Having blogged about some photos I found of my family camping in the 60s, I’ve found some of my mother’s Birtwistle family caravaning in the 30s in Treaddur Bay near Holyhead. I can’t actually work out whether it was my mother’s family doing the caravaning or their friends/relations. Certainly, nearby Rhosneigr was a favourite...
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I’m flattered that Emma Bradshaw has been in touch to suggest we upload our photos to the camping under canvas FlickR Group. I have to say that I’m not sure that my efforts on the point-and-click setting on my Panasonic Lumix are actually worthy of being included in such inspiring company, but it’s very...
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I’ve just been checking out a fab photostream of vintage literature on camping, caravans and suchlike that Ivan found on FlickR. I love the 1939 John Smith’s Camping Catalogue one, it’s even got a picture of a Bell Tent just like mine in it. Wonder if they used to add bunting to them back...
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Most of the camping trips we took as a family when I was a kid merge together into one glorious adventure. We packed up the car, piled in and drove for three days to the south coast of Spain. It was a time before motorways, before airconditioning and before international recovery. We sweltered and...
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I would love to read Terence Young’s article in the journal of Environmental History On Camping and Its Equipment that Ivan pointed out to me. Apparently, it’s the first they’ve published about the ‘mind-boggling array of gear that campers lug into the nation’s parks and forests’, despite numerous essays on ‘recreating in the great...
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Ivan’s pinged over a link to SMOKE BATH, “a collection of photographs and art work loosely based on the theme of camping, nature, and exploring”. Not sure if this is ever going to be printed as a book or mag, but would love a copy if it is as there’s some fantastic images.
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After less than a week, we’ve just had our first inbound link from Emma Bradshaw’s Blog. As mention below, her photography is an inspiration and so great shame I can’t make her Picnic Picture Workshop on July 3rd in Gloucester. I’d love to learn how to take photographs like hers, rather than just point...
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I’ve been really enjoying Emma Bradshaw’s photostream on FlickR and her blog, and just wish I could take photos like these. My kids love them too, and I’m hoping that we might subliminally inspire them to help with the washing up too. They definitely like the idea of using our Rhino Flexitub to wash...
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One of the nice things about the Wowo campsite is that they not only allow log fires, but deliver the logs to your pitch. So many thanks to Phil Jackson for showing me how to change the exposure settings on my Panasonic Lumix, although think I might have spent rather too much time ignoring...
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