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Archive for February, 2012

A pretty busy week.   I’ve been working steadily on my second novel, a crime thriller set in a rundown town on the coast in North East England.  I’ve also downloaded the photo editing software GIMP and am finding my way around it.  GIMP’s open source and free to download, and I hear that it has many [...]

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I’ve had a busy few days with little access to the internet.   On Saturday afternoon, I went out in the rain with my camera and took a number of shots in Highgate Wood, North London, trying to protect the camera from getting a good soaking.  I would have stayed longer and done more, but I [...]

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Hi again. I’m currently working on a new novel, Halfway House.  It tells the story of Wayne, a  boy who resorts to desperate measures when confronted with a problem at the age of twelve.  The story opens with the central character, now 19, living in some dire hostel in a run down, neglected town by the [...]

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More Snow…

A couple of shots taken late afternoon in Highgate Wood, North London:  

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I’m working on a new crime thriller set on the outskirts of Manchester and told through central character Wayne (12).   The biggest challenge, I think, lies in the narrative style and getting it to reflect the age of the character.  At the same time, the character, an only child, seems to have developed in ways that other [...]

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Sun And Cold

I took several shots on the way to work yesterday afternoon.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t carry my “proper” camera around with me in the middle of the day, but the camera on my smartphone enables some degree of control in regards to white balance, ISO and metering.  Darlands Lake, Totteridge , North London:  

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First day of February, and the temperature has dipped.   You can feel the chill against your bones, and apparently things will get worse at the weekend.    Recently, I read through viewpoint sections of Dark Whispers, the first ever novel I wrote (the one I felt just didn’t come alive for me in the way I’d [...]

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