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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Folkestone Harbour
Happy memories from a disaster holiday.With our kids reaching an age where they could both appreciate it, we had booked our first family trip to Disneyland Paris. As we landed in Paris however, ou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...