The Digital Camera World January 2019 magazine features '10 Steps to Animal Magic' as its front page main feature.It seems like a good enough article promising 'techniques, tips and strategies for making magical animal captures'.The 10 steps begin with...
Ffordes Photographic of Beauly, near Inverness, Scotland was broken into in the early hours of 26th September and a substantial amount of Leica equipment, digital and film cameras, lenses and accessories, was stolen. The Police Incident Number is NN10337/18 and the...
For the first time in its 35 year history the Isle of Skye Half Marathon benefitted from full road closures, so the runners were not having to battle against traffic as well as the clock. Cameron Milne was the winner with a record time of 1 hour, 9...
It was a fairly late decision to attend The Photography Show at the Birmingham NEC this year, mostly due to it now being a 1100 mile round trip. While some of my friends who live around 100 miles from the NEC failed to make it due to snow, we had a...
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017 Benjamin Graham - Diminutive Dune, West Wittering, West Sussex, England Landscape Photographer of the Year : Collection 11 book is now available featuring all the winning and commended images from the 2017...
The Landscape Photographer of the Year: 10 Year Special Edition book is out today (28th April 2017) and includes my commended image of Sturminster Newton Watermill (on page 98) from the 2013 competition. Featuring more than 250 beautiful images from a hugely...
I’m pleased that my image of Duddo Stone Circle has been used in Long Valley Books’ new publication ‘The Photographer’s Guide to Northumberland’. Author Ellen Bowness has produced an excellent little illustrated book that is split into the following sections: The...
The British Firework Championships took place once again at Plymouth in Devon with 6 companies from across the UK taking part. Launching from Mount Batten Breakwater the pyrotechnics made a spectacular sight over Plymouth Sound and Drake's Island with a...
I have been watching a pair of Great Tits (Parus major) feeding voraciously on the garden bird nut feeder for a few days and today these little chaps appeared, presumably having just fledged from their nest. All images made with a FujiFilm X-Pro2 & 1986 Tamron...
Easter Sunday saw the 10th Bristol VR revival and vintage bus running day based at Penzance Bus Station with vintage bus services running from 10.00 until 17.00. Routes included Penzance to Camborne, St Ives, St Just, Hayle, Marazion/Perranuthnoe, Praa Sands,...
I have just returned from a couple of days at the 4th edition of the Photography Show held at Birmingham’s NEC. All the big names in the business were present with huge stands from Canon (celebrating 30 years of the EOS range), Nikon, FujiFilm, Olympus, Panasonic,...
It was ‘Snowdrop Sunday’ at Pencarrow House in Cornwall with large carpets and smaller dense pockets of common snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) in the landscaped gardens and woodland walks. I used an original Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens and a ‘EOS to FX’...
January 7th was the final night of this year’s Christmas and New Year Harbour Lights at Mousehole near Penzance in Cornwall. The 53rd year of the Mousehole Harbour Lights has seen the harbour and surrounding streets and hills lit since the 18th December with a...
The Bodmin & Wenford Railway’s annual Winter Steam Up was held on the 31st December with three locomotives in steam, GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank No. 6435, GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank No. 4612 and 100 year old GWR 2-8-0 Tank No. 4247. Video Player 00:00 00:50 GWR...
Wreckers Border Morris Boxing Day Dance 2016 in Cawsand Square, Cornwall. Wreckers Border Morris Boxing Day Dance in Cawsand Square, Cornwall. (FujiFilm X-T1 Graphite, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR) Wreckers Border Morris Boxing Day Dance in Cawsand...
This week’s Amateur Photographer magazine (27th August) has published my letter in response to Jeremy Walker’s Portland Bill location guide (AP 13th August). The letter is shown above but in summary I wrote about the ever-changing landscape due to erosion and the...
The first BBC Countryfile Live has just taken place at Blenheim Palace near Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Traffic chaos plagued the opening day, it didn’t help having the Wilderness Festival just a few miles up the road at Cornbury Park on at the same time, with many...
Fog, mist, rain, Cornish mizzle, drizzle and dense low cloud, the 2016 RNAS Culdrose Air Day had it all. Unfortunately due to the bad weather it lacked a flying display leaving the thousands of visitors who had braved the conditions disappointed....
A large steam gala was recently held on the West Somerset Railway to mark the 50th anniversary of the closure of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway. The ‘S&D’ railway ran from Bath Green Park to Bournemouth West with traffic peaking in the early 1960s...
My image ‘New Year’s Day’ taken at Hartland Quay is currently on display at Barnstaple Museum’s ‘North Devon in Photographs’ exhibition. The exhibition showcases selected entries from the North Devon Heritage Photographic Competition and runs until the 9th January...
10 years on……. November 25th, the date in 2001 when Richard Burns (and co-driver Robert Reid) won the World Rally Championship but also the date that he succumbed to a brain tumour in 2005 aged just 34. I was honoured to work with the Richard Burns Foundation that...
You don’t need Doctor Who’s Tardis to go back to Wednesday 22nd November 1995, the day that Colin McRae (and co-driver Derek Ringer) became Britain’s first World Rally Champions after an epic trouncing of Subaru teammates Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya from Spain. I...
I have recently run a few 1 to 1 workshops at the various waterfalls in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The first of these concentrated on the last of the autumn colour before most of the trees were stripped bare by high winds and heavy rainfall. Huge deafening...
I had the chance to try Canon’s new EOS 5DS and 5DS R 50.6 megapixel monsters at a recent Canon Professional Services day in the New Forest. Although I am now a confirmed FujiFilm X series shooter I was very keen to see how the latest Canons performed having...
September has been a busy month for landscape photography workshops, both of the group and individual one to one varieties. Locations have included East Cornwall, most of Devon and Dorset, Hampshire’s Test Valley and the New Forest. We even managed an hour at the...
Southwell Minster Cathedral is the stunning setting for the fourth ‘Masters of Vision’ landscape photography exhibition. Curated by local photographer Dr. Pete Bridgwood, ‘Masters of Vision’ (MOVE) 2015 features Pete’s own work as well as six others; Valda Bailey,...
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team ‘The Red Arrows’ were due to display over Queen Mary 2 in Southampton Docks as part of Cunard Lines 175th anniversary. Sadly the display had to be cancelled due to bad weather, firstly at Bournemouth Hurn Airport where the Red...
I recently wrote a piece for the 7dayshop blog about iPhone photography. As well as a variety of images there is information about how I use the iPhone camera, useful apps to process images and also the importance of remembering that the phone could be your...
I have run a few bluebell photography tuition workshops this week in beech tree woodlands in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. In these classic English woods the native bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) still rules the roost over the invasive Spanish...
A bit late due to a couple of workshops on the Dorset Coast and in Devon but last Saturday I went to the 10th ‘Pride of Longbridge’ Now organised by the Pride of Longbridge Heritage and Community Group this annual event is held in recognition not only of the cars...
Although I’m a huge fan of Lee Filters’ 10 stop neutral density filter, the ‘Big Stopper’, there are occasions when 10 stops simply isn’t enough. Formatt-Hitech now market 13 and 16 stop versions of their Firecrest ND filters but I thought I would seek a more...
Here is a small selection of interesting doors from my recent trip to Northumberland, Berwickshire and North Yorkshire. No MDF, sapele, uPVC or bi-folds here, just solid wood with weathered paint, rusty shackles and loads of character. St. Abbs Harbour,...
Having photographed motorsport professionally for over 15 years with various Canon film and digital SLR cameras I was keen to try the Fujifilm X-T1 for rally photography and ventured deep into Wales last weekend for the Red Kite Stages. My ‘standard’ lens for...
A superb day out at the Bonhams London to Brighton Veteran Car Run including a 4am start and breakfast with Paul Hollywood at the Lancaster Hotel. First run in 1896, the 2014 ‘London to Brighton’ featured around 500 pre-1905 vehicles, the first leaving Hyde Park in...
Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend the Canon CPS+ Landscape Day in the New Forest with David Noton and Jonathan Gooding. David gave two illustrated talks, the first featured a selection of his images from around the world and this was followed by an in...
A very busy day yesterday that started with a short interview on BBC Radio Solent (Dorset) with Steve Harris talking about the launch of the Landscape Photographer of the Year Exhibition at Moors Valley Country Park. In the evening I gave an illustrated talk at...
My commended image of Sturminster Newton Mill on the River Stour in Dorset is now available in the Take A View Landscape Photographer of the Year greetings card range from Camden Graphics. Sturminster Newton Mill, River Stour, Dorset. Landscape Photographer of the...
The Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire was the venue for today’s Rover 75 & MG ZT Owners Club 16th National Meet. There was a record turn out of 139 cars with the highlight being the dealer launch vehicle #1 allowed out of the museum to celebrate...
Pleased that my image of Bratley View has been used as a double page spread in BBC Countryfile March 2014 issue.
The National Theatre on London’s South Bank hosted the awards and private view for this year’s Landscape Photographer of the Year organised by Take A View. Charlie Waite led the proceedings with his actor friend David Schofield presenting the overall winner Tony...
Ten years ago today the supersonic airliner Concorde made its final commercial flight when G-BOAG on flight BA002 from New York landed on runway 27 right at Heathrow with Captain Mike Bannister at the helm. I had parked my car in the nearby village of Stanwell and...
My image of Sturminster Newton Mill made it onto the Daily Telegraph website today. Click here or on the photo below to...
I’m pleased to announce that my image of Sturminster Newton Watermill has been Commended by the judges in the Landscape Photographer of The Year 2013 competition and won a place in the Awards book. In addition, it features in the Moors Valley Country Park...
Self-portrait at Claerwen Dam, the largest in the Elan Valley at 184 feet high by 1167 feet long.