Bulleid Merchant Navy pacific 35005 'Canadian Pacific' storms Parkstone Bank from a standing start at Poole on February 12th, 2000

Looking across Old Amersham from the top of Amersham on the Hill. Not a family pic. they just happened to come into frame at the right moment.

Bait diggers by Poole Harbour 1978

Bono fronting U2 at the Torhout (Belgium) rock festival in July 1982

Bono fronting U2 at the Torhout (Belgium) rock festival in July 1982

Catkin.

A frosty morning in the Chess Valley nearer Little Chalfont than Chesham.

The distinctive Chrysler building in New York photographed from the Empire State building in July 1982.

Burnham Beeches.

Cornflowers in the snow. Stoke Poges 1979.

River Tavy in the wilds of Dartmoor 1978.

Trees are rare on Dartmoor and are always stunted. I was told that this miserable example of treehood is an oak.

Low viewpoint at the end of Dorchester West station whilst awaiting a steam engine.

December 1978 and two horse-drawn drays wait patiently outside the Sole Bay Inn in the middle of Southwold, Suffolk, the home of Adnams brewery which is just across the road from this location.

One of Dorset's most famous sights is Durdle Door.

This delightful oddity was photographed at the end of a display day at Duxford (I think) in 1978 and features a propeller turner which Ken Hunter has kindly informed is a Hucks starter named after it's designer. This example is based on a Ford Model T chassis.

Fleetwood Smack. a nice snappy title but probably factually incorrect. Anyway, a fishing boat photographed from the erstwhile footbridge at Fleetwood station in 1969 and in the middle of a mid-summer's day despite what the lighting might indicate.

No idea what this is.

On the first Saturday in October 1979 I was taken on my one and only glider flight. This is the tow plane shortly before it dropped us off shortly after taking off from the airfield at High Wycombe.

Mushroom or toadstool?

Mushroom or toadstool?

Mushroom or toadstool?

Seahorse Goldilocks and Seahorse Cineralla, aka Goldy & Cindy, on a favourite resting place in the sun's rays in our flat at Uithoorn 1982.

Bovingdon (Herts.) airfield.

Kasteel De Haar near Haarzuilens in the Netherlands.

Common lizard at Rewe (Devon) in July 1998.

Middelburg in The Netherlands. A newly restored house, well, the upper floors thereof, went up in smoke during a massive electric storm. Our butcher neighbour lost his entire chilled stock that day as his shop was also struck by lightning that blew the main fuse.

Ice skaters on natural ice at Middelburg, Zeeland, 1980.

Arguably the finest surviving example of Flemish late Gothic architecture is Stadhuis Middelburg in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Photographed early on a spring morning in 1981 which was easy as I lived only about 200 metres from it at the time.

Bergen (Norway) in 1960.

Sunset over Poole Harbour.

Portchester castle: Asherton Tower taken through the window of Henry 8th's kitchen.

Portchester castle: taken from the keep showing the excavations that took place in 1968. The two oak trees were felled in the late 70s.

My only good shot of a rainbow and taken from my landing window in Chesham with a long-focus zoom lens back in 1978/9.

This doesn't look much but I rate it as, technically, one of my best pictures The almshouses cat at Windsor Castle was obviously a resident!

Saffron was a typical Irish Setter with spurts of manic activity followed by long periods of rest.

Not sure if this shot is really good enough to showcase. Taken from the cab window of a fast-moving lorry in the south of France.

It's starburst filter time!. Amsterdamse Bos.

One of 1,800 echinoderm species (class Asteroidea).

Steve Miller and some of his band at the Torhout (Belgium) rock festival in July 1982

River Thames near Marlow in the spring of 1978.

Well, it's right-hand drive which isn't unusual if one is British (or Japanese) but this isn't a British vehicle and the picture was taken in torrential rain during the Dortse stoom Weekend in 1983. The vehicle is a preserved Swiss Post Bus all of which were right-hand drive.

I can't recall what the occasion was nor even, for certain, where I took it but I'm pretty sure that the location is Cannes circa 1986.

Just away from the edge of Veerse Meer in the Netherlands.

Ventnor Pier in 1953.

The windmill at Wilnis (province of Utrecht, Netherlands) and the only working survivor in the Ronde Venen area. De Veenmolen of Korenmolen in Wilnis. De enige nog werkende molen in De Ronde Venen.

Windmill 'De Hoop' at Loenen aan de Vecht in The Netherlands. Built in 1902/3 and photographed in the spring of 1990.

I was always fascinated by these quite small lift bridges seen in The Netherlands where they commonly provide crossings over sloten (drainage ditches). However, creating an imaginative image of them is something else and one hopes that this effort is successful. Almost cetainly taken in Middelburg with the available light fading rapidly.

In early 1980 there was a series of spectacular red sunsets off the coast of Zeeland and I chose the beach at Zoutelande to photograph some of them