Cullercoats Bay, looking back from the harbour wall
With an hour to spare one morning in February, I took the opportunity for a quick walk around Cullercoats, winding around the top of the bay then down and onto the harbour wall. The ti...
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Whitburn Old Quarry
A short walk along the coast from Souter Lighthouse, the cliffs roll down to a small white-pebbled beach: Whitburn Old Quarry.My dad lived nearby for a couple of years and we used to walk the dog ...
Waking up...
Where have the past 4 months gone? In 2020 I took over 19,000 photographs; in 2021 it dipped a little to just under 15,000. As we near the halfway point of 2022, I’m at the 3,800 mark and on track ...
Wet and windy Whitley Bay
Photography has really taken a back seat for me over the last 6 months, simply through being too busy with other things. In the interests of getting this journal going again, here’s a quick photo f...
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...
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...