Low Hauxley Beach from above
In a rather shameful waste of a great piece of technology, I hadn’t flown my Mavic 2 Pro in over a year but finally put that right this week with an afternoon at Druridge Bay and Low Hauxley in Nor...
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Jumping into the storm
On a recent walk at Cullercoats with stormy seas, I watched the life guards practising in the big waves
Taking flight
A crow lifts off from the railing at Whitley Bay prom.Here’s an image from just a few days ago, taken on a morning wander along the prom at Whitley Bay after dropping our eldest off at school.We ge...
La Maison de la Forêt
After writing about my photo book purchases this year, the catalogue for Charlie Waite’s Hidden Works exhibition just arrived and a photo inside reminded me of this image from La Maison de la Forê...
2020: a year of photo books
I’ve bought a lot of photo books this year. Partly it’s my increasing interest in owning photography in print, whether as single prints or collections as books; partly it’s that a large number of p...
North Shields Fish Quay
A recent morning stroll around the fish quay at North Shields yielded this image of moored fishing boats, and the first image that I’ve personally shot that I feel suits Fujifilm’s new Classic Neg ...
Autumn at Knole
Here’s a scene I have wanted to share for a long time but have never been able to decide which of two versions is best. What I think that really tells me is that neither is quite right, but it’s ti...
Dartford Crossing from above
Browsing through my backlog of photos to publish this evening, I came across this image taken while coming in to land at City Airport in London a few years ago.I was on my way home from a visit to ...
Week notes #8
Maybe calling this thing ‘week notes’ was a bad idea…OK, so four months between week–notes articles is far from ideal. In my (feeble) defence, I have actually averaged just over an article per week...
St. Mary’s Island low tide
Back on the local coastal theme, here’s an image from St. Mary’s Island during a low tide last week. I need to let it settle, but at the moment I think it’s one of my favourite images this year and...