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Things are finally afoot and a whole host of new Archive images are set to hit the website. These are archive shots from around the Height and Manchester and also archive family shots of the Scollon side of the family. … Continued

  Recently John, Sue and mothers Joan and Jean were to be found at Boulge Church, revisiting the FitzGerald connection. There’s more about that in the Family section of the website, but here is John’s HDR image of the current … Continued

  Thanks to my Aunty Pat’s family albums I have now added 80 new images to the Family Archive section of my Gallery. Pat and I became good friends over the past few years, and she will be sadly missed, … Continued

  For many, many years Phil has done all our print framing, and also all the print framing for ADAPS. Now, after 40 years in his shop in Tyldesley, today is the day he hangs up his framing business and … Continued

  Last night I was judging at South Manchester, always a pleasure to see such a full house of friendly photographers. There were prints, digital images and a special third competition of shots showing “Sophisication”. That proved to be an … Continued

  Today’s adventure took us to Carr Mill near St Helens. Here’s a sample of the first images I have shot of Powerboat Racing. Pentax K-3 II with the HD Pentax-D FA 150-450mm lens. Hopefully back again in two weeks … Continued

  Thursday 27th April found us watching Frankie Valli at Manchester Arena. What a fantastic show, with Frankie in fine voice. Near the end, Frankie’s sons brought on a birthday cake for him, and the band played “Happy Birthday to … Continued

  Yesterday was the delightful wedding of Craig and Laura. We shot some informal images through the day, which can be found on Facebook. A great day, many congratulations to Mr and Mrs Rose!

  We spent two nights at Friar’s Carse hotel in Dumfries and Galloway. Excellent food and service all round. In the short time we had we managed to fit in the Devil’s Porridge Museum, where Sue tried on the hat, … Continued

  A busy weekend at Walton Hall Gardens in Warrington on Saturday and Lyme Hall on Sunday. The pentax K-1 served well, with the brilliant high ISO performance giving good results even at 51,2oo!

Having announced the new site to the Facebook World, if you’ve come along to have a look then Welcome! I’ve added more images, an ongoing project, and there will be regular news as and when interesting things happen. The image … Continued

Yes, we sail out into the big wide world of the world wide web. What we will find we do not know, what we will say we cannot yet imagine, but hopefully some of it will make some sort of … Continued