I genuinely don’t know where I’d be without it. Taking mediocre robin images in overcast light might be a fair response so let me put all joking and false modesty aside for a moment and regale you all with tales of how this picture really came to fruition.
I had been photographing these robins for several hours, days [...]
It never ceases to amaze and surprise me just how much the play of light can affect how we perceive things. On Sunday I awakened again to the delightful site of a landscape covered in snow, most pleasing because it was a completely unexpected surprise. As is the norm after heavy snowfall our village, which [...]
It never ceases to amaze, and occasionally worry me that time passes quite as quickly as it does. One minute I’m posting a blog on the WPOTY competition and then before I know it it is 10 days later and I am none the wiser. I’ve done a bit of photography, a bit of processing [...]
Apart from a trip to Belgium planned for late April, it looks like pretty much all of my photography this year will be done in Scotland, or at least, on this island off the west coast of Europe. The reasons why this is happening are suggested in a new column I’ve written for Outdoor Photography [...]
‘The harder I work, the luckier I am’ might sound like a flippant remark but it is a mantra that I have been gently reminded of recently. In the few months prior to Christmas I was floundering in a sea of processing and was only able to make it out with my camera on a [...]
Whilst I sympathise with all those people who have been adversely affected by this recent spell of cold weather (the history books tell me that this used to be called ‘winter’) it has for me been an absolute delight. In the 9 years that I have lived in Derbyshire we have, as I recall, enjoyed [...]
I can only apologise to my two fellow bloggers for having gone walkabout for the last 10 days and whilst I would love to have a suitable excuse it has simply been my own disorganised way of functioning that has caused my absence. Having travelled back to Mid Wales to visit family over Christmas I [...]
In the light of Niall’s recent post on the ‘Vivaldi-isation’ I have, due to its topical nature, brought forward a post from one such honeypot site, Gigrin farm in Mid Wales. For those of you with suspicious minds, no this is not a digital composite, nothing has been added and nothing taken away, what you [...]
The mountain hare is undoubtedly one of my favoutrite mammal subjects, both because of the environments in which they live but also how approachable they can be. This is one of the major motivations for me to revisit them this winter as the vast majority of my images, like the one above, are all a [...]
With winter fast approaching I am particularly looking forward to my annual trip to the Scottish mountains to revisit a couple of my favourite subjects, the ptarmigan and mountain hare. They are both subjects that I have covered well in the past but I never tire of working with them. Both require a substantial investment of time [...]