by alastair | Sep 29, 2018 | News, Peak District
I haven’t been able to get out with the sole intent of “doing” photography for a good six months (probably more). I needed to get out and decompress – and I think I achieved that on Friday. Sat up on Curbar Edge in the Peak District looking...
by alastair | Sep 28, 2018 | News
I’m speaking at “#Connected : Landscape Inspired”, up at The Water Wheel Inn in Liverton Village in Cleveland, on the 10th of November. My talk is called “If this is your land, where are your stories?”, taking inspiration from the book...
by alastair | Sep 9, 2018 | Lake District, News, North Wales, Northumberland, Outer Hebrides, Peak District, Scotland, Yorkshire
In my previous post, I discussed campervanning and in particular my first camper van “Diggy” the Mazda Bongo and “Vivi” the Vauxhall Vivaro, which came along last year to replace the aging and somewhat smaller (when your family is growing up) “Diggy”. Like the last...
by alastair | Aug 14, 2018 | News
As I’ve written elsewhere, I have had a desire to visit Abruzzo in Italy to do landscape photography since reading Michael Kenna’s “Abruzzo” book. The drive from Pompeii was surprisingly good, once we got clear of Naples. On rounding a bend...
by alastair | Aug 8, 2018 | News, Peak District
Despite living next door to the Peak District, it has been a good number of months since I was last able to be out in the Peaks taking photographs – the small matter of campervanning around Europe may have been a factor ? So it was good to get up early today...
by alastair | Aug 7, 2018 | News
After an afternoon of electrical storms, as evening came you could start to see the other villages with light glinting off the rain damp streets around the valley near Barrea in Abrruzo. Taken from the other end of the valley above the village of Barrea. Click on...