It was our penultimate day today and the weather forecast was not good until mid-afternoon. We were staying at the Bridge Hotel in Buttermere, jolly nice room and good beer and food last night. Good breakfast too to set us […]
It’s day 3 of our trek in the Lake District. Scales Force Upper Falls and Al Today is a sort of rest day as it’s just 6 miles and 1500 feet (less than 500m) of ascent over a small peak […]
It was day 2 of my 5 day trek in the Lakes with Al. After a big breakfast at the Royal Oak in Braithwaite we were on our way at the crack of 9.45am. Golly what an early start! From […]
Today was the first day of my annual hill walking trek with old friend Al from Gloucester. It’s just 5 days this time as I wasn’t sure my bad back would last the usual 8 days. We started from the […]
We have run quite a few landscape photography courses here in the Peak District during March and April. Fortunately we hardly had any rain, certainly nothing to stop what we were doing but it was a bit variable. As we […]
Today, Sunday 8th May 2016 is our last day at the Living Crafts Show at Hatfield House. We’re in Marquee G until 5pm. Here’s the link to my last post to give you an idea of what to expect. We […]
We are exhibiting at Living Crafts at Hatfield House until this Sunday 8th May, 10am to 5pm. Our first show of 2016. Lots of prints, 5 new city triptych’s (1 sold already) London, Paris, Venice, half price framed big hand […]
Al, Jan and I finished the first half of the Cotswold Way today by walking from Witcombe to Randwick. Al was dropped off by his wife Carol as we are just a couple of miles from their house. We couldn’t […]
Today was our fourth day on the Cotswold Way. We drove back to 7 Springs this morning to resume our walk where we finished yesterday, well not exactly as the pub wasn’t open! It was 10 miles in total, starting […]
After a very comfortable night at the Rising Sun in Cleeve Hill we had to don full waterproofs before we stepped out of the hotel door. It was wet and windy for an hour or so then dry and dull. […]
My day started, as usual, with an hour or so of stretches and exercises for my bad back before going down to breakfast at 9am. It was a jolly good full English breakfast at the Winchcombe Plaisterers Arms. Jan then […]
Today, Tuesday 5th April, we started the Cotswold Way and it was a sunny day! Jan and I met up with good friend Al from Gloucester, spending the night at the Red Lion in Chipping Campden. We also visited the 8 […]
I have added new black and white photographs of 3 Swiss cities, Geneva, Lausanne and Lucerne. They weren’t taken this year but I have just scanned the negatives to add to the existing sets. The Lucerne set also includes a […]
I recently loaded some more black and white photographs of Exmoor to my gallery website, www.davebutcher.co.uk. All taken in January 2016 on Ilford 120 film, FP4 and 400 Delta, using Mamiya 7 cameras. Exmoor Trees Great Hangman Hill near Combe […]
The photo is of one of the Peak District locations, a few miles from home, that I used for the recent 2 day Experience Black and White course. It was a private course for Trevor from Sheffield who wanted to […]
I have scanned a few of my Ilford FP4 120 film negatives from our recent trip to Exmoor. We stayed in Lynmouth and were able to walk to and from Watersmeet. If you did it there and back it’s probably […]
I have started scanning and editing the films that I took on our trip to Exmoor in January. So far I have just done the Lynmouth Harbour images. The next set will be the ones of Watersmeet just a couple […]
I have just loaded the recent photographs to my www.davebutcher.co.uk website that I took when we visited Bristol 3 weeks ago. Our first visit to Bristol – ever, albeit just for one night! They were all taken with my Mamiya […]
My first 3 books are now sold out. High Light and Lake Light sold out in 2015, that’s 2000 copies of High Light and 1500 copies of Lake Light. The final 8 copies of Peak Light were sold at the […]
Jan and I walked the local hills near where we live in the Peak District the other day. We started from above Combs village and made our way onto Combs Moss. It was windy but dry and overcast. As we […]
Today we had wall-to-wall blue sky all day with near freezing temperatures. This was to be our last day of the trip before heading home tomorrow (Thursday) and we decided to have one last coastal walk. One thing that we […]
At last, a sunny day! To make the most of it we decided to use the car to visit as many locations as possible, rather than going for a walk. First of all, we revisited Countisbury Hill and took the […]
Today started dull, with rain forecast, but it stayed dry all day – the dull bit they got right unfortunately! On days like these big views often look flat but it’s perfect for waterfalls. Sunlit waterfalls often disappoint because details […]
Having arrived in Lynmouth late afternoon yesterday, today was our first full day in Exmoor. It was a nice day so we decided to head for the Valley of Rocks, just outside Lynton and Lynmouth. Not bright sunshine but overcast […]
We had a couple of hours on Saturday morning to take photos around Bristol. It was a crisp, cold, sunny day and we started close to our hotel with the Georgian Terraced houses in Royal York Crescent. Then we went […]
Happy New Year! In case you were wondering where I’d got to I just took it easy for a few weeks. My bad back was the worst it’s been in 12 years through 2015 with 4 really bad episodes. So […]
We are doing our last show of 2015 in Harrogate, just a couple of hours north from our home in the Peak District. It’s run by Country Living magazine in the Harrogate International Centre and is open every day from […]
The Craft in Focus Christmas Contemporary Art Fair at RHS Wisley is on now. Jan has set up our stand and is there on her own to run it. Our stand is just inside the entrance to the fair. Here’s […]
We have done fewer Christmas shows this year than previously. Just 2 left over the next 2 weekends, RHS Wisley with Craft in Focus starts on Wednesday 25th and runs to Sunday 29th November. Country Living Christmas Fair in Harrogate […]
We are busy at the Crafts for Christmas Gift Fair at the Glasgow SECC. It runs from today, Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th, 10 am to 5pm. We have lots of new photographs, several hundred of my black and white […]
I have added some new images of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia in Canada, onto my gallery website; www.davebutcher.co.uk. These were taken in May 2015 on my Mamiya 7 film camera using Ilford FP4 120 film. There’s a few […]
I have added a post to my DarkroomDave.com website with the processing times for the Ilford films that I use, namely, FP4, SFX and Delta 400. There is also a table of data to make it easier to follow. I […]
We are exhibiting at Wellington College, Crowthorne (near Bracknell) this weekend, as well as today! Jan is running our stand single handed as usual, my back has very painful recently so I couldn’t help even if I wanted to. The […]
In May and June we had a trip to the Canadian Rockies and Northern California. This also included a few cities, one of which was Vancouver. I have now had time to scan some of the film negatives that I […]
Having just returned from Snowdonia on Wednesday we drove to Reeth in Swaledale for a couple of nights to meet up with some old friends. On Sunday we walked west along the river to Gunnerside and had lunch at the […]
We have a stand at the Buxton Summer Fête this weekend, in the main Octagon area. Lots of new photographs, all taken on Ilford film and printed in the darkroom. Lots of show offers too. Last 2 copies of Lake […]
I have just started scanning my 74 rolls of Ilford film from our recent trip to California and Canada. Today I scanned and edited 7 photographs, all taken on Ilford FP4 120 film with 10 negatives to each roll using […]
The day after returning from 4 weeks taking photos in North America we drove to Eskdale to run a 2 day private landscape photo course for Trevor, who set up and ran the machine to print my last 4 books […]
This post has been delayed somewhat, catching up after having 4 weeks away and phone problems. The photos for trip posts are all taken on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. Unfortunately, it has been running down the battery in just […]
From Whistler Jan drove us back to Vancouver. A Bald Eagle swooped around the road just north of the city. Next day it was more photos around Vancouver, as well as good beers at the Tap and Barrel pub. Back […]
After 2 days in a hotel room in Jasper laying on a bed with a bad back I was still unable to do much. A short walk each morning and another each evening to Jasper Brewery for sustenance was a […]
After almost 2 weeks my bad back decided to let me know it was doing too much. We revisited Moraine Lake to take photos with a lot less snow and ice. Moraine Lake Most of the shots were done but […]
It’s Sunday night and we find ourselves in the bar of our hotel in Lake Louise after our 2nd full day here. Still ice on lots of the higher lakes but others look like it’s summer already. Snow on the […]
Today Jan drove us from Kamloops to Lake Louise. Quite a pretty drive through the Rockies but so many trees! We arrived in the village at 3.30pm.After checking in and a short break to help my back recover from the […]
We left Victoria on Wednesday morning after a leisurely start. We had a great time, really enjoyed the city, surroundings and were well looked after at the Empress Hotel as well as the numerous cafes and bars that we frequented. […]
Today, Victoria Day, we wandered around the harbour area, watching the tiny water taxis perform their ‘water ballet’. Then on to Victoria’s Fisherman’s Wharf. The whole area is a floating village of walkways and houses but the paths seemed rock […]
Yesterday we travelled from Vancouver to Victoria on Vancouver Island. The ferry took just over 1.5h and it was sunny but cool for the crossing. Quite a bit of traffic slowed us reaching Victoria. We reached our hotel right on […]
Jan and I are on a photo trip to Vancouver and the Canadian Rockies. We started with a couple of nights in San Francisco before coming to Vancouver yesterday. We have been to San Fran a few times so just […]
We are exhibiting at Living Crafts at Hatfield House until Sunday 10th May. You can find us in Marquee G. Lots of photographs. Lots of show offers. New books Snow Light and Land Light. Jan’s colour photos as well, including […]
We had an early breakfast at 7am as it was going to be a long tough day today. Shortly after 8am we started walking up the valley along the river. So many waterfalls! Lots of cows with very loud cow […]
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