Pastel clouds
A year ago I wrote about a small photographic theme that had cropped up for me during lockdown, of photographing the changing light and cloud conditions out of my home office window. Since then, I...
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Monterey Bay sunrise
This glorious morning was the start of my final trip to San Francisco for Funding Circle—one abruptly ruined when I woke up the following morning with flu.Travelling to California every 2-3 months ...
Prior’s Haven
As the wind and rain whip outside my window, here is an image from a much calmer day in August last year.I was still spending lockdown mornings looking after the kids and with a hot summer, we spe...
West Wood, Harbottle
Time for another image from the archive, this time from a location scouting trip back in 2017.Having previously shared an image from this day—in Location scouting: Northumbrian textures—I’ve sat o...
Boysen Reservoir, WY
Way back in the summer of 2009, I went on a US road trip from Denver, up through Wyoming to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone and back down again. On the return leg from Yellowstone we stopped off a...
Upper Coquetdale in Autumn
One of my favourite places to walk and photograph in Northumberland is up in the Otterburn range. The area is mostly a military firing range although the public is able to enter when there's no mi...
Golden Gate sunset
For all my trips to San Francisco over the years, I have very few photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge, but I recently found some nice frames from a sunset boat tour I did in early 2014.Having bee...
My 2020 photography in numbers
Looking back at last year, which camera got used the most? Which lens?
iPhone surprise
Here’s a surprise of image I stumbled on while browsing my unprocessed selects in Lightroom. The image itself is not surprising. It’s not even particularly remarkable. It did catch my intere...
After the rain at Cullercoats
Believe it or not, I took this panorama while dialled in to a work meeting on Teams.Throughout this last year of lockdowns, I’ve been fortunate in a number of ways: first that my family and I are ...