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Does sex matter? Landscape photography and the gender bias…

Does sex matter? Landscape photography and the gender...

Posted on 25th May, 2015

​I’ll hold my hand up. It’s a deliberately provocative title! Although my intention is only to provoke some good natured discussion and my interest is purely to find out just what do people think? It’s a well known fact there are far more male than female landscape...

For whom the bells toll - at what price, photographing bluebells?

For whom the bells toll - at what price, photographing...

Posted on 1st May, 2015

​My apologies for the slightly dubious title of this blog but, on those rare days when a little title gets into my head, there it stays! ;0) The subject of this blog is quite a serious one though. Yesterday evening I paid a little visit to some beautiful woodland between Leeds and...

Guest speaker at Connected 2015 exhibition at Patchings

Guest speaker at Connected 2015 exhibition at Patchings

Posted on 2nd April, 2015

​I’m delighted to be speaking at the launch of the Connected 2015 exhibition launch at Patchings Art Centre near Nottingham on Saturday 25th April. This annual exhibition has become increasingly popular with photographers from all over the country and the quality of work on...

A year on - cross country skiing with the Fuji X-E2 in Abisko

A year on - cross country skiing with the Fuji X-E2 in...

Posted on 25th March, 2015

​Last year I wrote about my experiences cross country skiing in Norway using a Fujifilm compact camera system - at that time I was using the X-E1 and X-M1. You can read the full article and see the pictures here. A year on, I again found myself enjoying a fabulous few days cross...

Bilbao photo blog part 2 - the best of the rest!

Bilbao photo blog part 2 - the best of the rest!

Posted on 20th January, 2015

​Following on from my photo blog last month - on the immaculate Guggenheim in Bilbao, here is my report on some of the other incredible architectural sights to be enjoyed in this amazing city. OK so we’re slightly encroaching on Guggenheim territory here, including the...

A photographic review of 2014: one month, one photo

A photographic review of 2014: one month, one photo

Posted on 1st January, 2015

Last year I decided to join the trend of doing a review of my favourite (best? most significant?) photographs. It seems the time has come again, so here are twelve of my favourite images from 2014. Ask me again in half an hour and I’ll probably give you a different twelve! Once again...

Bilbao: getting to know Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim

Bilbao: getting to know Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim

Posted on 23rd December, 2014

​Earlier this month, my husband and I spent a few days in Bilbao. It wasn’t a city that we knew very much about but it seemed the perfect fit for our criteria for a pre Christmas break - somewhere easy to get to (direct flight from Manchester), with plenty to see and do but...

Highly commended in Landscape Photographer of the Year...

Posted on 10th November, 2014

​Well it seems I’ve finally blotted my LPOTY copybook ;) and I’m happy to say my Reservoir Bogs image (below) was highly commended in the Your View category of the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. I found out on Friday but the email asked that I keep quiet until Monday...

Photographing trees: “What have you got?”...

Posted on 30th October, 2014

​You may have noticed I enjoy photographing trees! And, it being Autumn just now, it won’t surprise you to know that trees have very much been my focal point for the last few weeks. Of course I’m far from alone in this, and so it does rather surprise me just what confusion this...

Wood Week exhibition at the Joe Cornish Galleries

Posted on 14th October, 2014

​I’m delighted to be one of a number of photographers taking part in a new Wood Week exhibition at the Joe Cornish galleries in Northallerton. The photography side of the exhibition runs from Friday 17th October until Saturday 8th November. Bolehill Medley - cotton photo rag print in...

Yorkshire Dales Autumn workshop planning and recce

Posted on 22nd September, 2014

Earlier this month, I spent a very long and rewarding day in the Yorkshire Dales with Oliver Wright as we start to plan our joint landscape and nature photography workshops for this Autumn. First of all I have to say how wonderful it was to be back in the Dales for the first time since...

A walk in the Yorkshire Wolds, captured by the Fuji...

Posted on 8th September, 2014

​The Yorkshire Wolds have been on my ‘to do’ list for far too long. Anyone who visited the amazing David Hockney exhibition in London a few years ago will have an idea of what a special landscape it is. I’ve also often admired Paul Moon’s beautiful photos of the area. We used to...