Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018.
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018.
As we mentioned last week, this Landscape Photographer of the Year exhibition is on the balcony at Waterloo Station until 3 February. The last time we were there it was attracting a lot of attention. In the past, it was held upstairs in the National Theatre. This is the third year at Waterloo, and is we feel a superb location for attracting a cosmopolitan audience. This blog shows just a few of our favourites. Yours may well be quite different. The descriptions are really interesting in what has gone into producing such pictures and with what equipment…
Landscape Photographer of the Year – Waterloo Station.
Contre-jour et Layla.
Contre-jour et Layla
Layla on Whitby beach (Contre-jour).
Bertie: “Bobby. We get lots of compliments about the photography in Mindfully Bertie. Have you got any favourite types you would like to share?” (more…)
The Christmas 50/50… 2018.
The Christmas 50/50… 2018.
Happy New Year to all our readers. We hope you had a lovely Christmas.
Once again, Bobby and I took ourselves off to East London for the holidays. Aldgate this time. He went back to Sutton United on Boxing Day to see them win! Up the U’s. We met Andrew, Marie, Giselle and Daisy- Mae for a family spectacular. “School of Rock” and the Christmas lights from the top of a red double decker No 139 bus. (more…)
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year.
Reading “Courage to Change”.
“And a very Happy New Year to you too!”
Merry Christmas from Mindfully Bertie.
Merry Christmas from Mindfully Bertie.
From all the team at Mindfully Bertie.
This is a simple story of wanting to thank all our readers and supporters and wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Keep reading the blog in 2019. We have no idea what will be in it – as we had no idea in 2018. That’s part of the fun. The opportunity to have guest writers is still there. As is guest “Lighting a Candle for Diddley”. All we need for the latter is a few words and a picture of where the candle was lit. (more…)
Grass.
Grass.
As you know, we love the RHS Gardens at Wisley. Our last visit was to photograph some of the autumn colours there. Although, to be honest, there was no real need, given the wonderful colours round here in the Surrey Hills as shown in our slide show.
There is always lots to see at Wisley and a bonus was the climax of the ornamental grass season, of which there are masses at the gardens. So, here is our tour of those ornamental grasses in all their glory – before the scythe comes to end another season. (more…)
You’re a Twat!
You’re a Twat!
Bertie: “Bobby… Wot’s a twat?”
Bertie reads the 2018 Christmas Special of Big Issue.
The Autumn Leaves.
The Autumn Leaves.
The rain thundered down at Sutton United and we hid in the stand. Driving home on flooded roads, we knew that this was the beginning of the end of a glorious autumn. The best we could ever remember. The best that is since last year. Especially the Autumn Leaves.
One Night Last Summer.
One Night Last Summer
Bertie: “Wot! Amateur dramatics? You must be bleedin’ joking!”
Bobby: “Now look, Bertie. We are a team. Tim and Tracey together with Oakley (Technical Director, Artistic Director and Guide Dog) have kindly invited us to their daughter Debbi’s new musical with the Hinchley Manor Operatic Society. “One Night Last Summer”. They are coming down all the way by train from their canal boat in Birmingham. And we are going.”
Yours truly at the theatre.