The Nifty Fifty Project
I've just started a new project called the "Plastic Fantastic", using a cheap and cheerful Canon 50mm plastic lens. The aim/challenge of the project is to use just one lens, and a shallow depth of field. Its a different approach for me as I usually shoot for a...
Wyming Brook, Sheffield
The Wyming Brook and the small valley that contains it is like a Padley Gorge in miniature. Running down to the Rivelin Reservoirs within the City of Sheffield, the Brook runs its course through a nature reserve of mixed trees, offering a diverse place for...
White Fern, Eskdale, Western Lakes
It has been a while since I've written anything "substantial" on here. Redundancy and a new challenging (in a good way!) day job have had their part to play, but so has getting ready to speak at the recent On Landscape Conference up in the Lake District. I might...
Onlandscape Conference 2016
The second Onlandscape Conference : A Meeting of Minds takes place on the 18-20 November at the Rheged Centre near Penrith. I'm doing a short lunch time talk about my "Ties to the Land" pinhole photography project on the Saturday. Please do come over and say "Hello"...
Kepple Crag, Birch and Mountain Ash, Eskdale
Eskdale and more generally the Western Lake District is a bit like the "Undiscovered Country" . They are very much in the Lake District, but given the drive to get there - either circumnavigating around the edge of the Lake District or going up and over the top via...
Curbar Edge at Dawn
With the BBC Weather forecast suggesting a drop in temperature for Baslow over night with the added bonus of clear skies and 2 knots of wind, the game was a foot for some misty Derwent Valley-ness from Curbar Edge. Despite the sun not rising until 0715 at this time...
Green Padley Gorge, Peak District
I took the opportunity to head out in to a misty Peak District at the start of this week. I started up on the beautiful Curbar Edge, with mist filling the Derwent Valley below and sky to the East looking like it was on fire with the oranges that were in the clouds...
Carl Wark and Fox House from Higger Tor
Despite the sun not rising until 0700 and only living 20 or so minutes away from Higger Tor, I still felt obliged to get up at 0500 much to my wife's chagrin. This meant that I arrived in the dark at Higger Tor and made my way up to my favourite spot in that...
Over Owler Tor, Peak District
The Surprise View, Millstone Edge, Over Owler Tor, Bolehill area is perhaps one of the most accessible photography locations that you could wish for living in Sheffield. However, it is probably overlooked in favour of Padley Gorge which is in the same area. Within...
Bolehill, Mist and the Peak District
You can probably get no bigger cliche at the start of Autumn than to have mist and the silver birches of Bolehill Quarry, just below Surprise View, in the same shot. That is what some may think, those that think they are above such simple pleasures as spending time...
Stanton Moor, Peak District
At the weekend we (family and friends Tim and Charlotte and Anna) paid a visit to Stanton Moor in the Peak District, a small Mecca of neolithic burial mounds and stone circles. But we didn't go for the history, we went there for the heather and the colour. Stanton...
The Far Away Shore, Lingerbay, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides
Trying to capture a sense of desolation and isolation I took this long exposure photograph looking across Lingerbay. Lingerbay lies on the east coast of the Isle of Harris, just off the Golden Road (so called because of the alleged cost of building it) some 12 or so...
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