NEWS FROM NOWHERE

Came across this beached boat today on the estuary. Walking around I noticed the mast angle matched the building behind and after a few pics I noticed the perfect reflection of the old post in the foreground. Quite pleased with the peaceful aspect in this.. #beachs #beachlife #estuary #headland (at Uphill, North Somerset, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoiOw7WLlLo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The kind of day today that puts a little skip in your step.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXsXBNLfLv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It was cold, misty and silent down the beach this morning, but as soon as the sun hit the beach the fog rolled away dramatically. Then the song Grantchester Meadows by Pink Floyd came into my head:- "Icy wind of night be gone this is not your domain" In the sky a bird was heard to cry Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds Belie the deathly silence that lay all around. #beach #beachlife #severnestuary #mist #fog #westonsupermare #pinkfloyd # (at Uphill, North Somerset, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXrlp1LGI_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Hello there Sun. Good to see you again.. #beachs #uphill #blackandwhitephotography #westonsupermare #landscapephotography #landscape #beachlife https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnoc_gPjT0q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A completely accidental shot, but I think there's something quite Zen like and calming about it 😊 https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDOnC7qdgx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Been working on one of my favourite images I've taken. Shot through ancient glass of the Hook Lighthouse at the Southernmost tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. The Hook Light is the second oldest working lighthouse in the world at 898 years old this year. The very window even appears on the Coat of Arms of County Wexford. (at The Hook Lighthouse, Wexford.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKs6dq1nPOM/?igshid=198l0q65cgsjj

I think sometimes we pray for miracles, like an end to the pandemic, and forget the everyday miracle that is our very existence on this mass of spinning, cooling, molten rock, zooming through space at 30 kilometres every second, at just the right distance from a giant nuclear explosion, to neither fry or freeze.. (at Uphill Hill Nature Reserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKsxYz4n2BN/?igshid=1xww28v8szabi

Summertime in England.. Happy Solstice all 🤗🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv-tqyhsui/?igshid=15fc30m0r1imi

There's just something so English about a gently curving hill with cows silhouetted on top.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv-im0BkbH/?igshid=1mdjpiijvq9g6

It's great that in the middle of nowhere someone diligently created this - just because.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv-WFOhXxx/?igshid=5oq94pi5uuw4

We didn't take a ball with us 🤔 You can't keep a good dog down 😏 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv-JdZBYpm/?igshid=6rdezx980w9

Fast mud is worse.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBv9-wFB1Kn/?igshid=13xugakmh9ssq

I was photographing the sunset on the stones last year when I turned to the West to see this... (at Stonehenge) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBsWPn1h786/?igshid=3ki41ijkrjtt

Looking at the state of the world at the moment it's hard, very hard, to make sense of where we're at. But, I love you. It may seem strange, because many of you hardly know me, and some of you don't know me at all. But all the same I love you. If people can choose to hate people because of their race, their gender, their ability, their sexuality, their religion, their culture - or for no reason at all. Then I can consciously choose to LOVE YOU for all those reasons - or for no reason at all. I don't care if that's too simplistic or too naive for you. I'm too tired, too old, too drained to argue with you. I'm tired of the hatred, sick of the violence, tired of the greed. I've lived with it for 61 years and it hasn't changed a single damn thing. Just brought us to the brink of destruction. I know this though. I know the kind of world I want to live in, and the kind of world I want my children to live in and the kind of world I want to leave behind. And occasionally in the actions and deeds of my friends, my good friends, and in the kindness of strangers, I can glimpse that world and its beautiful.. So, for all these reasons and many more, I choose to love you. (And if at this point you've reached for your sick bucket - I just, don't, care). 'it's better to light a single candle than curse the darkness' Peace xxx https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_MxnYhIAU/?igshid=1igxwevdb89li