My first released portfolio of lockdown flower close-ups

During a very grey and largely wet Christmas week staying in the Lake District we did have one beautiful day which just happened to be...

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...

This is positively the last set of shots currently in my catalogue from Holme Fell. It was such a beautiful autumn afternoon that I...

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...

Langdale Pikes This was the first day’s shooting with my new Panasonic lens for my Olympus OMD-EM10 and I was excited by it. Also the...

Here are a few more shots from Holme Fell, the location I’ve been visiting so much recently. I’ve been asked to give a talk to a local...

I just found this post in my Drafts folder in WordPress and realised it had been there since early summer and never posted. I think I...

I’m still catching up processing the shots of Holme Fell I’ve been taking over the last few weeks. The autumn colour is now largely gone...

my new lens a couple of posts ago. One very useful side-effect is that it has a 52mm filter thread which just happens to be one of the...

In Holme Fell part one I wrote about finding this fantastic location between Ambleside and Coniston. Two days after that visit I went...

Lingmoor Fell and Bowfell I’ve been all around this area of the Lake District for many years and thought I knew it well but there is a...

My camera equipment is always on the leading edge of the technology curve – I’ve just bought a second hand Panasonic 14-45 mm zoom lens,...

Tarn Hows is one of the most beautiful lakes in an area renowned for beautiful lakes – the Lake District. In the Lake District there are...

Wow, it’s been about six weeks since I last posted. Holidays, laziness, and generally not actually getting any good pictures for a while...

Every thursday I go to the Museum of Science and Technology in Manchester to volunteer as a demonstator on the SSEM replica, also known...

Wensleydale Another trip around Wensleydale, this time through the meadows and fields at the bottom of the valley around the villages of...

A walk around the south side of Wensleydale. Gayle 9 miles 560 metres View the route on plotaroute.com This is a beautiful and varied...

OnLandscape magazine has had a series on neutral density graduated filters, with one part on colour accuracy. Tim Parkin, editor and...

I wrote last week about my overnight wild camp to Eskdale and the wonderful viewpoint of Border End. The evening before had been good but...