Close to home
I live in a place where the scenery makes it almost impossible to take a bad photograph and so, I finally did some stern self-admonishing and made a deliberate effort to try and see the village differently and shoot nearer home. more
One day ~ Time in landscape photography
That morning provided me with over two hours of snap shooting interrupted by some instances of contemplation. As a result, a series of 15 photos taken in a silence only broken by the stir of a distant breeze. more
Photo Book Making
A handmade book can be a beautiful and tangible embodiment of the passion, love and enthusiasm we have for our landscapes and how we choose to present them more
Lichens
Lichens grow only very slowly, sometimes only a few millimetres in a year. Slow growth often implies longevity and lichens are among the oldest living things on the planet. more
Salinity
I saw the potential for revealing a chaotic harsh environment seemingly devoid of conventional photographic beauty in graphical terms. more
Cloudscapes
The huge fall in air travel since late March seems to have brought out cloudscapes which I’d either never noticed before or were hidden by the crisscrossing contrails. more
There are no Straight Lines in the Wilderness
Out here in this wild and barren place, was geometric evidence of man shaping the landscape, but with conventional photography, I couldn't get the photograph I wanted. more
Graveyard Bins
The bins and the contents were really just part of what I was trying to convey. It was the mechanisms of grief and ritual I was commenting on and their wider impact on our daily lives. more
The Highs and Lows of a Landscape Photographer
Do you remember Ciara and Dennis – how can you not?! Sod’s law would have it that I managed to coincide my trip with these two storms more
The Hill
It is a remarkable unremarkable place that plays an important part in my photography, though not necessarily in terms of actual photographs. more
Lockdown Project
A few weeks ago, during one of our lockdown podcasts, I challenged Joe Cornish and David Ward to take a few photographs as a 'mini lockdown project'. more
The Schist Village
The star of this story is a rock – schist – a hard, sometimes beautiful, rock that has greatly influenced the lives of the people who live on it and who exploit it to create fascinating buildings. more
In Rombalds Wake
Apart from the spa, Ilkley is famous for another thing: a little ditty entitled On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at – which is meant to be sung in Yorkshire dialect – and is translated to mean “on Ilkley Moor without a hat.” It was reputed to be composed during a Victorian church outing to the moors and is the unofficial anthem of Yorkshire. more
Autumn in Monochrome
The project became a good lesson and exercise in using limitations and constraints to produce a final series of images that felt cohesive, and with a unity of vision. more
Capturing The Essence
Niagara Falls is so much more than a huge waterfall. The Niagara River is a very large river connecting two of the Great Lakes. more