Hadrian's Wall Taxis

The blog has been going for more than a year now and I find increasingly that I’m repeating myself. It’s the nature of the area of Hadrian’s Wall that I love to photograph that certain areas will come up again and again.I’m not going to stop posting up… . . . → Read More: Time for a change

TT picked the venue for our Wednesday outing.He chose Allen Banks one of the National Trust woodlands very near to Hadrian’s Wall, 5½ miles east of Haltwhistle, 3 miles west of Haydon Bridge. It’s a walk through a gorge with towering cliff faces … . . . → Read More: Allen Banks – Just off the Wall but oh dear me!

Well my sunrise, sunset season is well and truly under way.Getting up at 4.40am at the moment and making a decision whether or not to go out, it’s actually a hard call to make as cloud comes and goes quickly so I can get up and get out and before … . . . → Read More: Up in the mornings and out at night.

Haven’t had many long walks lately, it seems like I’ve dashed out when conditions look good, snapped a few photographs and dashed home again.Sounds like I’m full of busy doesn’t it? But really I’m not, I just don’t know where the time goes, one of thos… . . . → Read More: Here and there.

As the year progresses the sun moves back around Hadrian’s Wall.A quick check of the Metcheck site tells me that I have promising conditions for a sunrise shot.For a change when the alarm goes off and I look outside I discover the forecast was right, s… . . . → Read More: The joys of early morning

Okay that title is maybe a teensy bit misleading. It rained yesterday but at six oclock the skies cleared and for a couple of hours before sunset the sun did shine.I decided to go up to Birdoswald, the best sections of Hadrian’s Wall with views face ea… . . . → Read More: Hadrian’s Wall when the sun shines

I usually head off by myself, photography is a solitary hobby, too much standing around doing nothing at all, for most people.Good Friday turned out to be good, weather wise, TT was off on one of his bike rides, so I decided to head off south of H… . . . → Read More: How not to

I was sitting in the conservatory at home watching the clouds skud across the sky thinking how beautiful they looked.I’ve just bought a book on cloud spotting fromThe Cloud Appreciation Society and was trying to identify the type.Suddenly it came … . . . → Read More: Hadrian’s Wall – April Fool

It’s been a year since I first started blogging my way along Hadrian’s Wall, that’s a lot of words and photographs shared.Looking back I see that last year was a much better year, weather wise for photographs. I can’t remember the last sunrise I was up… . . . → Read More: Doesn’t time fly

I’m not up to scratch at the minute, my brain is all over the place so I thought I’d load some photographs taken in the last week or so and just do you a description of each. Sunset over Crag Lough, the sun has started to move again and the camera was … . . . → Read More: March on Hadrian’s Wall in photographs