Trainspotting
23 January 2016
Rail travel today undoubtedly lacks romance. From the architecture, to the rolling stock, to the sheer presence those magnificent trains had in the British landscape, the necessary evil that w...
Read More 2 Comments
Blog
Storm Clouds
24 November 2015
There’s nothing quite like the wildness of the Scottish Highlands in November, especially when there’s a bloody great storm or two hovering over it for the week. The Met Office can personalise...
Read MoreLancaster Lights
9 November 2015
I’ve neglected my home town of late photographically – familiarity breeds contempt and all that. But a couple of things came up in the last week that sent me rushing out with the camera gear t...
Read MoreThe Falkirk Wheel
20 October 2015
A trip to Falkirk had become something of a given each time I visited my Glasgow photographer friend, all so as to try and catch their showpiece boat lift as I imagined it - lit up and ho...
Read MoreRed Road Blow Down
11 October 2015
They were notorious during their fifty year dominance of the Glasgow skyline, and even at the end they remained controversial. Today's blow down of the remaining six Red Road towers was suppos...
Read MoreFerrybridge
13 August 2015
If there's one thing guaranteed to catch my eye it's a big chimney - there's usually something of interest at the bottom of them, and cooling towers are on a different level altogether. Belchi...
Read MoreThe View from the North
9 August 2015
Long before politicians on all sides were talking up a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ we already had one, manifesting itself in cotton mills, collieries and cooling towers across the Lancashire Yorkshi...
Read MoreVice Talking
19 July 2015
I was recently interviewed by one of the journalists at Vice on the subject of photographing the Chernobyl exclusion zone. My own take on the experience is well documented on this site but you...
Read MoreFort William
14 June 2015
I had in my mind a highland cow, looking majestic and beautifully lit in the June sunshine, and with that image fixed in my mind I set off with my Glasgow photographer friend Dave to try and c...
Read More