A few weeks back I met the rather excellent Mario Cacciottolo at the Manchester Social Media Cafe. He runs this rather neat photography project called Someone Once Told Me for which he gets people to write something that (you guessed it) someone once told them on a big flip chart and then be photographed. read more...

My friend and mentor Alan Scott died on Thursday 16th October 2008. This came on compounded sadness as his long time partner Gail Braybon had also departed this earthly life after a long battle with cancer back in August. read more...

While on the way home from work today I caught this out of the corner of my eye, down at my feet. I can just hear the wails of some small child, "Where is Cattyhead. read more...

Several months ago we had one of those moments that anyone with a digital camera dreads; the loss of a large proportion of our library due to mysterious forces of darkness. Well actually it was my fault really as I was trying to clean up the library into nice tidy archivable chunks and make iPhoto actually able to cope with the volume of images without being totally glacial. read more...

France was bursting with flora. We went to Le Jardin des Plantes in Montpellier, France's oldest botanical garden and very nice it was too. read more...

A nice selection of some of our best photographs from Moresdalestock 2005 are now available in the gallery. Click for more. read more...

We went to the Jumbles Reservoir up the other side of Bromley Cross. In fact we went twice on consecutive evenings, and took lots of photos. read more...

I took some nice pictures of flowers on the way to the postbox the other day. . read more...

Here are some pictures from our recent adventures - including the Bonkermasher (aka Woodbank Park in Stockport), Lucy's party in London and some bits of old tankage and nature just round the corner from home. read more...

Spring is here. We have spiders again. read more...

Authur's seat in Edinburgh at dawn . read more...

On the way to Scotland today I took some nice blurry pictures of the sunset out of the train window. . read more...

Specially for the photo-competition-fans, what do you all think this is. Post your answers in the comments. read more...

Have I unwittingly taken a picture of a dead child. We have scoured the Bolton Evening News and think something like that would have been reported so hopefully no. read more...

Speaking of the wrong side of the tracks - it's not half as nasty as people say. The hill between the station and Park Hill is awash with great big buttercups, thistles and miscellaneous wild flowers. read more...