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Fame at last!
On May 29th I am in Hereford, photographing the gardens at the cathedral. But this isn't a normal day, as I am there by invitation from Country Life. The magazine is to be the subject of a three-part TV programme about the way it works and how I go about my garden photography is one component. They are supposed...
Tree book talks
Following on from our successful two-woman act at the Keswick Literary Festival in March, Paula Day and I have two more joint talks in the near future. Thursday May 1st, 2014 at the Wordsworth Bookshop in St Andrews churchyard, Penrith (www.wordsworthbookshop.co.uk). Paula and Val will talk at 7 pm. Slide show. Poetry reading. Book signing. Saturday July 26th, 2014 in...
(The River Greta)
Exhibition - Theatre by the Lake, Keswick
Starting on Monday 2nd December and running for two months, this exhibition is entitled Winter in the Lake District. There are over 30 framed prints on the walls of the Circle Bar on the theatre's first floor. The colour prints are of course of winter landscapes. They vary in size between A4 and A3 and there are several in panoramic...
East Anglian gardens
My main summer trip for garden photography was to Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. As always it was a delight to visit some of the wonderful gardens and their owners. One highlight was rowing myself around a moat to get the shots of a lovely manor house. With the help of tripod ladders I was often able to overcome to...
Tree - a new book
Paula Day imagines trees talking about their lives in this new collection of poems accompanied by my photographs. Published by Daylight, July 2013 (copies may be purchased from http://www.treebydaylight.co.uk).