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 [...]
Another week and I’m still scratching around in the ‘cold spell’ drawer, this time it is a friendly neighbourhood song thrush (with a limp!), that dropped in for a bit of free food. My excuse however for this barely topical image is that I have just returned from a lovely, if all too brief, trip [...]
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 [...]
Not unexpectedly, snow is on the minds (as well as the lawns and drives) of many. Unlike Niall and Andy I cannot write with the niveous stuff around me for inspiration. It is promised: we wait with clouds already that ‘dirty’ grey, what my grandmother called ’full of snow’
Here, at 450m above sea level, [...]
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 [...]
Over the last few days I had an agency submission deadline that I was keen to meet but having been woefully unproductive recently I was forced to have a rummage around in some of my unprocessed files. It is something that I rarely get the opportunity to do but every now and again I stumble [...]
Just a quick one today to mention that my website www.andrewparkinson.com is finally live. A full search facility will arrrive shortly so at the moment it is mainly just a showcase of my UK material though I have put one overseas gallery on with others following shortly (if you believe that you’ll believe anything!) It is of [...]