Living with a landscape photographer presents a special set of problems. The two times of day in which they are most interested are sunrise and sunset. The problem with photographing sunrise is, of course, that one’s landscape photographer, and therefore…

I’m frequently told that flower photography does not require strong sun but benefits from the diffused lighting and lack of shadows resulting what real old Kodak 35mm or 120 roll film boxes used to call cloudy bright. Well, today was…

July 1st and our first full day installed at Sandringham. Yesterday’s spell of summer sun is  now over and the forecast for the rest of the week is mainly for cloud cover, with some rain, though there is a suggestion…

The last day of June and time to leave the Caravan Club site at Ludham Bridge in East Norfolk to head over to Sandringham estate in West Norfolk for the opposition’s (Camping and Caravanning Club) site. There was no rush;…

I can’t help but notice that our weather forecasts involving the arrival of rain seem to be more accurate than those involving any suggestion of sun. Perhaps in an effort to boost morale, our forecasters have been speaking of sunny…

A third reasonable day (i.e. dry until later this afternoon) forecast. What have we done to deserve this? Francine had a hankering to see the sea so we headed for an area of dunes on the north-east Norfolk coast between…

With the prospect of another reasonable day in our currently crappy weather pattern, we were expecting to be able to continue our Norfolk Hawker hunt with a visit to its well publicized breeding ground at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s site…