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...
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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...
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...
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...