Glorious autumn at Simonside
Back in November, I had a chance to drive up to Simonside and had a fantastic day’s photography, capturing one of my favourite images of 2019 in the process.The colours in the woodland at Simonsid...
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Location scouting: lone tree
Driving home from a tiring day scouting locations in the Otterburn range last July I spotted a lone oak(?) tree across some farmland, picked out against a wheat field and framed on three sides by g...
Week notes #5
My last week notes post went out just as the lockdown began in the UK. The world’s a rather grim place at the moment, so without going into that I thought I’d simply share a few photographs on a th...
Tate Modern ‘street’ photography
Is there a name for street-style photography done indoors?I’ve written before about my regular trips to Tate Modern when I worked just over the river in London, both as a great people-watching loca...
Newquay
Here’s a quick one from a trip to Newquay in the summer of 2018. We rented a cottage for the weekend to celebrate a friend’s birthday and I took this photograph on a hazy evening wander with the gr...
Week notes #4
A rather counter-intuitive benefit of having to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a small up-tick in photographic opportunities as we take the chances we have to get out for some...
Stickle Ghyll redux
In late 2018 I spent a week in the Lake District and managed a couple of days photography, including a workshop with Nigel Danson. I recently went back to an unprocessed image from the workshop day...
Di Meo’s ice cream and the Whitella
The beach at Whitley Bay is just a short walk from our house. Down at the edge of the beach is this ice cream hut run by Di Meo’s, who have a pizza restaurant and ice cream shop on the parade nearb...
Spotting better portrait prints with a vertical monitor
This is something of a niche tip, but for those who have multi-monitor setups and like printing portrait-oriented photographs at least some of the time, read on…A computer setup tip I picked up fro...
Big waves at Whitley Bay
As Storm Ciara continues to howl outside my window I thought I’d share this image from just over a year ago, on New Year’s Day 2019.We had gone for a wander on the beach at Whitley Bay and I took a...