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Ghosts
I’ve been a fan of photographing cemeteries for years. Way back in winter 1995 I was out photographing a snowy cemetery as my Dad called my university landline to try and get the news to me that my...
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The Old Age of Youth
“Forty is the old age of youth” Victor Hugo This week my gorgeous friend joined the old age of youth. Welcome! This decade rocks and you’re rocking it! The post The Old Age of Youth appeared first on...
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Riverbank
And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river For men may come and men may go But I go on for ever. Alfred Lord Tennyson The post Riverbank appeared first on Exposing40.
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The Edge
I’m spending the weekend in the Peak District celebrating a friend’s 40th. This morning we went rafting on the River Derwent, ate roast beef sandwiches in the pub next door to our cottage for lunch,...
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Lido
Today has been earmarked for one of mine and Exhibit A’s weekend photo adventures for a good two or three months – we tend to plan them around Livvy’s weekend shifts so we know quite a way in advance...
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Dark Passage
Me: “What shall I call your bottom?” @19syllables: “Dark passage!” This was the final location on mine and @19syllables’s day trip to Margate at the end of June. The Shell Grotto is a great mystery. A...
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Collaboration
I describe Exposing 40 as a collaboration. My strapline is ‘Friends. Photography. Adventure.’ So I really couldn’t let this week’s Wicked Wednesday prompt go past unmarked. In the true spirit of the...
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Headland
I’m spending bank holiday weekend in Cyprus with one of my oldest and closest friends. I had thought we might get a photo adventure at some point – find some quiet beaches and spectacular headlands for...
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Who was Albert Ede?
It’s no secret that I love shooting in cemeteries. You can rummage around my site or other people’s and you’ll find many examples me and my friends of getting naked with dead people! Something I often...
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Dilly Dilly
“Lavender blue, dilly-dilly Lavender green If I were king, dilly-dilly, I’d need a queen…” I’ve been sitting in a hammock doing some googling and I’ve learnt that dilly was a medieval word for...
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Wuthering Heights
“Out on the wiley, windy moors We’d roll and fall in green” Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights As I’ve said here before, I am called Catherine because my Mum was reading Wuthering Heights when she was...
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In Ruins
Here’s the second in a series of three photos I’m posting from my recent photo adventure with Missy. This photo was taken in the same location as this weekend’s post from her. We were so lucky to have...
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Hole in the Wall
Here is the third and final (for now!) photo from my day out with Missy. As regular readers know, it’s very rare for me to show my belly – I much prefer to focus on my arse and legs, which I approve of...
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Peaking Around the Corner
A new year and a new decade is just around the corner and I’m excited to see it unfold. I love this time of year. I have a couple more days with my parents which I’ll enjoy but really I’m itching to...
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Ferns
“Spread a fern frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out and freedom and beauty and peace come in.” John Muir On Tuesday, Exhibit A and I had a photo adventure in the woods. It was food...
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Coimetrophilia
Coimetrophilia; a special interest and fondness in cemeteries and graveyards (noun). Anyone who looks at my blog regularly will know now much I love photographing in cemeteries. One of my current...
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Contrasts
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns to grow in a cemetery.” Andrea Gibson* On Tuesday afternoon Exhibit A and I headed to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park to...
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In the Meadow
“Be like the sun and the meadow, which are not the least concerned about the coming winter.” George Bernard Shaw August has been such a tonic. Hanging out with family and friends has felt like taking...
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At Rest
The photos from my day out with Honey and Monstrous Jaffa keep on coming. This time it’s me! The post At Rest appeared first on Exposing40.
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Vagary
These days vagary is most commonly used when we talk about the vagaries of a situation, meaning an unpredictable or erratic occurrence. But the etymology of the word is vagari, the Latin word for...
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