Essex Village Sketchbook

Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland was born in Essex, now that was one of the interesting historical conumdrums I came across while working on this project. Being an Essex based landscape photographer and having travelled throughout the county I have been amazed by the beauty and history associated with the Essex villages.

Therefore I was delighted to be commissioned in 2018 to produce a number photographs for a local public house, the theme being towns and villages of Essex.

While working on this commission it dawned on me that making photo sketches of these hamlets would be a perfect personal project which i could included on my website for oth­ ers to see.

With this in mind i researched numerous locations and over the next 2 year visited them on several occasions, all the imag­es included in this book were shot of either a Canon 5DSR or Fujifilm XT-3.

As the project came to an end in addition to including it in the project section of my website I thought that it would be a good idea to at least consolidate the work into a single document rather than just leave the images languishing on my hard-drive

As such i prepared a small Sketchbook in which I have tried to included small bite size snippets of historical information for each hamlet, includ­ ing where possible the derivation of the village or town name.

The above can be downloaded from here;