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Just found out that it was the 40th anniversary of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk book first being published on 10th March. I didn’t realise in 1978 that we were walking it so soon after the book was published. I […]

My new book City Light is now available through the Dave Butcher web site as well as Amazon UK Dave Butcher www.davebutcher.co.uk www.darkroomdave.com

The first day of Focus on Imaging is over. My new City Light book was officially launched. We saw lots of old friends and met many new ones. I took some photos on my mobile of the stand before the […]

Jan and I walked over to the Old Hall Inn in Whitehough near Chinley for their winter ale festival on Friday. We met friends Dick and Lawraine from Birch Vale and spent a pleasant few hours catching up on each […]

My new book City Light was at the printers in Sheffield, Loop Print, today. They also printed my last book Lake Light. Here are a few shots. Jan and I went over to check the first 2 sheets of pages […]

I have just sent back what I think are the final edits to my new book, City Light – Cities of the World and Buxton. It should go to the printers later this week and be ready for launch at […]

I walked 6 miles across the local hills so that I could run Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton today. Blizzard conditions at times and a few inches of snow everywhere. The roads were slippery as I came down into […]

I have added some Cotswolds black and white photos to the web. Places include Castle Combe, Bibury, Tewkesbury, Lower Slaughter and Painswick. There’s also a few of Gloucester. Painswick Church and Pyramid Tewkesbury Abbey Mill and Weir Lower Slaughter and […]

I gave a lecture in Norwich a couple of years ago and had to stay overnight because of the distance from home.Arriving early enough for a few photos in early evening before the lecture was a bonus. The next day […]

The first set of black and white photos from our trip to the Italian Lakes in 2011 are now on the website. They include Bellagio, Menaggio and Varenna on Lake Como. There are a couple of Lake Garda ones too. […]

We nipped down to Bakewell today to take some snowy photos. Took photos of Bakewell along the river and the old bridge. Then stopped off in Ashford in the Water for shots of the church, river and Sheepwash Bridge (an […]

I have a late lecture booking tonight, to Chapel Camera Club. The venue is Chapel-en-le-Frith golf club, just a half mile from home! KO 8pm. All welcome. The lecturer they had booked is having problems returning from Antarctica. Any excuse! […]

Gave the first lecture of 2013 today to the Royal Photographic Society Northwest Monochrome Group. Now that’s what I call a snappy name!Jolly friendly bunch. Lots of book sales too.Home by 2pm, quick bite to eat before walking around Eccles […]

I have added some new images on the Dave Butcher Photography web site. They are the last few scans that were done for my new book City Light. Included are Wellington in New Zealand, Sydney, Washington DC, San Francisco, Buxton, and Manchester. There are […]

I have had a tender Achilles tendon (tendonitis) for several years, mostly in my left heel. Normal boots tend to aggravate it as the top of the boot is level with the tendon and bangs it with every step so […]

Here are a few images from our trip to Rome in December 2012. There are lots more on the Dave Butcher Photography web site.More to come when I find time. Quite a few of these will be in my new […]

My first day of 2013 looking after the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton Pavilion Gardens. Walked over this morning in the mist. Felt a bit sluggish, may have eaten too much in the last week or so! Dave Butcher […]

We visited friends in Gloucester at the end of November and nipped across to Oxford for a few hours. It was a good day for photos, although parts of Oxford were flooded after recent heavy rain. Nice skies. I took […]

We are back from our recent photo travels to Oxford and Rome; home late afternoon yesterday. Today I walked across the hills for a day in the Gallery in the Gardens in Buxton Pavilion Gardens. It was a very heavy […]

Today was the best weather-wise on our photo trip to Rome; clear blue sky and no clouds all day. Cold breeze kept it cool too. I probably took some better shots yesterday when the clouds were good but at least […]

We were busy today, walked miles, as the weather was good from mid-morning until the evening. We started in the Popolo area with some fountains before moving on to the Umberto bridge; one of the best viewpoints for the Vatican […]

We arrived in Rome today 2 hours late because of fog at Heathrow. This meant it was too late for any daytime shots; it was getting dark as we reached our hotel in the old town. We did some night […]

We visited good friends Carol and Al in Gloucester for a couple of days. That’s a bit over an hour west of Oxford. We decided to combine the visit with a photo trip to Oxford. That was yesterday, Thursday, and […]

We (well Jan is, I’m at home with my feet up – only joking!) are doing our last show of 2012 at RHS Wisley with Craft in Focus. These are always well run and the marquees this year are the […]

EventsWe have one more event in November over this coming weekend, the last Christmas show: Christmas Contemporary Craft Fair, Stand 51, Craft in Focus at RHS Wisley near Guildford, Wednesday 21st to Sunday 25th November; £7 entry, RHS members free. […]

We are at the Birmingham NEC for day 1 of the ICHF Crafts for Christmas show. Stand E6 in Hall 19. Open 9.30am to 5.30pm until Sunday night. We have several hundred photos on the stand. Show offers too! It’s […]

My Lake Light exhibition at the Woolpack Inn in Eskdale is ending in a few days time, on 31st October. Here are a few photos that I took on Jan’s Nikon D90 digital camera when we stayed at the Woolpack […]

We are at the ICHF Crafts for Christmas show at the Glasgow SECC. It’s open Thursday to Sunday 9.30am to 5pm. Our stand number is D12. I’ve included a picture of the stand to help you recognise when you’ve found […]

Jan and I are in the Lake District running another landscape Photography course. We are based at the Woolpack Inn in Boot in Eskdale.Yesterday we were in Eskdale and at Devoke Water. The waterfalls were spectacular. Not too much rain […]

Here are some photos from our recent landscape photography course based in the Glencoe area. Everyone took some spectacular shots at the 15 of so locations. Weather could have been better but it was good enough for atmospheric black and […]

Last day for checking out the state of locations that we wanted to use for our Glencoe photo course that starts Tuesday 25th. Lots of waterfalls in Glen Etive. Shots from Lochan Urr where I took one of my best […]

I ran off another 7 rolls of Ilford FP4 120 film today, 11 in total for this trip. Lots of boats and coastal/sea loch shots to start with around Glencoe and Loch Leven. Later on we returned to the Glencoe […]

It was a fantastic day in Glen Coe today. Chilly but lots of blue sky with white fluffy clouds all day until 5pm. We started by climbing the Pap of Glencoe from the Long Leven side; the steepest side but […]

Jan is driving us north for 6 hours to Glen Coe. We’re about halfway, a bit south of Glasgow. Warm and sunny here unlike Derbyshire which was cold and wet. We have some time to ourselves until Monday afternoon when […]

Here are some pictures of my Lake Light exhibition at the Woolpack Inn in Boot in Eskdale (taken by Emma Aylett of Travelling Curators who organised and hung the exhibition as part of the Lives in the Landscape exhibitions in […]

Just 1 day to go at the ICHF craft Show at Penshurst Place. It ends 5pm tomorrow. Lots to see with 10 marquees and more. We still have lots of pictures, we brought about 500 down with us to make […]

Jan drove us down to Penshurst Place in Kent near Tonbridge. We are here for the ICHF art and craft show. We set up our stand, F17, and are ready for the show to start. Opening times are 9.30am to […]

After several false starts over this wet summer Jan and I finally had a good day for taking photos there on Sunday. It was cloudy and damp in the morning but a sunny afternoon and evening was forecast. We started at […]

A new exhibition of a selection of my Lake District photographs has just opened at the Woolpack Inn in the village of Boot in Eskdale. It runs from 1st September to 31st October 2012 and can be viewed during normal […]

We are halfway through the ICHF Chilterns Craft Show at Stonor Park. 2 days gone, 2 to go. The show is just 5 miles from Henley upon Thames, 9.30am to 5.30pm. About 200 exhibitors, so lots to see. Apart from […]

Today was the last day walking this years section of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast trail with Al (@apistake) Richmond to Danby Wiske; a bit over 15 miles the way we went. See photo of Richmond Castle and River Swale from […]

It was the easiest day of our trip today, as judged by the time we reached the pub in Richmond. We left Reeth at 8.30 am after a very hearty breakfast at Cambridge House b&b. A friendly place on the […]

We had a good day today on day 3 of our trip. Sunshine all day and easy walking. More importantly after yesterday, no bog! Had breakfast at 7.30 am despite having trouble dragging Al out of the bar last night. […]

After a very nice breakfast at Castle View in Kirkby Stephen we started day 2. Overall this was day 7 of our version of Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk as we started last year. It was an easy walk out […]

Today Al and I resumed the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk. We left the Greyhound Hotel in Shap a bit after 8.30am in sunshine. With my bad back I had planned a route that was several miles shorter than the […]

Al (@apistake on Twitter) and I arrived at the Greyhound Hotel in Shap this afternoon ready to start our Coast to Coast walk tomorrow.Just the 8 real ales on so we had our work cut out to try them all. […]

We have just had a very enjoyable weekend with lots of friends staying with us, walking the hills and visiting local hostelries. The only rain from Friday morning to Sunday night was while we were in the Quiet Woman in […]

Heavy showers in the Peak District. Also some good spells of sunshine. Jan’s sister Lynne and husband Peter were staying the weekend so went for walk to 3 Shire Heads. Much less water at the falls than 2 weeks ago. […]

Tonight we had a very enjoyable evening with best friends Rob and Annie. It involved Snecklifter at the Shepherd’s in Whaley, a very nice meal on their canal boat, a couple of pints of Landlord at the Navigation, followed by […]

The Great Dome Art Fair is on this weekend, Sat 21st and Sun 22nd July 2012, 10am to 4.30pm, free entry, in the Buxton Devonshire Dome. The venue is spectacular, with one of the largest unsupported domes in Europe, bigger […]