Moon over Cullercoats Harbour
A few weeks ago I was in Cullercoats and noticed the moon looking particularly large, hanging over the bay.I happened to have my Fuji X-Pro3 with the 23mm F2 ‘Fujicron’ lens with me in the car, so...
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High key high tide
In late April I took a punt on a cheap Asahi Pentax Takumar 35mm F3.5 lens on ebay. The first real opportunity I got to try it was a calm, sunny morning in early May when I had it mounted on my Fu...
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...
My top 4 photographs of 2021
Yes, this is over a year late...
Watching the tide, Cullercoats
There’s a famous quote in computer science from Phil Karlton: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” The naming part, I find, transfers ju...
Week notes #10: picking up the camera
Last week I mentioned finding a little spark of inspiration sitting in my garden and simply looking up at the sky. It turns out that was the spark I needed to get out with my camera for the f...
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...
Storm light at Cullercoats
A little while back I shared a photograph looking back at Cullercoats Bay after a rainstorm had passed. The fast-changing, high-contrast light that followed the rain was so fun to photograph and I...
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...