INDEX by year



2024


Ingleborough Caves

Ingleton Waterfalls

Ribblehead Viaduct  - a magnificent Victorian achievement

Kirby Lonsdale

Ingleton - the start of our Yorkshire holiday

Flowers in the landscape - with Gill Moon

Helmingham Hall Gardens - Birthday visit

St Edmunds Church, Southwold

Southwold and Dunwich

Sizewell - Beauty and the Beast

The three Marys -  local churches

Snape Church of St John the Baptist

The Harvest Mural

Busking Showcase - Ipswich

Private Aaron McClure

Three Churches - Shottisham, Alderton & Bawdsey

Norton - All Saints

Flatford - floods and frost


2023


Mistley - short walk with Gill Moon

Storm Babet in our area of Suffolk

The New Forest for two days

Lyndhurst and Alice in Wonderland

Morwellham Quay - The Victorian mining village

Buckland Abbey - The home of Sir Frances Drake

Plymouth - a day by the Ho

Dartmoor and around

Colchester Castle Park Gardens

The amazing paintings in St Michael & All Angels Church Copford

A visit to St Stephens Chapel or Chapel Barn, Bures

Languard Point - To see the world`s largest container ship

Felixstowe - a day out 

Boxford - memories

Groton - The Winthrop legacy

Bramford - and the sad story of baby Innocent

Bawdsey - Long exposure and sunset

Exmoor - Watchet and Clifton Suspension bridge

Exmoor - Valley of the Rocks

Exmoor - Cleeve Abbey & Crowcombe Church

Exmoor - Minehead

Exmoor - Tarr Steps and Dunster

Exmoor - Porlock Weir

Exmoor - Nether Stowey & The Great Wood

John Clench of Holbrook

Church flower decorations on Coronation week

Coronation Celebrations - Layham & around

To the woods to see the Bluebells - and more.

Agriculture - April Gill Moon Challenge

Pin Mill 50mm Challenge - with Gill Moon

Snowdrops at Hedingham Castle

Detail - Southwold with Gill Moon 

December and January Frost


2022


Woolverstone  Hall and St Michael`s Church

The Abbey - Celebrating 1000 years in sculpture

Castle Acre and Massingham

Glamping in King Nutkins, Happy Valley, Grimston

Sandringham - the Royal residence

Broadway Folly and the quiet village of Stanton

Chipping Camden

Sudely Castle & Gardens

Upper and Lower Slaughter, then on to Wych Rissington

Castle Combe

Lacock Abbey and Village

Stow on the Wold - our holiday destination

The Wenhaston medieval Doom

Landguard Scavenger Hunt with Gill Moon

Pembrokeshire with Hayley and Izobelle

Jubilee Celebrations

Some old buildings in Ipswich

Bury St Edmunds - the story.

The Ipswich Charter Hangings in St Peter's Church

Yoxford Man

St Matthew`s and Our Lady of Grace

Little Finborough and Needham Market _ Parish Churches

Woman who helped change the world - Princess Sophia Duleep Singh


2021


While we are in Folkestone ...

Elham in the depths of Kent

MOMENTS - Modern art in Bury St Edmunds

What has Bawdsey to offer?

Thomas Seckford and Woodbridge 

Tempers flare at the graveside!

Badley - a church frozen in time

Three days of summer!

Dingle nature reserve and Moelfre

Parys Mountain Copper Mines and onto Plas Cemlyn nature reserve

Beaumaris Castle and Penmon Point

Our stay on Anglesey - South Stack on day one.

Manor Houses of Hadleigh

Captain Tom Moore

Hadleigh, George Street - Listed buildings

Snow and Cold from the East!

The Lost Pubs of Hadleigh

Hadleigh`s Benton Street - Listed Houses - (3)

Hadleigh Guildhall and St Mary Church with Deanery Tower


2020


Listed houses of Hadleigh - Bridge street & Corks Lane - (2)

Listed houses of Hadleigh - High Street - (1)

Staverton Thicks - glorious oaks and holly

Autumn comes to Rendlesham

Shapes in trees - Flatford

Swilland and Crowfield - two unusual Church buildings

A morning walk in Snape

Another walk in Walberswick

Redundant church of St Mary, Washbrook

Signs of Autumn`s approach

Coastal erosion at Walton on the Naze

Wasp Spiders in Landseer Park, Ipswich

Views of the Dunwich heather

A short walk from Ramsholt on the Deben

A morning in Walberswick with Gill Moon

V-J Day or Victory in Japan

Scarecrow time in Bildeston

Shingle Street with Gill Moon

Bridges and butterflies in Pipers Vale, Ipswich

Swans and their family - (2)

Swans and their family - (1)

Signs Of The Times - Coronavirus

One form of exercise a day …

Seen on my walk - Bluebells and more.

Spring Flowers in Lock-Down time -  (2)

Spring Flowers in Lock-Down time -  (1)

Every Church has a story - St Margaret`s, Ipswich

Felixstowe Ferry Scavenger Hunt

The Round Church of Little Maplestead

More images of Ipswich Waterfront

The Tudor connection - St Mary`s in Bury St Edmunds

The shrinking village of Kettlebaston

A bright cold morning in Walton


2019


and finally for 2019 ....

And then it rained - and rained...

The `Ark` arrives in Ipswich

Sherwood with Hayley and Izobelle

Photo Walk with Gill Moon at Upper Hollesley Common

King Charles the Martyr - Shelland Church

Autumn stroll in Marks Hall gardens and Arboretum

The Willis Towers Watson building in Ipswich

Rye - the ancient Cinque port

The town of Battle, East Sussex

Hastings Old Town

Hastings & St Leonards - a seafront view

The Wasp Spider at Minsmere

Sculpture at Marks Hall

Theberton and the tranquility of Dunwich

Rosey filming for Countryfile at Woburn Abbey

Woburn Abbey - exploring the gardens

The magnificent Helmingham Hall and Gardens

Snape and across the fields to Iken

Butterflies at Bradfield Woods

Lindisfarne or Holy Island

Bamburgh and Dunstanburgh Castles

The Magic of the Inner Farne Island

Arrival in Beadnell, Northumberland

Swanning about

Burnham Norton church and Titchwell Nature Reserve

Rhododendrons at Sheringham Park

Weird and Wonderful Wood - Haughley Park

A day at RSPB Minsmere

A look at picturesque Dedham

St Mary-at-Elms, Ipswich

Corwen and onto Rug Chapel

Llangollen: The Two Ladies

The Chain Bridge and Valle Crucis Abbey

Chirk Castle and a walk by the Canal

Birds at Lynford  Arboretum

Thorpeness & Peter Pan

Aldeburgh and The Scallop

More ghosts - Walberswick

The ghosts of Covehithe

The retable at Thornham Parva

The great ceiling of St Mary - Huntingfield

Bramfield church with its detached tower

Waxwings in Ipswich

Hoar frost in Layham

One frosty morning - Flatford

Kiss and Tell - Christchurch Mansion


2018


The City of Norwich

Lest We Forget - in Layham

Lest we forget - Hadleigh and others

Lostwithiel, Fowey then onto Golitha Falls

The Eden Project 

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Padstow and  Fish & chips!

The start of our week in Cornwall

Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum

Autumn colours at Anglesey Abbey

Red deer rut 4x4 safaris at RSPB Minsmere

Burnham Deepdale and onto Titchwell Marsh 

Sheringham Park and  Wells Next The Sea

Heritage Day at Valley Farm in Flatford

Minsmere Nature Reserve

Wicken Fen - some history

Bitterns at Lakenheath Fen Nature Reserve

Across the meadows to Shelly

Lakenheath Fen Nature Reserve

Evening on Bridlington harbour

Scampston Hall walled garden and estate

Bempton and Flamborough Head

West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village

The cathedral city of Canterbury

Sandwich and Pegwell Bay

Dover Castle

A visit to Howletts Wild Animal Park

We begin our Kent holiday

Fox Fritillary Meadow

A walk around Minsmere

Winter brings floods to Layham & Hadleigh

Hares of Havergate Island


2017


The first snow of 2017

The Shelley, Suffolk / USA link

Wolsey's Angels in Ipswich

Rowland Taylor - Hadleigh's Martyr

Exploring the Forest of Dean

Around Symonds Yat

A wander in Monmouth

Raglan castle

Tintern Abbey - The amazing ruins.

We arrive in Penallt, Monmouth

Wingfield

Helmingham Hall Estate

Great medieval churches - Woolpit

Pirate trail on Dunwich Heathlands

Butterflies - Fermyn Woods Country Park

A Visit to Wicken Fen

On the island of Skomer

Stackpole Estate clifftop walk

Little Haven & Broad Haven

Swallowtails at Strumpshaw Fen

Mullon & Duddon Sands

Ulpha Slate mines

Tarn Howe and Langdale

Hardknott Pass & Eskdale

Coniston Waters

We are off to the Lake District

Cars at Kersey Mill

Polstead church of St Mary

A frosty morning at Flatford


2016


The seals at Horsey

Evolution of our garden

Sparrowhawk with kill

Sandymouth and Welcombe Mouth

The Edge of Bodmin

Launceston and The Hurlers

Tintagel and Boscastle

Bude

Crackington Haven

Westward Ho! and Clovelly

Still Life experiments

On the old railway track

Do horses play?

Pigs Gone Wild

Fun with the grandchildren

Lavender fields and Kirkham Priory

The deserted village of Wharram Percy

York and Pickering

Bempton Cliffs and Flamborough Head

Scarborough

Family holiday in Yorkshire

Monster Truck in Chantry Park

Farnborough Airshow

Young kestrels and Ships at Landguard Point

Can we photograph a kingfisher?

Barn Owl hunting

Stag beetle

The RSPB: Strumpshaw Fen

My 70th Birthday

A `Church Micro` cache at Aldham church

Redgrave, South Lopham & Banham

The hidden history of Little Wenham

A visit to Flatford

Flags of Convenience

Nayland and Stoke by Nayland

Ipswich`s Holywells Park

A morning in Ipswich

Colchester Priory and Firstsite Gallery


2015


Christmas tree festival Stowmarket

Bird images - Lackford Lake

Autumn was here in 2015

Nottingham and Sherwood Forest

Anglesey Abbey

Clouds Hill and TE Lawrence

The Giant Man and Sherborne

Around Winterborne Stickland

Lulworth Estate and Durdle Door

Studland, Poole in Dorset

Corfe Castle

We are off to Dorset

A visit to Framlingham

Wild flowers June 2015

Winnie the Pooh and Glamping

Family Fun at Rendlesham Forest

Family Fun with the Birthday girl 

Stackpole Estate - our first visit

A trip to Skomer

A Geocaching day in Pembrokeshire 

The Marloes Peninsula

Solva and St Davids` Head

Our arrival in Broad Haven

Hunstanton and Snettisham in Norfolk


2014


Lots of water in Layham

Newstead Abbey fungi & gardens

Sherwood and lots of fungi

Butterflies and Moths of 2014

Our last two days on Mull

Fionnphort, Fiddon & Salen

Tobermory and onto Duart Castle

Loch Spelve and otters

Calgary

To the Isle of Ulva

Our arrival in Mull

The wedding of Naomi and Daniel

New life in early summer

Womens Round Britain Cycle Race comes to Layham

Arger Fen bluebells and more

Two weeks in the life of Izobelle

Bittern at Minsmere

What can be seen at Walton on the Naze?

A winter day in January


2013


Dalby Forest and the Bride Stones

Malham Cove and Janet's Foss

Gillamor, and onto Lastingham

Return to the Yorkshire Moors

Let's do some cooking Nana

Dorset for a week

The week I took my first steps

Wells and Cheddar

Bath in Somerset

Woolpit Steam day

Morgan cars passing through Hadleigh

Fun with a hat

What you can do with bubbles!

Norfolk  garden with Danny

Seals at Horsey


2012


Izobelle`s First Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas Past

Grandchildren - Family fun.

A quick look in Ripon Cathedral

Malham Cove and  Janet's Foss

Fountains Abbey on Studley Royal Park

Helmsley, Roseberry and  Mount Grace Priory

High Oak in Yorkshire  and onto Jervaulx Abbey

Caernarfon Castle - on our way to Yorkshire

The Isle of Anglesey - With Graham & Jane

More images of our granddaughter Izobelle

Ickworth House, Bury St Edmunds

The Olympic flame arrives in Ipswich

Volkswagens in Lavenham

National Grid comes to Layham

Floods in Layham

Izobelle - our new granddaughter

A week in Vaynor Merthyr, The Brecons

Smash and Grab - in Hadleigh

Let's try some Still Life

Emily and Adm at play with Bailey

Winter bites but spring resists


2011


Santa with no reindeer?

This was a Misty Autumn

Melford with Sudbury Camera Club

A day in Cambridge

More Cornish coast and colours

Tin Mines in and around Botallack

From Marazion to Mousehole

Ipswich Waterfront Festival

Ipswich Artathon (2)

Ipswich Artathon

Beauty in Nature - 21 days in July

Fire! Fire!

The seaside town of Cromer in Norfolk

Bugs galore - nature's little wonders

Red, yellow, white and blue. Colours of Spring

Nature - seen on my morning stroll.

The journey of the Marquis Cornwallis

More signs of Spring 

Emily enjoys the park

Ipswich - Graffiti and other art

After the snow - high water 

Crocus and Snowdrops - Spring is here!

What we saw in Walton

The Essex & Suffolk Hunt


2010


2010 Beauty in the Natural World 

Winter comes with a vengeance!

It must be Autumn in 2010

Tetbury - a very quick visit

The Bridestones, Rievaulx and Hutton-le-Hole

Staithes - quaint and quiet

Whitby and the famous ruined Abbey

Robin Hood's Bay - Journey and arrival

Emma ties the knot

Hot Car Show Ipswich

Late Summer or early Autumn?

Brighton and The White Cliffs

Norfolk Broads - Windmills and water

Emily - Our granddaughter arrives!

St Non and Caerfai Bay

Fishguard and the beautiful hamlet of Cwm-yr-Eglwys

Exploring St Annes Head

Solva and coastal views on a walk nearby

Pembrokeshire - St Davids` and on to Little Haven

A view of Chester - Part 2 of 2

A view of Chester - Part 1 of 2

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

The Tithe War

Framlingham and Orford castles

Cold and Frosty start to 2010


2009


A visit to the New Forest

A wander among Suffolk mills, skies and harvest.

Abbey Gardens at Bury St Edmunds

The riverside town of Woodbridge

A visit to Carlton Marshes Nature Reserve

Images of Ipswich waterfront

Lindisfarne or Holy Island

Bamburgh Castle

Berwick-Upon-Tweed

Bird life on the Farne Islands

Newcastle

Along parts of Hadrian's Wall

To Northumberland we go!

Lavenham, Monks Eleigh and Flatford. A local tour.

Cape Cornwall, St Ives and The Lizard

Porthleven and the Minack Theatre


2008


Norwich - County town of Norfolk

Family holiday in Welcombe Mouth, Devon

Ingleton, Jervaulx Abbey and Ribblehead Viaduct

Richmond, Mukka Meadows and The Buttertubs

The City of York - Day two

The City of York - Day one


2007


Australia 2007 - our final few days

Richmond and into the Blue Mountains

ILuka, Uralla and on to Tamworth

Brooms Head, Yamba and Maclean

Dorrigo NP and Sawtell

Nambucca Heads and Gordon Park Rainforest

Hawkes Head and Harington

Australia 2007 - The start


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