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Having just returned from a stay in York which was very enjoyable I’ve now begun the task of working through my files – over 2000 images in total covering Manchester , Newcastle , Scarborough as well as many studies of the city of York itself from dusk to dawn. Just thought I’d share this panoramic view I got of the South Bay of Scarborough […]

One of the things I recently read through were some excellent thoughts from Alex Mathers of Red Lemon Club on the pitfalls of being admired. Alex’s main point that You need to be indispensable to people to be successful as a creative is one I completely agree with. For quite a long time I’d lost confidence in my work and fell into the admiration trap […]

Last weekend I got to attend the launch of the Connected 2016 at Patchings Art Centre as an exhibitor alongside plenty of other very talented landscape photographers from across the United Kingdom. As part of this I helped with some documentation on behalf of the organisers Rob and Karen Knight from RK Photographic with the above images from the event. From top : 1/ […]

This delightful autumn landscape opened up in front of me last November at Gedling Country Park in Nottinghamshire . Was a very foggy morning to begin with , but slowly the sun managed to gradually burn through the mist , revealing more and more of the landscape ahead of me as the morning went on. When I made this image there was a small […]

Some takes of deer from Wollaton Park , Nottingham as the night closed in from  (February 2016) . The twilight atmosphere which came through upon editing really made these one of my favorite sets I’ve taken this year! It’s not often I get to look at wildlife but I was able to take advantage of a particularly good lens hire deal on the occasion. […]

A month ago I took advantage of a cut-price hire for an AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 G to try my hand at photographing wildlife (which I don’t seem to get round to doing terribly often!). Pitched up at Wollaton Park (twice , one afternoon – then the following morning with a friend) , and also Attenborough Nature Reserve during the weekend. Sadly the weather […]

Two guys followed by a woman and her young daughter walk along Bath Street , just outside Sneinton Market in Nottingham towards a square hosting street dancing as part of the Light Night celebrations in 2015. One of the more interesting images from the evening – and this was before it had begun. The sodium street lighting brings to life a gritty urban scene […]

Last Saturday sadly turned out to be the final day of trading for the Music Exchange – a well known and popular vinyl record shop in Nottingham ,run as a social enterprise with the help of volunteers from Framework.I happened to get a chance to take a look in the final afternoon just before it closed down for the last time. A great tribute […]

For the seven years I’ve been making photographs ,Nottingham’s Light Night has always been a significant date in my calendar – the art installations I saw on my first visit in 2010 really helped to spark my interest in the medium as I got to see what I could do with light. With this year’s event due tonight I’ve had a dig through my […]

A summary of my time aboard the London Eye during my 24-hour photowalk in Central London last June. [A link to previous parts of my writeup can be found here] As I’d mentioned in the last time – it was an insane rush to get to the London Eye pod which I’d prebooked with Advanced Photography Magazine , and made it with five minutes […]