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Is it the ugliest telegraph pole ever or the most beautiful?

Echoing the landscape! Unfortunately, I can not attribute the artist as there was no label.

It’s not the time of year for birth and new life to begin unless, you are seal.

Sleaford seems to have a better class of graffiti.

Fantasy Island, Ingoldmells. Yes, another reference to brexit! 

When it was built in the 1960’s the Belmont TV transmitter was the tallest structure of it’s kind (cylindrical tube) in the world. You would think that it would spoil the landscape but I kind of like it. If it was erected in the Lake District I would probably think different.

Big Issue seller, Lincoln

Most people’s NY resolutions are about themselves (keep fit, stop smoking etc.), which is a bit of a selfish way to start the year, particularly after all the self-indulgence of the holiday season. I thought I would make this years resolution something that benefits those less fortunate.

New Year resolution 2017 – be generous!

The Day of the Dead in Lincoln, what goes around, comes around. It’s strange when customs that originate in Europe arguably as a pagan or Christian celebrations, return from the Americas almost unrecognisable. I like the way the Co-op organise travel not only to foreign parts but also from this life to the next.

A particular kind of fiction

I’ve just completed a tour of Phil Cosker’s “Landscapes – A particular kind of fiction”. This work consists of six images, 10×8 feet, exhibited in six church yards, September 18th – October 24th 2016. (further details www.philcosker.com)

Artisit’s statement:

“I made these photographs using glass plates exposed in a Thornton Pickard ‘Imperial’ half-plate bellows camera with a 47/8 120mm lens. The images were made between 1982 & 1984. I found the camera in a second-hand shop; there were dark slides but no film of any sort. By chance he discovered some unexposed boxes of Ilford Tri-colour plates in a cupboard in Hull School of Art & Design. After much experimentation I found I could use each plate separately and was able to control exposures to create these images.”

“These very large images (magnificently printed by Rob Hodgson at Double Red) try to capture the volume and sense of space in the locations in which they were made. In some ways, though very different in content, they make reference to the beauty and mystery in Atget’s work (the pioneering French photographer 1857-1927). The acuity of the lens and the capture of the passage of time in a still frame offer a particular way of seeing. But of course what we see in these large photographs is not what is, or was there, but a fiction, an imagination of passing time and place. Beyond that – to me they are beautiful – I hope you agree.”