Random Acts of Would-be Photography: January 2017

Monday, 16 January 2017

Nature in January

These photos are proof that I am wrong about January. I think of it as a "dead' month - cold and inhospitible. I have very few poems, if any, written about January. These photos remind me that I am wrong. January can be as lovely as any month (even if it is darn cold).

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Sheep

This post "does what it says on the tin". It is titled sheep and it contains pictures of sheep, specifically sheep at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire on a sunny, January day.

If you like sheep, enjoy. If you don't like sheep, you may be wanting to move on by now.

Sunday, 1 January 2017

Hello 2017, Goodbye 2016

Well it's that time of year, i.e. the start of brand new one, when I produce a post that is more words than photos. Time to reflect on the past twelve months (photographically speaking) and to peer groggily into the uncertain depths of the new one.

At the beginning of 2016 I set myself the goal of developing a primarily random photo blog. I think I managed that, by and large.

In January I posted birds and words. February saw the cover art for my (then) forthcoming poetry collection, Years Ago You Coloured Me. March was a touristy, photographic tour of central Cambridge. In April I had a breather and then, in May, there was a flood of posts: the industry of farming, spring words and images, books and words plus an update on things that had been keeping my busy at the time and images of the stunning Willington Dovecote. June saw another quartet of posts: 2016's Strawberry Fair, Cambridge's Mill Road Cemetery, a plethora of poppies and Rousham Gardens in Oxfordshire. July saw a further lull in activity and then August, well August produced twelve posts including rural South Cambridgeshire, another tour of Central Cambridge, scenes of North Norfolk and six nature posts. September concluded the nature photograph posts with a rather queasy photo and threw in Audley End House and some mighty fine buzzards for good measure. October was quiet, November had cute cats, I hibernated in December and here it is, January 2017 already. I managed 27 posts in total during 2016, only 2 less than 2015.

So, January 2017 and the fourth year of this blog. I have no idea what I'm going to be doing this year. Photos, I guess and maybe some words. I'm just going to go with the flow. Care to flow with me...?

Before we are engulfed by the waters of 2017, however, here are some more images from 2016 by way of a farewell to the old year.