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Some highlights of the image-making year...
GIBRALTAR ROCK, TYNEMOUTH NEW LAUNCH -BREAKING NEWS
27th June 2025

GIBRALTAR ROCK Tynemouth new grand opening coming soon, landmark inn and restaurant with my images clothing the interior. Dates to follow....
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APPLEBY HORSE FAIR 2024
08th June 2024
Appleby Horse Fair 2024 a cornucopia of horses and gypsy/traveller culture.

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BALLERINAS in the Castle Keep
28th March 2022
Amazing fun with a team of ballerinas in Newcastle's Castle Keep, Charlotte, Sienna, Fiona, Cat.

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CALENDARS 2022 - RNLI, Tyne Trust,Port of Blyth, Children N.E.
02nd January 2022
Calendars were busy for 2022, shots in Tyne Trust,Port of Blyth, Children N.E. and I produced as usual the Cullercoats RNLI calendar for its ninth year, which sold out immediately.

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Northumberland Spring 2021
19th April 2021
"THE LADY OF THE NORTH", Northumberland country park land sculpture. The lady lies sleeping at midday in the Spring snowfall.

It reminded me of a poem by E Thomas:
I know it must be winter though I sleep,
I know it must be winter, for I dream
I dip my bare feet in the running stream,
And flowers are many, and the grass grows deep.
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RNLI CULLERCOATS 2021 Calendar
17th November 2020
RNLI CULLERCOATS 2021 calendar is here!
Our brave lifesaving volunteers continue their service despite the immense problems of Covid. Now more than ever we need your support to keep them open and afloat.


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TYNE RIVERS TRUST - Calendar 2021
17th November 2020
The Tyne Rivers Trust environmental charity does phenomenal work in improving and maintaining our rivers, their environment and wildlife. Including substantial work by volunteers. It deserves all the support we can muster. Here is its fundraising calendar for 2021.


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SUPPORTING THEATRE ARTS DURING COVID
17th August 2020
Link for supporting Theatre arts at Newcastle Tyne Theatre during Covid.
Please help us keep the Theatre going!

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LPOTY 2020 shortlisted
08th July 2020
LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR (shortlisted 2 categories 2020)

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PORT OF BLYTH CALENDAR 2020 -finalist
25th November 2019
Delighted to have two images selected by PORT OF BLYTH for their 2020 calendar
Large image:

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CULLERCOATS RNLI CALENDAR 2020
25th November 2019
This year's calendar on sale now. QUALITY A3 single sided so that you can use the images as prints thereafter. Please help us to save lives at sea....

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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE. September 2019
04th September 2019
LPM have published one of my images of Charley's Garden, Collywell Bay, Northumberland ...the one that was exhibited by The Sill, along Hadrian's Wall. You can see the writing and image here:-

https://landscapephotographymagazine.com/2019/charleys-garden-stack-collywell-bay-northumberland-england-by-norma-mckellar/
Exhibition DISCOVER OUR LAND, The Sill, Northumberland
03rd June 2019


My image "Dawn on Fire" as displayed in the summer exhibition held at the Sill, by Hadrian's wall, Northumberland. Taken at Collywell bay, Charley's Garden sea stack.The exhibition runs throughout June and part July 2019.
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Tyne movie slideshow of early shots
08th May 2019
a couple of very short archive videos I made for youtube with stills of the Tyne and Tynemouth to celebrate the river and its place in our culture.For video click or paste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVeBBxdzJ8w

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKnWd55wQBY

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MY FAIR LADY - Tyne Theatre dress rehearsal 9.4.2019
10th April 2019
The dress rehearsal 9 April 2019 for the production of the musical MY FAIR LADY was fun and a great shooting experience. Opening at the Tyne Theatre Newcastle upon Tyne on Wednesday 10 April 2019.


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RNLI, this time Newbiggin
19th November 2018
Shots during Newbiggin Northumberland RNLI Christmas fair:

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RNLI Cullercoats 2019 art calendar
31st October 2018
Quality A3 art calendar 2019 RNLI Cullercoats.
local scenes, action, on sale now ..please help us to save lives at sea...

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OLYMPUS - testing micro thirds in the Lake District
04th July 2018
I was recently invited by Olympus and Wilkinson's Cameras to join them alongside a landscape workshop run by Steve Gosling in the Lake District....to test out their new micro thirds OM-D E-M5 Mark II.
despite the rain we were able to run through a lot of its functionality, very impressed. See post for a brief rundown in review...

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