A Thinking Man

On a recent weekend break in Liverpool my wife and I stayed in a hotel near the waterfront and spent a lot of time ambling round the re-developed docks, especially relatively early in the morning where we breakfasted in one of the cafés there.  The Liverpool Tate is housed in some of the old warehouses [...]

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On a recent visit to Liverpool my wife and I couldn’t but help notice that there were a lot of new shops and offices being built.  If you walk from the docks to the city centre it is hard not to get the impression that you are walking on a nice new path through a [...]

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It was late on a hot afternoon in September in Rome. We had been bumping into Caravaggio paintings and exploring churches all day. We were exhausted and arted out. I sat in a pew inside a church (I’m afraid I do not remember which one, there were so many, but do tell [...]

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How do you shoot Florence?
I mean, it has to be one of the most photographed cities in the world. When we went in the week before Easter the place was teeming. I dread to think what it would be like once the tourist season really started. And most of us who were [...]

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Apologies, dear reader(s) for my less than prolific output in the past few days (I honestly don’t know how you have coped), but I have been living in ‘interesting times’. I have had several things preoccupying me and stealing the precious time that otherwise would have been devoted to filling this space. However, [...]

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