The Watch House, Rocky Island, Seaton Sluice
An 1880 volunteer lifeboat watch house, now run as a museum.The weather here today has been constant mizzle, later turning into full-on rain, but the general trend has been towards the warmer clim...
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A dusting of snow at the coast
A few snapshots from a 10-minute dash with the camera one morning
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 ...
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...
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...
Mediterranean tones
Here’s a bit of a change from recent programming: a photograph from outside the UK, taken 5 years ago in Cinque Terre on our honeymoon. After getting married in the April, we delayed o...
Beach time
After a week of heavy rain, we’re briefly back to bright sunshine here in the North East of England, so I thought I’d share an image from the previous heatwave at the end of May.I took the kids ove...
Window on the world
I have always taken the occasional photograph of interesting conditions outside my office window, but I’ve recently had both more time and more cause to observe the changes happening just beyond th...
Van Damme Beach light rays
I’ve shared photos from this view a couple of times before, but here’s a closer in view focusing more on those amazing light rays and long shadows through the morning mist at Van Damme Beach in Cal...
Druridge Bay
Back in July 2017, Radek Bajenski and I had a mad-dash 5-day trip to Northumberland to shoot last-minute brand photography for Funding Circle. One of our locations was Druridge Bay, a fantastic str...