2024 · 31 December 2030

📌📌 PRE-AMBLE: This journal contains the scribbles of a walkabout photographer with a snapshot style. This pinned entry provides an introduction to the journal and also explains all the different ways you can access it to make it easier to find things, so click in to learn more. Alternatively simply scroll through the entries below and have fun exploring their content.

2024 · 27 April 2024

The Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala 2024 with guest locomotives LMS Jubilee Class ‘Leander’ no. 45690, ‘Battle of Britain’ Class ‘Manston’ no. 34070 and ‘Lambton’ Tank no. 29. Smoke, steam, nostalgia and one of the locomotives an uncleaned and filthy dirty disappointment.

2023 · 10 July 2023

Steam locomotives pulling trains "over the alps" on the Watercress Line need to be pretty powerful by any standards, so imagine my surprise when this tiny little saddle back tank engine came puffing its way into Alresford Station happily pulling two carriages and a large guards van behind it. Over the Alps? I think not!

2022 · 14 October 2022

I shall shortly be off on another photo charter to capture some late afternoon and then night time steam engine action. For this I will use two constant aperture pro zooms and a fast pro prime...