St. Mary’s Island panorama
Being so close by, I photograph St. Mary’s Island quite often—usually on quick trips with my kids—but changing tides and weather always offer up something a little different.Another black and white...
Journal
The home of the ‘Whitella’, and the Zeiss 45mm F2 Contax G-mount
I recently had to get my car checked out for a coolant issue so dropped it at a garage near the beach and went for a walk in the waning light to try out a couple of new (old) Zeiss Contax len...
My 2020 top 4
Looking back at last year and picking my 4 favourite images
Late October morning in Greenwich
As we roll into autumn proper, here’s an image taken in late October 2018 on a short stroll around Greenwich with my eldest, only a toddler at the time. I had only recently bought th...
Dune detail
Here’s a rather different kind of image for me.On my little trip to the coast last week I first went to Druridge Bay and—after spending some time atop one of the dunes at the edge of the beach, tak...
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...
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...