Well happy new year to you. My new year will be largely taken up with restocking after a bumper set of Christmas markets and starting to...

Finally deciding it was time to move on from my obsession with Holme Fell I tried a new area for the first time. Driving north alongside...

A circular high level route from Conistone in Wharfedale. Wharfedale View the route on plotaroute.com 9.5 miles 450 metres ascent A did...

Some considerable while back I read an article about Alfred Stieglitz. The photographs that were included were quite beautiful and I was...

These three shots are not new but I’ve revisited the processing for two of them. I wrote a few weeks ago about how I found how effective...

I talked a few posts ago about our perceptions of image sharpness. I illustrated that post with an example of extreme sharpness – showing...

By coincidence I exchanged comments a day or so ago with a reader from Helsinki who had posted a YouTube link showing his driving in...

I made this trip nearly three years ago but the shots have languished in the catalogue ever since, untouched and unloved. The day was far...

Grey Christmas We spent the Christmas week this year in Cumbria, in a rented cottage in a little village called Brigsteer. This is near...

Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf I was going to title this post “Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf” but that would look like I’d just dropped a book on the keyboard....

Route map on plotaroute.com Joy and I did a wonderful walk around Swaledale yesterday. Despite a less than good forecast it was perfect...

Shining Tor is the highest point in Cheshire. It has great views (on a clear day) across the Cheshire plain. This wasn’t such a clear day...

This portrait is of a tree in the small lake of Tarn Hows in the Lake District. It was a disappointing day otherwise. I was hoping for...

Some shots from a walk around the hills around Llangollen, North Wales, from early in December. #photography #omdem10 #landscape...

I’m starting to catch up on my backlog of unprocessed photographs. Here’s one I like, of a tree on the hillside above the Llangollen...

In my last post I wrote about a beautiful autumn day taking waterfall shots at Kisdon Force in Swaledale. The next morning was a...

The island of Anglesey is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, about 16 miles long and between 400m and 1100m wide....

April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...

Cheshire is mostly flat. I lived in hilly areas for twenty years so I’m having to recalibrate my photographic eye to get the best out of...

Two shots taken today at Alderley Edge, before I was driven off by the rain and sleet the forecast said wasn’t going to happen. #cheshire...