The picture archive
A few views I keep returning to. Arranged by the day I made them, with the newest first. The place names are my own shorthand.
2026
6 pictures
A gap in the weather
One bright strip between two showers. Enough to make the wet walk worth it.
The shallows, again
The same bend, a little less water, a little more sky in it.
A field left standing
The grass at the field edge had gone the colour of weak tea.
Birches after rain
The bark was brighter than the sky. My sleeves were still wet.
The long way home
A pale path through last year’s grass. I missed the turning on purpose.
Blue before morning
Nothing much happening, which was what I had gone out for.
2025
5 pictures
Where the hedge runs out
The hedge ended without much ceremony. The wind carried on.
Last light at Mere Hollow
The pond borrowed the colour of the sky for a few minutes.
Almost all green
Five different greens, before the cloud put them all back in the same coat.
An unfinished thaw
Winter still in the ditch, spring trying the higher ground.
The quiet bank
Snow on the near bank; a narrow dark line of water beyond it.
2024
4 pictures
A little further uphill
I thought the good light was over. It was just a bit further up.
Reeds at the bend
The water was moving. Everything else seemed to have agreed to wait.
The lower meadow
A patch of white flowers that looked like a little weather of its own.
Before the leaves
Three pale trunks, and the wood still mostly made of air.