Storm light at Cullercoats
A little while back I shared a photograph looking back at Cullercoats Bay after a rainstorm had passed. The fast-changing, high-contrast light that followed the rain was so fun to photograph and I...
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Druridge fret
At the end of May and start of June this year, a persistent sea fret (or haar—coastal fog) arrived and sat on the Northumberland coast for a few days. We took a trip up the coast to Bamburgh Castl...
Monochrome rainbow
I held off moving this photo into my ‘Processed’ collection in Lightroom for years. Each time I reconfirmed to myself that I liked it, some nagging voice in the back of my mind would point out that...
A brief return of the sun
A pattern I always used to notice as a child was that the weather always seemed to perk up for a week or two as the new school year started in September. It meant we could play football in th...
Winter sunrise at St. Mary’s Island
Arriving at St. Mary’s Island one morning in February, I was just in time to catch the wonderful orange glow of a winter sunrise on the partially snow-covered landscape.As I wrote at the time, it ...
Gondola
The first trip abroad my wife and I took together was a long November weekend in Venice while we were still dating. We were astonishingly lucky with the weather: floods just before and after our vi...
Coal dust
A recent issue of Outdoor Photography magazine included a competition on the theme ‘patterns in nature’ which had me doing a quick scroll through my Lightroom library to see what I had. While I nev...
Riomaggiore on film
For our honeymoon, my wife and I went on a road trip through Italy including a couple of nights in Cinque Terre. I managed to lug my Mamiya 645AFD medium format film camera with me and, on this bea...
A walk in the woods
Back in October on a long day’s photography in Northumberland I made a very short stop at Thrunton Wood, initially intending to explore before deciding I was too tired for another hike and heading ...
Golden autumn walk at Knole
When I lived in London, the short 40 minute drive out to Knole deer park was one of my favourite escapes from the city with its woodland, open areas and of course, deer. For this November morning I...