John Smith's Brewey...

The oldest of Tadcaster's three breweries...

 

MacDonalds...

Licensed today: waiting in line for a Big Mac...

Healaugh...

 The Norman church at Healaugh, yesterday...

Tadcaster...

 Today in Tadcaster...

Inspiration...

The secret of writing, according to Sinclair Lewis, Nora Roberts, Robert Benchley, Stephen King, Oliver Stone and other luminaries, is to “apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair”. Perspiration, then, rather than inspiration. If you wait for inspiration to strike, you can be waiting a long time (while intimating that the ability to string words together coherently is a ‘gift’ over which we have no control).

Licensed today: a point in Calderdale where road, rail, river and canal cross and recross, like the braided flex of an old-fashioned telephone. It's a good vantage point, though I'm sure I could get a better shot if I tried again...

Copy space...

In the cause of illustrating other people’s ideas, stock photos don’t alweays have to be tightly cropped. This shot, licensed today - of a fishing boat on the beach at Aldeburgh in Suffolk - has plenty of room on the left, known in publishing as ‘copy space’, where text can be superimposed… 

Unconditional love...

The promise of “unconditional love, seen here in Pocklington, is rather misleading. The love that Jesus has for us is entirely conditional on our obedience; for any lapse in behaviour we can expect eternal punishment. It is, in fact, our love for Jesus which is supposed to be unconditional… even though being forced to love the one we fear is the very essence of totalitarianism. Not much of a promise, then...