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Incidentally my birthday falls two days after Charlotte Brontë 's, so I feel I have a motive to celebrate my birthday. In fact, one could say I celebrate my birthday by celebrating Charlotte's. Last year I stayed for a couple of nights in Haworth (where the Brontës lived and wrote all their work) , and this year I treated myself to the same. In the morning I visited the village of Thornton for a first time, the Brontë sisters birthplace, which I will be blogging about in my next post, and then I headed to my favourite Haworth. I enjoyed the lovely feeling of no need to rush to go back to Leeds, so I took a leisurely stroll around the Parsonage and happily snapped away with my camera. It was a gorgeous spring late afternoon. I let the photos speak for themselves.

"I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and  kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one." Last year it was Charlotte Brontë 's 200th birthday anniversary, and I marked the day by my own personal tribute to her. This year I thought I'd share some of my favourite photos I took last year in the Bronte Parsonage Museum, the home of the literary Brontë Sisters since their early childhood, where new displays and installations were set up in celebration of Charlotte's special year. The dining room. The sisters wrote most of their stories, novels and poems at this table and also used to walk around it every evening reading and talking to each other about their writing plans. The table, one of the most important literary artefacts of the 19th century...

Last Saturday was a simply perfect early spring day, and I considered myself lucky to have a chance for a gentle stroll on the beloved Haworth moor. To make things even better I was with a good friend who was on the moor for a first time. I took pride in showing her my favourite landscape; the place where one day, before long hopefully, I will be walking every day. It was one of those utterly fulfilling days that keep you smiling for days afterwards... I had seen photos of these stone books partly buried in the ground on the moor, but it took me a while to get to know where exactly they were located. None of my walks happened to take me there, and even a couple of locals walking their dogs could not tell me where to go to find the books. Then, recently my friend from Haworth showed me the way. There are two sets of five books lying close to each other on one of the main paths of Penistone Hill. They are called "Literary Landscape Sculptures" and are created by artist Mar...

This post was in my drafts for a whole year, so I am very pleased that it has finally seen daylight. When I visited Saltaire in April last year I was very excited as I had not been there for about ten years. I was looking forward to seeing if and what changes had been made over the years, so I simply walked around some of the most popular places of interest. Saltaire is a fascinating, historic, model village near Bradford in West Yorkshire. It got its name from its founder, Titus Salt, and the river Aire which runs though the village. Salt was an industrialist involved in textile industry in the 19th century Bradford. Bradford was already polluted and overcrowded, and since its population still grew at the fastest rate in the country, Salt decided to move his business and employees to a rural area. He employed two local architects, Lockwood and Mawson, to plan a new community and design an entire village inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The project took twenty five years to compl...

Yesterday was a happy, very happy day in my life as I was notified by Trevillion Images about three new book covers, all very special to me. I took this photo in my dining room back in 2014. It is virtually completely an "as found" image with hardly any arrangement of the objects. What did take some time to achieve was finding a good angle of shooting. The fact that a photo of a scene from my home has been bought for a book cover makes my feel overjoyed. Needless to say, I am so grateful to the art buyer for this Swedish book cover. The book, "There is Always Forgiveness" in translation , is a general fiction novel by an acclaimed Swedish author, and is the fourth book in a hit series. A separate license has been bought for an audio version of the book, too. There could not have possibly been better news for me on the book cover sales front than my best selling image having sold in Croatia too! This image of mine was used for the original German edit...

I created this still life back in May last year. It was experimental work using a number of vintage/old world objects, inspired by my love for the literary Brontë sisters. At the time my heart was telling me I liked the finished image, but my head made me unsure about so many props in a frame. I left the image to rest and let time show which decision would prevail. A lot of images I end up uncertain about get deleted eventually, but this one has been continuously present in my mind and stuck out as something I had not shared yet. So here it is, and I am pleased it finally found its place on my blog (as well as Flickr and Facebook)