinary subjects for...

click photo to enlarge Until the advent of the Poor Law Act of 1832, legislation that set in motion Unions and then workhouses of the kin...

click photo to enlarge Light through petals is a beautiful sight. During the summer months I frequently make use of the low sun of mornin...

click photo to enlarge A small magazine that I edit recently carried an article written by a man who was sent to the workhouse in Boston, ...

click photo to enlarge In medieval Gothic architecture an arch that is convex below and convex above and sweeps up to a sharp, tapered po...

click photo to enlarge I've long felt that the UK's country houses are largely stuffed with expensive tat, objects that serve no p...

click photo to enlarge The purpose of our recent visit to Belton House, a National Trust property near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was to s...

click photo to enlarge I first visited Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, in January on a cold, bright day when the shadows were...

click photo to enlarge As a child I attended a Church of England primary school, the only primary school in the place where I grew up. Co...

click photo to enlarge When I used Olympus Four Thirds cameras I recall people being a bit sniffy about that manufacturer's 35mm f3.5 ...

click photo to enlarge I've had several emails recently from sharp-eyed readers who have noticed that many of my recent photographs h...

click photo to enlarge When I was young the words "pantry" and "larder" were often heard. My parents used both of them...

click photo to enlarge Ivy is a plant I admire, one whose ecological value is apparent to me, a species without which the world would pro...

click photo to enlarge We were heading for the south of Northamptonshire to do a little walking and the signs were not good. In fact, the...

click photo to enlarge In 1988 the Halifax Building Society concluded from a study of its computer database of 15 million investors that ...

click photo to enlarge It's a truism that it's possible to take a good photograph of a bad subject. In fact, as I've said els...

click photo to enlarge It's common to find jobs and professions using technical and abstruse language to exclude the lay person and...

click photo to enlarge The British character is traditionally supposed to be low key, reserved, eschewing ostentation and brashness. Ther...

click photo to enlarge It would be hard to find a greater architectural and photographic contrast than is exhibited in the last post and t...

click photo to enlarge My earliest "serious" photography at the start of the 1970s involved a Russian Zenit E 35mm camera with ...