Triple fret
Three days of sea fog and an awful pun
Tagged ‘beach’
The storm passes the bay
This has been a personal favourite image for a while now, but I had never published it here.On a gloomy October morning in 2020 I went for a walk along the beach at Whitley Bay to photograph the d...
Fret day at Cullercoats
In mid-June, as the temperatures rose, we got a few good fret days at the coast and on one of them I managed a wander with the camera.As you drive through Cullercoats coming from the north, the co...
Sunrise at Druridge Bay with the DJI Mini 3 Pro
At the very start of January I managed two good photography days in a row, including finally getting to fly my new DJI Mini 3 Pro drone.On New Year’s Day, we made a family trip up to the stunningl...
Overgrown boardwalk
There’s a lovely little footbridge crossing a small stream as it opens onto our local beach, where the council has planted reed beds and constructed a small boardwalk to run alongside and und...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...