As with last year’s review, I haven’t provided links to purchase any of the books here. You can, no doubt, find them easily enough from the usual places — unless it can be avoided I have dropped Amazon as my go-to book store, preferring to use a small independent shop, The Wedale Bookshop. They are part of a network of bookshops across the UK, supported by Bookshop.org. Read more about it on this link-clicky-thing.
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Medway North Shore
It has been rather too long since I last ventured out to document the north shore of the Medway. The banks of the tidal River Medway, from Rochester to Grain, form the southern edge of the peninsular of land between the Thames and the Medway. It is a place which appears empty, wild, and abandoned on first seeing it. It is, however, an area that has seen much industry and history over the years.
I need to get back there soon.
The turning year
The first day of September, and it is beginning of the meteorological autumn in the northern hemisphere. There may be some days of summer still to come, but there is no denying daylight is diminishing, and the first frosts won’t be far off. My social media is filling with images of fruit and vegetables from keen gardeners, and the leaves on local trees are just beginning to turn.
Another from the archives.
Romney Marsh and Dungeness
In 2012 I thought it might be fun to organise regular monthly photo walks around Kent. I managed to persuade a hard core of fellow photographers to play along. I enjoyed seeing how others approached making photos of the same subject, and sharing tips and techniques. We also shared the results of our labours via the late lamented medium of Google+. Don’t judge. It was a good place for photographers.
As ever with such things, numbers attending walks tailed off, interest generally began to wane, I found it harder to be enthused about planning and organising things, and eventually we pulled the plug. Over the period of about a year we managed nine walks around Kent. It was fun while it lasted.
There is something about the Romney Marsh, Dungeness and the Denge. It is an other-worldly place, a proper liminal space, that seems to have little to do with the rest of the coast on either side. I love it, and I should try to get down there again before too long.