Penwortham Gala, Preston

Screaming kids, funfair rides, smell of greasy burgers. Inadvertently released overpriced helium balloons head skywards - cue more screaming.

Ruffs Dog Show - Preston

The world of competitive dog ownership comes to Ashton Park in Preston.
Pooches and partners of all varieties and sizes queue in the sporadic drizzle in front of judges - four eyes yearning for rosettes ( at least I like to think the dogs know whats going on ).
Waggiest tail and shiniest nose clinched, crowds disperse to the tombola raffle and inevitable dog training stalls.

Made in Britain

Not necessarily a statement on the country as a whole, more just elements available to point a lens at.

New images in PAD Gallery Preston

It was about time I changed over old images and refreshed with new at the PAD in Preston. A couple sold from the last submission and hopefully more of these will be taken.

Now we know that swine flu isnt really going to obliterate the population or those kind bankers aren't going to take back all our homes, there is really no excuse not to pick one up and adorn that empty wall space between the pictures of a woman scratching her arse at tennis or dogs playing pool.....

A lot of the photos I've been taking are getting more thematic or series led - I seem to be spending a lot of time at the beach or barren moor - and also playing with off camera flash is a new nightly ritual so picking single images can sometimes be a little difficult.

Week off the treadmill

3 days in the lakes, 1 day at the beach, and 1 at the Museum of Science and Industry.....
It can't be school half term can it?

In this 'economic downturn' or whatever the name is for it this week, I can do what I enjoy best and pull on my boots and go for a walk.

More MPP

A chance to escape to Cumbria, a forest being felled illuminated by the afternoon spring sun, and a box of HP5 5x4 in the bag.
Bliss.

After-life 2 - Severn Bridge

And then came Severn Bridge.
Not chronologically - first was Danes Dyke and then Immingham - but I'll write more about the series later.I'll just post as I go through.
Severn Bridge is famous enough as a feat of engineering, and in the UK at least it's famous as well as a suicide spot similar in notoriety to Beachy Head.
Richey Edwards' car was left nearby in the motorway services along with the many number of others who choose it as their place to go. The bridge imposes itself across the water and over the skyline and although I didn't go here for photos of just a bridge, it's hard not to gawp and click.
More info if wanted.