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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 […]

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 […]

You’ll have seen many yearly review posts by now , with it being the end of 2015  , so here’s my highlights reel from 2015 to follow: I’d say it’s been a relatively good year for me – in which I got myself back on track after finding things challenging in 2013 and 2014. Got to see some lovely things and good progress and […]

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the RSA’s annual Power To Create Conference held at Antenna , Nottingha Felt I’d got a lot out of attending the conference and listening to some  keynote speeches particularly at the start of the day – of particular interest to me was one discussing creativity/entrepreneuship and how educational systems don’t always do the […]

As the lead image suggests I’ve just got hold of my first stocks of the Nottingham Calendar 2016 – produced in partnership with The Calendar Company. Thus I am now able to reveal pricing and availability information for the calendar in this blog post! The calendar features many of my dawn-to dusk views of Nottingham featuring some lesser photographed parts of the great city […]

Here’s a set of visual highlights from the Sunday of the British Rowing Championships held at Holme Pierrepont , Nottinghamshire. On behalf of Row 2k magazine I was very fortunate to have the opportunity recently to cover this important sporting event featuring many well known athletes competing for Team GB , along with some up and coming athletes. Today I’d concentrated on moving around […]

Jack Goode, Alexander Turnbull , Rob Roy BC above Here’s a set of visual highlights from the Saturday of the British Rowing Championships held at Holme Pierrepont , Nottinghamshire. On behalf of Row 2k magazine I was very fortunate to have the opportunity recently to cover this important sporting event featuring many well known athletes competing for Team GB , along with some up […]

A short update to announce I’ve updated my showcase gallery-  this month will be devoted Goose Fair Special – featuring my work from one of the largest traveling fairs in Europe which happens to be very much on my doorstep in Nottingham. Adventures at Goose Fair Through my work I’m personally one big sucker for photographing night-time scenes – and I love the way […]