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recordings at the Cove on Portland

Sunday, April 24th, 2011

First recording is sitting up on the esplanade bit, with a coastguard helicopter flying overhead. And two youngsters walk by saying “its always going to be cooler by the sea.”

The second recording features some very faint gunfire; its quite in the distance, along the coast is a army practice range that backs onto the fleet. I was amazed you could hear it so far away, amazing how sound can travel over water with nothing blocking it.

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Portland Cove recording of waves, children and some faint gunfire in the distance [ 2:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup

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Bournemouth Echo promotes photography exhibition

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

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Landscape and Industry Exhibition

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

This exhibition aims to document our working environment; photographs that show the traces of histories, the remains of old infrastructures and the development of new ones. Local photography club the Happy Snappers have worked with artist Joe Stevens. Together they have been working on an oral history project called “Our Working Lives’. We have been talking to local residents about the jobs they did, how they found work, and the career advice they received. We have been working with Poole Museum on this and it was interesting to see the lack of records in their photography archive on people at work and the places where they worked. They have a lot on the Mayors, official functions and the scenic places, but not so much on the everyday landscape that we travel through; the trading estates; the shops and its commercial panorama.

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Sunday Morning

Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Took some time out this glorious Sunday spring morning. Been busy, busy; curating a photography exhibition – Landscape and Industry. Due to go up at Poole Lighthouse next week. Just fin the final edit of photos and got them off to printers. Caught up with news and events with a leisurely breakfast, large coffee and newspapers, while I listened to the different birds busy flying overhead. Then off for a walk up Barr Lane, took the long way to get some eggs for lunch. Spring is in the air, all around, with the birds singing away.

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