settle carlisle – Graeme Skinner

Work

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:44:21 +0000

A work based selfie for this months theme*

This is me working Garsdale Signalbox, though it’s rarely that sunny up there and my jumper isn’t quite that shade of blue, and my mustache isn’t that big (the brush slipped), other than that it’s fairly accurate

A3 Watercolour on board.

*Theme of the month over at john-howe.com

Up the Moor

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:11:00 +0000

I had to walk up past Ribblehead Viaduct this morning and noticed this old cabin on an embankment, so on my way back down (after my work was done ;-)) I stopped to snap a photograph. Not sure how long this platelayers cabin has stood derelict, but it must have been quite cosy in the middle of winter with the fire going.

Ribblehead Viaduct and a Bit of Water

Graeme Skinner — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:23:38 +0000

We had a run out today and paused for a wander by Ribblehead Viaduct; Victorian architecture on this scale is amazing, no computers, no huge powered cranes, yet they still managed to build a structure that is still going strong today.

On our way home I stopped to take a couple of photographs of a waterfall, well, it would have been wrong not to

Appleby at night

Graeme Skinner — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:48:19 +0000

A quick photograph of my office taken during a gap in traffic