The Drowned Village of Mardale
For as long as I can remember there's been one question that eventually drifts in to mind whenever there's been an unusually dry summer: I wonder if Mardale has reappeared? I was only a sma...
Read MoreANDREW GIBSON
For as long as I can remember there's been one question that eventually drifts in to mind whenever there's been an unusually dry summer: I wonder if Mardale has reappeared? I was only a sma...
Read More"I'll watch that later" wrote Kate in the group chat, "we're just off to see the Flying Scotsman". Those were the words that sent me on an impromptu trip out to Blea Moor to see something I've...
Read MoreBack in 2013 I spent a short week along the north-east coast covering the area between the Forth estuary in Edinburgh and the Humber estuary in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In the intervening...
Read MoreSave for a day out at the start of May that threw up a surprise capping of snow on the mountains, I've not been to the Lake District for a while. Well, there's been a pandemic that put paid t...
Read MoreWe don't really get much proper snow in north Lancashire. I don't think we ever have really, though I have memories as a small child in the early 80s of a thick coating in the Blackpool subur...
Read MoreIn the not too distant past of the mid-to-late twentieth century you probably knew where you were going and navigated your way towards it with a map and a bit of local knowledge, using indust...
Read MoreThis is one of those places you see on other photographers' feeds and think "wow, I really want to visit there" - but unless you really know your stuff you won't know what goes in to capturin...
Read MoreI've wanted to try some Milky Way photography for a while now and never quite managed to line up the right conditions with my own availability, or indeed found a 'subject' to sit in the frame...
Read MoreI do like a steam train, and the frenetic challenge of photographing them is completely at odds with the peaceful and considered landscape photography I normally indulge in. Google seems to k...
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