News and views, recept trips, forthcoming events, workshop reports and any other photography related articles.
Posted on 5th September, 2014
Earlier this week I made my second trip of the summer down to London - this time a flying visit of less than 24 hours. Commuter, Kings Cross Station I had two reasons for going down. Firstly to attend the British Wildlife Photography Awards, having been delighted to find I had...
Posted on 25th August, 2014
Last weekend, Alex Hare and I were joined by a group of six lovely photographers for our North York Moors and Yorkshire Coast weekend workshop. We were based at the Old Manse Hotel in Pickering and arranged to meet everyone there at 12.00 on the Friday. Sleeping alien (AKA a fun tree!)...
Posted on 29th July, 2014
A quick peek out of the window at some ungodly hour assured me that the clouds had not lifted and so there was no ultra early start to visit the cliffs. By the time we got the 8.30am ferry back to Torshavn, there were certainly signs that the weather was beginning to relent, but too...
Posted on 26th July, 2014
We awoke to find our guess about a change in the weather was indeed correct. Very little visibility but still wonderfully atmospheric. Before leaving Gjogv, we wandered down to explore the village a little more. Faces and chains - the rock face of Gjogv harbour The harbour is in...
Posted on 26th July, 2014
Our fourth day here was also Rob’s 50th birthday and the reason for our holiday so it was, give or take, his choice of how we spent the day. We were both keen to explore the northern islands so then it was a case of seeing where we ended up. The northernmost settlement of Vidareidi with...
Posted on 24th July, 2014
Day two dawned a little grey and drab. We had a boat trip booked for the afternoon and decided to head off beforehand to Kirkjobur near Torshavn. The capital was much larger than we’d anticipated but we didn’t have time to stop on this occasion. Kirkjobour is home to a never...
Posted on 22nd July, 2014
Arriving at Stansted airport and discovering your flight has been delayed by at least six hours is perhaps not the ideal start to the day? It wasn’t… but we had our car with us and were able to escape and entertain ourselves for a few hours, rather than sit around going mad at the...
Posted on 7th July, 2014
Yorkshire had been building up to welcoming the Tour de France for a very long time and, when the weekend finally arrived, I think it would be fair to say the county did not disappoint! The weather gods were definitely on our side, but what an incredible job by all those who helped to...
Posted on 29th June, 2014
If I needed a reminder that I should find a little more time for cityscapes and architectural photography, then I certainly got that on my recent visit to London. I was down for a meeting to discuss a women in photography programme for the Photography Show next year and took the...
Posted on 9th June, 2014
Last year I made a few visits to a favourite patch of riverside woodland in the Washburn Valley - it’s one of those areas that always seems to provide a bit of inspiration and a place in which you can happily immerse yourself for hours. It’s reasonably local to me and somewhere I...
Posted on 11th May, 2014
I spent a wonderful week (with my husband) in Rondane National Park in March this year. Having visited five years earlier, we knew we had some spectacular scenery coming our way, although we were staying in another part of the park this time. The forecast looked promising and I was...
Posted on 16th April, 2014
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