The Vernon Arms public house at Southrepps
Good beer, good food and good company; the Vernon Arms at Southrepps near Cromer in Norfolk offers all three. If you are visiting North Norfolk ensure that the Vernon is on your itinerary.
Claws!!
A Cromer fisherman has claimed he saw a giant crab when fishing on the 20th July this year.
Southrepps Commons Nature Reserve
There is a very special little nature reserve that not many visitors find when staying in North Norfolk. Lower Southrepps Commons Nature Reserve has been created and is maintained by volunteers. It is a wonderful habitat for a wide range of plants, birds, animals and insects. If you are interested in the natural world you will love it.
The proposed England Coast Path – have your say
Proposals have now been published by Natural England on the route of the England Coast Path. The section of coast between Weybourne and Sea Palling is where access is to be improved and new rights of way created.
Concerns over wild geese population
Pink-footed geese numbers are in decline.
Keen amateur photographer? Make some money from your hobby.
Marketing x Commitment2 = Exceptional
Have you heard of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams and David Bailey? Of course you have. But why have you heard of them? Do you think that Cartier-Bresson was the only competent photographer working in Paris in the twentieth century or that Ansel Adams was the only person photographing the Sierra Nevada? And David Bailey, why is he so famous and the dozens of other photographers working in London in the 1960’s aren’t? Why are these people so exceptional? The answer is that they had the required technical skills, their marketing was spot on and they had one hundred percent commitment.
If you intend to pursue a career as a self-employed photographer this article may be of some help to you. It won’t be easy and there will be bad days of course, but remember the equation above, sort out your marketing and give the job your all. Assuming that you are technically up to speed there is no reason at all why you should not make a good living or a useful second income from the craft that you love.
Cart Gap to Horsey on the forgotten coast
Continuing a journey from Happisburgh to Horsey along the Norfolk coast that took me through the rather strange settlement that is the Bush Estate. These structures, some ramshackle and others modern bungalows, are sheltered by the extensive line of sand dunes beneath which they nestle. They benefit from their close proximity to the beach – very pleasant in the summer months but when a nor-easterly gale is blowing I would imagine it is a bit like living in a settlement in Siberia.
Bacton to Happisburgh – off the tourist trail
If you like to relax on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and one of the broadsheets, you will undoubtedly have noticed the more regular appearance of articles relating to the north coast of Norfolk. The feature writers currently seem to be having a love affair with the area of the coast between Hunstanton and Cromer. This interest has been fuelled by the soaring price of the region’s property over recent years. Due to the growing demand for pretty Norfolk cottages as second homes, particularly during the 80s boom, this area has become increasingly fashionable with the rich and famous. In contrast, the coast from Cromer to Horsey is nowhere near as popular with those searching for a second home by the sea, and the holidaymakers visit in far fewer numbers, but that was not always the case.
Norfolk’s efficient Worzel Gummidge
Norfolk graduate student finds work as a human scarecrow.
Can a photograph be a work of art?
Can photography be called an art form?
I was prompted to write this article when I saw a photographer’s ad in which he described himself as a ‘camera artist’. Is photography an art form? This old chestnut has been around for a long time but is still creating lively debate. Some art critics would scoff at the proposal that photographers are artists but might well sing the praises of a particular photograph.
So the old debate ambles along in its many forms. Does monochrome photography have more artistic merit than full colour? Does the photographer have to print an image in a darkroom to qualify as an artist? (As far as I am aware Cartier-Bresson had all his prints made for him). What place does digital imagery have in the art world?