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 | Travel Photography
Imagine having two passions that deliver entirely different types of satisfaction, both equally satisfying; one is tangible, requires most of the senses, including smell. The other is the ability to revel in memories – a pastime increasingly difficult as one ages, without repeated diagnoses of dementia and worse. Sod it. Too many words, […]
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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 | 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 […]
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