For me, being in the mountains requires solitude to fully experience the landscape. Hoards of people tend to 'dumb down' an experience...

I've always had a fascination with mechanical objects. Back in the day my music was on cassettes and LP's, my watches had to be wound...

With this trip, I wanted to explore some local woodland, and take my camera along. These woods are only 20 minutes from home, so they...

My last photographic outing was under anything but ideal conditions of hazy midday sunshine so this time around, I headed to a familiar...

Whilst on holiday last week in the Yorkshire Dales, I was keen to take a photograph with my large format camera, but being close to...

This is the story of an image taken on a beach in North Wales. I was on holiday for a week near Caernarfon, and was close by this...

Yorkshire Dales National Park is situated roughly adjacent to the Lake District in the UK, but has a special and individual character....

This is a difficult task.  I’ve set myself the challenge of choosing 10 images from my collection, which mark out personal milestones in...

Photography shouldn’t always be easy.  We are spoiled these days with point and shoot compacts and phone cameras that are highly capable,...

I grew up with film as a photographic medium.  Back in the 80’s and 90’s, there wasn’t any other option, and film was just what you did....

Well, the answer isn’t 13.7 billion years ago – that’s a different topic entirely.  I’m talking about my interest in photography, and who...

There’s something special about the great outdoors in Autumn.  It’s even more memorable if you’ve captured a few images that really show...

As you have probably figured from my other posts, I like to combine camping with photography of wild places as it adds another dimension...

Snowdonia National Park is one of the most Beautiful places in the United Kingdom, if not the world, and it attracts a lot of visitors....

I recently attended a photo charter at Buckfastleigh to photograph a selection of Steam Locomotives at night.  The event was hosted by...

Mirrorless cameras, especially those with a focussing aid called ‘focus peaking’ are the perfect match for vintage manual focus lenses....

Birmingham is a great city for photography, especially the Jewellery Quarter.  The Quarter is packed with history, and contains some...

In 2014, I discovered the work of Tom Lowe, the director of a time lapse movie called Timescapes.  His work on this film inspired me to...

Being Forty-something, I kind of grew up with film.  It was all there was, and was normal.  The only choice you had was 24 or 36 shots...

Mirrorless is the latest buzzword in photography these days, but it’s terminology that most people don’t actually understand.  Most...