Mark Bateman
Profile
I’m currently taking a sabbatical, after having worked too many hours over the last eight years or so. Photography is something I’ve very recently stumbled onto – and I have to say I really enjoy it!
I’m very much a newbie, and currently working on composition. Any comments very much appreciated – positive or negative.
I live outside Derby (midlands), UK – and am married to a wife I love dearly with two outstandingly gorgeous daughters.
Featured writing: Snapshot of a Dad
Groups
Mark Bateman is a member of ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), Abstract Art, Anything and Everything FUN, B&W - Character - People Shots, Black and White Photography, Childhood, Come Fly With Me!!, Falling Leaves, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Landscape Photography, Nikon D80 Users, Out of the Blue, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits, Seasonal 'Scapes, Short stories - Spherical Scriptings, Squirrels & Chipmunks, This is England, Twisted Tales and WMG.
Journal Entries
I'm still alive, and a feature!
Posted 4 months ago, 8 comments so far.
Track Santa!
Posted 6 months ago, 3 comments so far.
Hey I won the Lady_bug_ competition!
Posted 6 months ago, 17 comments so far.
Musings - Right, wrong, guilt and rainbows
Posted 7 months ago, 18 comments so far.
Autumn! featured on Falling Leaves
Posted 7 months ago, 4 comments so far.
Before and after images
Posted 8 months ago, 4 comments so far.
What would your homepage be?
Posted 8 months ago, 6 comments so far.
First Writing Featured!
Posted 8 months ago, 10 comments so far.
Can I Have An Ice-Cream featured on Squirrels group!
Posted 10 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Autumn! featured on Seasonal Scapes
Posted 10 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Art
Writing
Unwanted Fame
As the baby moved and gurgled the mother was overcome with joy. She stroked his skin whilst taking in his colour and radiance. She smelled his skin and dissolved into a heap of tears. Watching her bro…
Youth of Today
Groups of adolescents hung back watching the mass moving in syncopated unison. Girls portraying an air of processed sophistication, lorry tyres for eyes and stretched glass for hair. Boys filled with …
And The Band Played On
His eyes danced over the words and he couldn’t help shaking. He cried for his wife to come quickly. Shocked she sat in the nearest chair. Would this mean they were safe? The letter contained …
Will The RB Gang Surive?
There’d been a few mishaps. Well, that was an understatement. Major traumas the size of Australia sinking into the sea was how The Doll had described it. The Prince had expressed much the same senti…
Dead To The World
As I watched him he was barely moving. Much in the same way as some poor person who has been in a horrific accident conserves every ounce of energy just to stay alive. So it was with this little chap.…
Snap
‘You know,’ whispered the older man with his German accent, ‘I enjoyed our latest challenge.’ They were sat in a coffee shop just off the high street. Anyone who had seen them would presume…
