The illuminated entrance to the Central Library, with a silver birch tree in the background complete with Christmas lights. On a cold and damp December evening.
The remains of a former WWII German gun bunker is seen here on the beach.
An example of the same image but with two separate treatments. The first print is a straight forward wet-process hand printed image. The second is the same image but this one has been sepia toned. Basically immersed in a two bath sepia toner which changes the appearance of the print and increases the tonal range, at the same time giving the photographic print a archival permanence.
Another poignant image from the 'Shot at Dawn' Plot. The white stone statue depicts a young British soldier facing a firing squad. The dozens of wooden posts represent the three hundred such victims from the mud, blood and trenches of the First World War.
An image taken at a local scrap yard for a city and guilds assignment. The finished print has being sepia toned.
A steel Obelisk besides a Churchill tank is a memorial located in this village which is close to "Sword" Beach. One of the designated landing areas for British forces on the morning of 6th June 1944.
I think this photograph looks very painterly. A little 'Monet' in perspective perhaps? Silver birch trees reflected in a lake.
A young Cocker Spaniel dog is all ready and prepared for an operation in the Operating Room. The resulting operation was successful by the way.
A brooding dark summer sky over this lovely part of the North Yorkshire Coast.
A former British Second World War D-Day Veteran, who served in the British 6th Airborne Division poses for my camera. It is quiet appropriate don't you think, especially bearing in mind that we are now approaching Remembrance Sunday, that this image of a brave old warrior should appear on my blog now.
The 13.30 hour train to Sheffield just a minute before it left the station.
These simple white crosses mark the final resting place of thousands of young American GIs who fell in the battle for "Omaha" beach on D-Day, and the subsequent battle for Normandy. It is a very moving place to visit. If you have seen the film "Saving Private Ryan", then you will have seen this cemetery has it is featured in both the opening and closing sequences of this film.
Two ladies indulge in a spot of window shopping, by looking into the front of this shop.
A puddle on one of the platforms clearly shows a section of the Railway Station's roof. 
Members of the public with their domestic pets wait in the Waiting and Reception area of the PDSA Animal Treatment Centre to see the duty Vet.
In this image is a mutiple in-camera shot of a parking lot, shot from a nearby high rise building, the finished print was sepia toned. 
People enjoying a sit down on the quayside, with the church on the cliff top opposite in clear view, that inspired Bram Stoker when he was writing "Dracula".
A large pebble is stuck in the gap between two pieces of a wooden 'groyne'. Which is part of the beach defences.
Normandy Veteran and former WWII RAF Regiment Soldier Ben Bainbridge poses for the camera, holding his sister's 1939 evacuee issue suitcase.
The "Hull & Humber" boat is moored up here just days before the start of the "Clipper Round the World Race".
An old Swing Bridge is in the foreground of this shot. With the boat's from the "Round the World Clipper Race", moored up in the background.
The base of an old stone monument, which is showing signs of decay is featured here.
The Canadian entrant in the "Clipper Round the World Race". Moored up in Hull Marina before the start of the race.
Another image from the "Clipper Race". All ten yachts were in the Marina before the start of the race and they drew huge crowds (well not in this photo).
Another image from my recent 'Flora' range, again it is a gerboa flower head, lit by natural light and using a Close-up filter fitted to a 50mm lens.
From the "Clipper Round the World Race". When all the yachts were in Hull Marina for 6 days before the start of the race. Here a crew member of "Lighting Bolt" is high up in the boat's rigging. In the background is one of the few remaining original (now refurbished) old Warehouses - 'Warehouse 13', now a residential block.
This image is of a final resting place of someone in Undercliffe Cemetery. An old Victorian Cemetery (and Nature Reserve) which is the final resting place for many of the wealthy "Victorian Wool Barons" and their families.
The late afternoon summer sun casts and creates shadows of these metal hand railings onto the concrete paving of the promenade.
A orange Gerboa flower head is featured in this still-life study. I was experimenting using a set of close-up filters fitted to a 50 mm standard lens (both of which I should really use more often). Lit by natural light, coming in from a south facing window.
The hull of a boat is featured in this image. In the harbour at this popular North East coastal town and fishing port.
A still-life study, shot in the studio. Which features a loaned photograph of six soldiers from a signals unit of the British Army, who have just returned home to Hull after being evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940. The photograph was loaned to me by the son of the soldier (second from the left).
Reeds in the foreground give way to wind swept ripples upon the water, then the reflection of the footbridge in the water before the footbridge itself.
In the depths of the New Forest, a small river winds it's way through the landscape.
The shadows of several trees are reflected in the gleaming paintwork of this car. Quiet symbolic this image I think, you have the car (one of the biggest pollution causer's) and the reflection of the trees which counter-act this pollution by absorbing noxious gasses.
A white coloured vegetable oil silo and steps leading up to the top are featured in this shot, with a fluffy white cloud just creeping from behind the silo in the foreground and into view.
Looking up along and through to the doomed roof of this hall of steel. Where dozens of pikes, lances, swords, muskets, breast plates and helmets are displayed upon the walls.
Now I should not imagine that this piece of garden furniture has washed up here. This discarded item sits in front of a collection of concrete "tank blocks" from the Second World War era, that now form part of the sea wall defences against the North Sea.
The shadows of various trees are cast onto a footpath.
Just after some rain on a winter evening, the traffic lights are reflected in a puddle on the pavement, along with the wheel of a bicycle.
A wild young common seal. An experimental image in the sense that the print was briefly exposed to white light i.e. solarisation (in the darkroom) then developed, stopped and fixed not quite as normal though. I then increased the contrast when scanning the print. But it looks okay to me. None of the seals were disturbed by me, during the photography.
This young dog is recovering from a canine virus, in the Recovery Kennels of the Hull branch of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA).
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