PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph shows a detail of the priest's door on the exterior of the chancel of the church of St A...

click photo to enlarge Living in the countryside I am surrounded by natural, largely muted colour - the greens and browns of grass and le...

click photo to enlarge It is a children's story that I blame for my fascination with bridges; specifically, "The Three Billy Goat...

click photo to enlarge There are children today who, if you tell them that milk comes from cows, will look at you incredulously, thinking ...

click photo to enlarge The world wide web, it seems to me, has increased the amount of confrontation and stridency in photography. Now, do...

click photo to enlarge Photographic compositions can be constructed in many ways, some orthodox and some not so usual. Down the years I ha...

click photo to enlarge In the main the builders of Britain's medieval parish churches used local stone. Sometimes this was very well ...

click photo to enlarge I came upon these dust sheets in one of the unrestored rooms at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. The wallpaper was stained...

click photo to enlarge Obsessive tidiness can be as much an eyesore as can casual mess. I was pondering this a few days ago when I came a...

click photo to enlarge Scarecrows are a common sight in Lincolnshire, particularly on the Fens where vegetables are grown. Predation by w...

click photo to enlarge In 2010 I posted a piece called "Enthusiast photographers and camera angst" wherein I said that most DS...

click photo to enlarge When it came to depicting the devil and his minions Christianity seems to have drawn on two sources of inspiratio...

click photo to enlarge There are two basic approaches to starting a business - offer something that hasn't been offered before, or do...

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...