Author: Jim
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Remnants
Huntsville, Alabama. March 2025.
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Yorkshire Rivers and More
This week I will take a break from the dry stone walls to share (mostly) more detailed views from Yorkshire. The image above is of Cauldron Falls on Walden Beck (“beck” being a northern English term for a stream). The falls were nice, but using my crazywide-angle 9mm lens results in a completely different look…
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Stopper
Yorkshire, England. June 2025.
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A Sunny Day in Yorkshire
My second full day in Yorkshire was sunny with some scattered clouds—an all-around nice day for photography, although the light was a little harsher than I would like for waterfalls. I have quite a few images of the River Ure from the vicinity of Aysgarth Falls, but decided to include this one because the shape…
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Charred
Huntsville, Alabama. May 2025.
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A Damp Day in Yorkshire
In June I had the opportunity to spend a week in Yorkshire Dales National Park, which included joining a Light & Land photography tour led by Charlie Waite. (Next year’s tour is already on the schedule, if this series of posts convinces you to sign up.) When I visited York last November, I had no…
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Across Eighteen Visits
This past spring I spent 8 weeks living in Madison, Alabama. Early in our stay, we discovered the Bradford Creek Greenway, and it became our favored walking spot. My Lightroom catalog has images from eighteen different dates, and I am sure there were a few other times when I either didn’t have my camera or…
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Lush
Madison, Alabama. May 2025.
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Diversion
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain. February 2023.
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An Anamorphic Outing
Decades ago I had copies of The Joy of Photography and More Joy of Photography, both published by the Eastman Kodak company. One of those two books—I suspect it was the latter—had a spread about photographing with an anamorphic lens. I remember a picture of soccer players that looked like models for African folk art…