Articles Published

As well as photography, I have a history of writing articles for a wide variety of magazines. This ranged from computer programming to smallholding to nature and the environment. The magazines I worked for ranged from a US based internationally distributed computing magazine through to local community magazines. Below I go into more detail. Note that the links will either download a PDF file or show a jpg photo of the document.

Note that I can be commissioned to write articles based on photography and associated topics.

Stone and Eccleshall Gazette: This is a free local, bi-monthly, magazine carrying mostly news and general interest items of the locality. I have created articles consisting mostly of photographs taken in the area. I had several articles published with some held over due to space constraints.

Here are the published items:Here are the published items:

September 2024 – Green Spaces and Reserves: This article shows some of the green spaces in nearby Stoke-on-Trent here.

July 2024 – Spring flowers and blossom in Stone: The title says it all! You can see the article here.

March 2024 – Stone Winter Views: Various views of Stone in winter were presented in this article which you can read about here.

November 2023: This article was written to show some of the distant landscapes visible from Stone or the surrounding areas. You can read a PDF scan of the whole article here (this will download the file)

September 2023: This article is to show the beauty of autumn in the locality, some of which people may not be aware of (the editor admitted that there were 2 places I mentioned that he was unaware of). You can read a PDF scan of the whole article here (this will download the file)

Royal Photographic Society (RPS): I have just had my first article published after joining the RPS earlier in 2023. This article describes my experience using Audio Visual (AV) in my role as a photography volunteer. This was published in the magazine of the AV special interest group. You can read a PDF scan of the article here (this will download the file).

Harrowing Times: A small community magazine for the Norfolk Smallholder Training Group. As a smallholder then living in Norfolk I joined this group and during my time with them I wrote a few articles including: Fungi Foray. Other articles included: ‘A Pig Shelter for Nowt.’ and ‘Denton Black Hand Cyder Pressing Day’.

The Countryman: I have had one article published in this magazine in March 2007. This was about artisan made ‘Natural Chairs‘.

Period Living: A simple back page article about our smallholding in Wales.

Smallholding: Most of my writing was for the magazine Smallholder. These articles covered a range of topics and included my own photographs and illustrations. Here are a few examples:

In addition, I have had a couple of my photos used for the cover page of the other smallholding magazine, Country Smallholding.

Computer programming: I started writing for a US based (and internationally distributed) magazine then called iSeries News that specialised in IBM ‘mid-range’ technology known then as the IBM iSeries. IBM has gone through a number of name changes and the magazine has changed its name to follow but this was the name at the time. I first started writing for this magazine in 2003 and continued to 2006 when I left the industry. In this time I also wrote their first blog.

Writing for this magazine required that the articles should be of interest to the experienced programmer, but also appeal to, and inform, the beginner. With the number of articles I had published in this magazine I feel that I succeeded in this aim. Here is a partial list of articles published (These are somewhat technical in nature):

There was also a UK version of the magazine iSeries News UK, mostly less technical that carried several of my articles – this is an example from January 2004: Double Entry Stock Keeping