John Burke's a-Musings

Back in the 1970s and 1980s I took lots of photographs for magazine use and as many magazines stipulated that there should be some " hu...

The last few negatives to go through the scanner have been from 1974 and were taken on Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It's fascinating goi...

Monday 22 August 2005. A rainbow morning! As we set off from the hotel to walk into Sorrento to catch the boat to Positano on the other sid...

It was the 7th July 2008 and we had left the amphitheatre at Taormina and were walking slowly back into the town in the general direction of...

I suppose it was inevitable wasn't it? I mention finding a load of photography magazines from the 1980s and then get emails wanting to ...

A couple of people have expressed some surprise that my entry Leo's Lovelies about the French photographer from the 1920s featured a yo...

Whilst I'm in a postcard mood... This is No.139 of a series of postcards, photographed in France sometime around the 1920s. Now Leo ...

Ooh, an email flooded in from an old mate today, Billy, who asked, "Remember all those photos you used to take of gorgeous girls at the...