The Secret Water Mill
Save 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 to...
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Category: Landscapes
Snowscenes
We 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...
Read MoreCooling Towers - A Lament
In 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...
Read MoreThe Pin Mill Wrecks
This 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 capturing...
Read MoreThe Cold War & the Milky Way
I'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 MoreRoyal Scot
I 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...
Read MoreDurham Heritage Coast
I find the sea to be a very calming thing in an otherwise increasingly jarring world, so when I travel about the country I'm usually not that far away from the waters' edge. The Durham...
Read MoreLong Exposures
As another year draws to a close I thought I'd talk about a few long exposure shots that I haven't posted up before. There's no great story to these so I've not written about them in depth but...
Read MoreLandscape photography around Fort William
I've just spent a week up in Fort William and did wonder if I could fill the time without covering too much of the ground I've already shot. As it turned out I was quite happy with the relaxing...
Read MoreAnglesey & Snowdonia
I had a few things in mind when I set off to Anglesey for four days earlier this month. You know the kind of thing, landscape photography, a trio of Welsh castles, an abandoned mining landscape...
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