Images of the Month

The aim of this project is to take at least twelve passable images a year in the way of Tom Way. The rule is that the pictures must have been created in or around that time.

DECEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

Smoke on the Water. An abstract early morning scene to end the year.

NOVEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

During November I have been experimenting with collage. This is work in progress.

OCTOBER 2021 Image of the Month

I am reminded of the Robert Frost poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay:

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.

SEPTEMBER 2021 Image of the Month

Taken on a weather challenged trip to the Western Highlands of Scotland

AUGUST 2021 Image of the Month

Many people have been working at home during the pandemic, and there is anxiety about heading back to work

JULY 2021 Image of the Month

In July I visited the Lake District, the weather was unusual because it was brilliant sunshine, so no opportunity for typically moody shots. This however, captures a little bit of the magic of the place. Taken near Buttermere.

JUNE 2021 Image of the Month

At this time of year, I cannot resist a wildflower meadow. We need to fight to retain these wild spaces.

MAY 2021 Image of the Month

Bluebell Wood / John Gough / Canon EOS R

I have had it on my photography bucket list for sometime.

APRIL 2021 Image of the Month

The Last Post / John Gough / Canon EOS R5

Start of a project to demonstrate how the demise of local retailing caused in large part by the growth of online shopping and out of town retail, is decimating our town centres.

MARCH 2021 Image of the Month

Life in Lockdown / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Continuing my Life in Lockdown Project

FEBRUARY 2021 Image of the Month

I have started a Life in Lockdown project.

JANUARY 2021 Image of the Month

It has been on my photography bucket list to take a picture of falling snow, and this month I got the chance.

DECEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

Lockdown at Trinity College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

I took this image mid-December, but since then it all seems to have got even worse. This picture sums up the year to me.

NOVEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

Alice Through the Trees / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Is it lockdown that is inspiring this outpouring of impressionism? Are we a little bit cut off from reality, and living our lives in proxy?

OCTOBER 2020 Image of the Month

The Man in Black / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Developing the Pep Ventosa style a little further, based on the bandstand featured in July.

SEPTEMBER 2020 Image of the Month

A message in a bottle.

AUGUST 2020 Image of the Month

Newton’s Tree / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Newton’s Tree outside Trinity College, Cambridge. Grown from a cutting from the famous apple tree which was taken in 1954. Newton was a student at Trinity.

JULY 2020 Image of the Month

A Lady in Red on a Bandstand / John Gough / Canon EOS R

This is part of an ongoing Pep Ventosa project.

JUNE 2020 Image of the Month

In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow / John Gough / Canon EOS R

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
  The torch; be yours to hold it high.
  If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
      In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

MAY 2020 Image of the Month

Gradually emerging from a corona chrysalis to see poppies caught in the breeze.

APRIL 2020 Image of the Month

Lockdown lends itself to still life. There is a beauty in dead flowers.

MARCH 2020 Image of the Month

A Man in Venice / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Due to the restrictions caused by the coronavirus I am raiding the back catalogue!

FEBRUARY 2020 Image of the Month

St John’s College Cambridge / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The start of a project to capture ghostly images in historical settings.

JANUARY 2020 Image of the Month

Fell in love with Venice. So going back.

DECEMBER Image of the Month

It is the party season. Have a great New Year and see you in 2020.

NOVEMBER Image of the Month

A poignant image of a child in a bar in Walthamstow, London.

OCTOBER Image of the Month

A seasonal image created from my Autumn almanac

SEPTEMBER Image of the Month

Back to flowers this month, however much I try to leave them behind, they continue to invade my consciousness.

AUGUST Image of the Month

A street image snatched in Galway, Ireland.

JULY Image of the Month

Bubbles / John Gough / Canon EOS R

If I had a wall big enough I would like to blow this up and stick it on it. I think it would be quite therapeutic.

JUNE Image of the Month

Red Arrows / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The awesome Red Arrows perform at Shuttleworth, Bedfordshire

MAY Image of the Month

Kings College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

The magnificence of Kings College, Cambridge. The altarpiece is The Adoration of the Magi, a 1633-34 painting by Rubens

APRIL Image of the Month

Tulips at Trinity College / John Gough / Canon EOS R

Landscape and flowers, a lovely combination

MARCH Image of the Month

Gordons / John Gough / Canon 6D

The start of a series.

FEBRUARY Image of the Month

Body Wave / John Gough / Sony a6300

The juxtaposition of hair products and this character caught my eye.

JANUARY 2019 Image of the Month

Kings College Chapel / John Gough / Sony a6300

A tour guide stands in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, explaining its history and wonder. The painting in the background is Adoration of the Magi by Rubens