Photography, poetry of all kinds, short short stories,and my new interest - photo-haiga (combining my photos with haiku,senryu and tanka) ~ all these interests of mine - plus my wife Jill's paintings - will feature here from time to time.
Geoff Sanderson was born in 1930 in Yorkshire, North of England. Following school he did a five-year engineering apprenticeship, during which time he took up bicycle touring and racing. It was during long-distance touring in the hill country that he acquired his love of the outdoors. Geoff changed career in 1951 when he joined the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training Instructor, was awarded a commission in 1963, and retired as a Flight Lieutenant admin officer in 1985. During these 34 adventurous years, Geoff married Jill in 1958, sailed and raced dinghies in Zimbabwe, Egypt and Singapore, and took up the sport of fencing. He became a qualified fencing instructor and official, was appointed RAF Team Captain, and was eventually awarded RAF and Combined Services Colours. Following retirement, Geoff ran the admin for Jill’s design/dressmaking business, and also worked helping a friend run an antiques business. Geoff and Jill have lived in North Yorkshire for almost 20 years now, within easy travelling distance of five National Parks, so spend much of their leisure time in hill-walking, photography, writing poetry, and painting.
Having just celebrated my 75th birthday yesterday, I thought that this would be a good day to start something new. My good friend Pris Campbell in Florida suggested that I start a blog, so here I am. I've been posting my poems, stories and photographs on the web for quite a while now, but don't yet know what style this blog will take, or how often I will be able to post new material. Stay tuned and see what happens.
posted by Geoff Sanderson | 4:53 am
This is me snapped whilst trekking on the Dorset coast, South of England, with my wife Jill in June 2003. Jill is an amateur artist who paints mainly landscape, and I'm interested mainly in landscape photography too, so we spend a good deal of our liesure time outdoors. Jill likes to settle down for long periods while she paints, so we carry enough gear in our packs to be self-sufficient for the whole day.
Most of my poems get written outdoors too, so my subjects tend to be pastoral in nature, sometimes wry comments on human nature, sometimes humorous. Over the coming months I plan to post my photographs, Jill's paintings, my poems and prose pieces, and accounts of anything interesting that crops up in our lives.
posted by Geoff Sanderson | 9:05 pm
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