Nour Jaounda’s If the olive trees knew 2023

RSPB Ham Wall: light and wonder at sunrise

This site-specific project comprises landscape and wildlife images celebrating the wonder of nature in the solitude and stillness of sunrise.

Stitching Souls: Threads of Silence is an exhibition currently on show at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool. Created by the artist Karen McLean, it focuses on the juxtaposition of the grand portraits of Liverpool aristocratic merchants from the gallery’s collection, and the silenced history of slavery and colonialism.

Space @ Wells Cathedral is, to quote, an  “immersive fine art experience that combines light and sound…which blends contemporary art with historical contexts to transform public and unexpected places into extraordinary art installations…immersive experiences that bring the history and, heritage, and art of each unique location to life, creating stained glass windows of our time.” www.luxmuralis.com

Cider making has a long tradition in Somerset. The distinctive soils and weather conditions combine to make the land around the Somerset levels ideal for cider apple orchards.

Vicar’s Close is one of Europe’s oldest residential streets with its buildings still in use. It was built in 14th century to house the Vicars Choral, the priests who chanted daily services in Wells Cathedral.

The St Gotthard pass is a mountain pass in the Alps in Switzerland that crosses the St Gotthard massif and connects northern Switzerland with southern Switzerland. The pass lies between the German speaking canton of Uri and the Italian speaking canton of Ticino, and connects the cities of Lucerne, Basel and Zurich with those of Bellinzona , Locarno and Lugano further south. It had not long been open when we drove through it June. It is popular with cyclists and bikers as the images show…but other modes of transport are also available.

Hay-on-Wye was established as the Town of Books by Mr Richard Booth in 1961 and since then it has become the world's largest Second hand and antiquarian book centre. Some of the bookshops specialise in specific genres whilst others carry general stock. At the centre of the town is Hay Castle, where on 1st April 1977 entrepreneurial bookseller Richard Booth declared Hay-on-Wye an independent kingdom and he its king. His royal subjects created regalia fitting for such an illustrious figure. The crown is decorated with glass jewels from a dog collar, the sceptre was fashioned from brass plumbing pipes, and the orb from a toilet ballcock.

The Peace Doves immersive art installation held recently in Wells Cathedral comprised thousands of paper doves suspended above the nave of the cathedral.

‘Another Place’ consists of 100 iron casts of the artist’s body, which are spread out over three kilometres of the shore and stretch about one kilometre out to sea, at Crosby just north of Liverpool. The figures are set into the shore at different depths, and all look out to sea.

The title of this article caught my attention. It made me think about how far I had come on my photographic journey and what I would need to do to become a better photographer.

The Holbourne Museum in Bath is currently hosting an exhibition by the Turner prize-winner Lubiana Himid.

It is estimated that some 2,900 burials took place in the 85 years that Mendip Hopital Cemetery was in use.

The Garden of Reflection was one of the last areas to be developed within the Bishop’s Palace gardens. A former bishop, Peter Price, wanted there to be a space dedicated to quiet reflection and contemplation – a place where people would find rest and calm.