That First Post...

I live in Boston, Lincolnshire (That is the UK Boston) which is an expanding town in the south west corner of The Wash.  It is on what is effectively a river estuary (by a stretch of the imagination) and has a port and a separate, accessible quayside which supports a decent fishing fleet.  

I have issues of walking any distance and since I have started using a Veloped I am a regular visitor to the Quayside and the surrounding areas.  Many of my pictures are of the Quay, the boats and the birdlife surrounding it. 

I have been developing my hobby of photography.  Having joined a group where I commit to posting (and taking!) one picture a day, I have been taking so many it is becoming difficult to decide which one to post and then what to do with the remaining pictures of the day.  So the raison d’être of this blog is to post some of these pictures and include some details, perhaps memories about them.  This may seem trivial to anyone reading this but I do want to develop my hobby and I also want to remember the shots I took.  I’m not getting any younger.

But it’s not all grand pictures of boats and birdlife.  This hobby has opened my eyes to a world around me which for much of my life has gone unnoticed. Some examples: A coil of rope; the micro-architecture of an old building; some rusting, discarded machinery; plants growing in cracks in the pavement.  I could go on, but these are pictures that are sometimes challenging to capture and while they have great meaning for me would be trivial for somebody else.  It is these pictures that I hope to store in this blog.

So anyone who is interested can look here.  Comment if you want to, but the memories and pictures are for me on a personal level and I’m not aiming to exhibit them or to please anyone in particular!