What a pleasure to see a truly commercial film which dares to makes its deepest points with allegory. I am thinking of Seraphim Falls (2006). It’s currently viewable on BBC iPLayer.
It’s a story of how two tough mens’ paths tragically cross in the American Civil War resulting in the quest for revenge by one of them. It’s
Until this morning, the last time I saw a haymaker using a scythe and making ricks was in the Fifties when I was a child in East Kent.
But there the reaper was today as the sun rose, on the Green in the Oxford parish where I live.
‘It’s easier to cut when it’s still wet with dew,’ he told
I take photographs continually and they become a visual reference for things done, seen and thought. It takes a while for some thoughts to emerge, others to recede and the images to find their place.
Sometimes one or other lingers on the edge of my mind like a disturbance caught in peripheral vision whose nature and
The new Insight Guide Travel Photography How to take striking images (ed. Tony Halliday) is on object lesson to other publishers and their editors in how to produce a great, readable, perusable instructional book.
For some bizarre reason such books are often the opposite of what you’d expect for a visual and exciting subject with very
I’m not the only one whose diurnal rhythms are seriously messed up for a few days twice a year by the switch to British Summer Time (last weekend) and back again (due this year early morning Sunday 31st October). I know that because of what friends say and by the incredible number of responses to the MP Tim Yeo’s timely… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
A few weeks ago I inadvertently broke the speed limit (37mph in a 30mph area) on the outskirts of Salisbury. Shortly afterwards the Wiltshire Police gave me the option of a statutory fine of £60.00 and three points on my licence or paying a £60.00 fee to attend a Speed Awareness Course with no points and no further questions asked… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
I WATCHED WITHOUT pleasure the excuse of an apology given yesterday to the media by Cardinal Sean Brady, the primate of All Ireland, for his role in suppressing the truth about abuse of children in their care by catholic priests. This followed an apologetic sermon in Armagh Cathedral which was the occasion for admitting that he was party to making two children take a vow of… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
WORLD CLASS MUSEUMS DON’T open up on one’s doorstep everyday, but it’s just happened to me. ‘Just’ meaning towards the end of last year. But then, given that the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest public museum in the world (dating back to 1678) its astonishing refurbishment over several years and re-opening last November does feel like yesterday. It’s taken the… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
A REMINDER THAT I will one day die came yesterday in a spooky way. My readers may remember that in a previous post I promised to find out whose memorial in the nave of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, has the striking skull which stares balefully down at the congregation, sometimes including me. I popped into the cathedral yesterday…CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
A fall of snow is a sudden hushed delight so overwhelming in its transformation of the world about us that we rush to take pictures of it, as I did in mid-January. But the sense of wonder lasts only as long as the snow is virginal, which isn’t long. Soon it becomes a freezing, inconvenient…CLICK FOR FULL BLOG
