Hull and Hereabouts

' ...the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ' This shop...  You do remember shops, don't you? You...

It seems that 1970s browned glass windows (some call it 'gold' but some is fools) that give photographers such nice reflections a...

In this bleak midwinter rain has fallen, rain on rain ... and so Snuff Mill Lane fields are nicely awash and home to a few wary gulls ...

... a lot like mid-November . I don't know which is the more disappointing, misleading and tawdry. The tinselly fake-snow eight wee...

It is said that you cannot step into the same river twice but that doesn't stop you trying to photograph it. So, pace Heraclitus, he...

The Fisher Fleet just after sunset with a bit of a tide to reflect the lights and ghostly almost invisible ducks quacking to themselves ...

The river Hull in these parts is basically an extension of the North Sea and as such is subject to the same tidal ups and downs. Which m...

What you've never had, I suppose, you'll never miss. So future new visitors to Lowgate might wonder at older folks shaking their...

If anyone bangs on about intelligent design being the way of the world just ask how the apex of the alleged Deity's plans, the mos...

...in the City of Culture. Barmston drain again with the onset of Autumn Margot took the second one, and quite possibly the first; ...

If you look at old maps of Hessle Road you'll find the area between it and the docks along the Humber crammed with housing, every in...

OK so I waited 'til a blue car went past is that such a sin? Weekend reflections are here .

I mentioned that last Saturday that along with the Hull Folk Festival Hull was also host to the BBC Proms held at the little stage ...

It's a strange compulsion I know, a kind of reflection fetish ... Someone puts up a set of windows and you just have to see what ref...

If these pics of the tidal barrier seem a bit grainy that's because some idiot (that would be me) left the camera at a ridiculous IS...

The continuing works to titivate this town are now reaching out to Queen's Gardens. The result is that the two duck ponds are fenced...

I'd never seen old Humber so flat calm and peaceful. No clouds other than those made by the gentle folk of Lincolnshire (*waves hell...

Ah well that's another turn around the solar system completed. I hear so many saying this year has been a bad one, worst year ever a...

Things to do on trains: part 1 Take silly pictures of yourself and get gawped at by other passengers. This was taken somewhere between...

The weekend in black and white is here . Weekend reflections are here .