By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
It was my own fault. I live on a canal boat and had walked up the mooring pontoon first thing to drop my bag of rubbish in the bin. Despite wintry conditions in recent days, it felt decidedly warmer – ideal for a swap from denims to shorts for today’s shoot in Loughborough. Arriving […]
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By Paul Perton | Monday Post
Celebrity photographers are probably a bit less visible than they were a year or so back. Then, it was hard to trawl the Web, open a newspaper, or read a book without being confronted by some kind of publicity for some snapper, or other. They’re still around and my mailbox continues to play host […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
The last twenty four hours of our stay in the UK and something is nagging at me. Something I’ve forgotten, something important. No, not to everyone. Just me. My many trips to the UK in recent years have always left me time to indulge my passion for steam trains. This time, lots of […]
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By Paul Perton | News
In 2009, a completely unexpected and very interesting photographic book competition was launched. SoFoBoMo (be warned – it’s a bitch to type) or Solo Photo Book Month, laid out a simple rule; take not less than 35 photographs in a four week period, lay the images out into book format, convert to PDF and submit […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
The Interwebs is wonderful. The other day, I discovered that Ceres Rail – a new preservation group, with its base at the old South African Railways sidings at the town from which it gets its name – has just started running weekly scheduled steam hauled trips to the neighbouring town of Wolseley, some 16km […]
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By Paul Perton | Travel Photography
I know it now and have done for a few weeks; Selebi Phikwe (SP) is a lot further than 2000km from where I live near Cape Town. And, truth to tell, if I hadn’t paid the deposit before I bothered to work that out, I wouldn’t be doing this. If. Perhaps. Wouldn’t. Sigh. I’m […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | Travel Photography
This is a guest post by Paul Perton, a talented English photographer living in South Africa and with a passion for steam trains. A beautiful online essay on this subject is available here : http://issuu.com/paulperton2/docs/saving_steam?e=2443592/4847084 Thanks a lot to Paul for the contribution. We hope others will follow and invite other readers to submit theirs […]
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