News and views, recept trips, forthcoming events, workshop reports and any other photography related articles.
Posted on 25th June, 2012
Our village's Open Gardens event was being promoted in the Yorkshire Post, featuring a beautifully landscaped, terraced garden with views towards the North York Moors. The article, written by a resident landscape gardener, focussed on their super collection of hostas. With the photograph...
Posted on 16th June, 2012
This is probably my favourite image from last year so I was very happy to see it had been chosen for the annual summer exhibition at the Joe Cornish galleries in Northallerton. Any image submitted has to be framed and this is an A2 sized print that normally hangs on the wall at home. Of...
Posted on 21st May, 2012
I first heard of Oxenber and Wharfe Woods a couple of years ago when training some clients on Lightroom and Photoshop. They described it as the best bluebell wood they had seen and I had every intention of visiting last year. For various reasons, that never happened and so the middle of May...
Posted on 25th April, 2012
I first photographed Mark's shop a couple of years ago and was delighted when he got back in touch with me this year, having expanded his business and taken on more space next door. Mark is extremely knowledgeable and offers an excellent range of pianos at very competitive prices. The shop...
Posted on 15th April, 2012
Outdoor Photography produce an annual guide to Britain's National Parks. This year, they went for something a little different, featuring one large image per national park and a mini guide to some of the best locations in the area, season by season. Quite a challenge to limit yourself to a...
Posted on 31st March, 2012
I'd been anticipating this trip for a while and it was all looking promising until the weather man started to mess with my plans. We had enjoyed a week of glorious sunshine but I wanted a few clouds and less of the haze that had accompanied the heatwave. Forecasts earlier in the week seemed...
Posted on 22nd March, 2012
We spent a super week cross country skiing in Norway last month - unlike our previous visit, to Rondane National Park a few years earlier, we were skiing off track and in a group. This definitely presented a challenge from a photographic point of view - there really is not an option to...
Posted on 17th February, 2012
On February 14th a group of peaceful protesters congregated outside Harrogate Borough Council's offices, hoping to make clear the strength of feeling against North Yorkshire County Council's proposed incinerator at Allerton Park. There followed a meeting of the Council's planning committee,...
Posted on 9th December, 2011
Living right in the middle of Yorkshire, the coast is quite a hike for me and, with the cost of fuel so astronomical, I don't get to the sea as often as I'd like. This was my first visit since the summer and I was hoping to explore the amazing formations on the sea shelf beyond Saltwick...
Posted on 23rd November, 2011
I recently visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery to see the Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven exhibition. Tackling the vast Canadian wilderness, this group of artists produced a stunning array of paintings, using colour, texture and light to great effect. Working in...
Posted on 15th February, 2011
My first visit to Egypt - a couple of days in Cairo, followed by an Aswan-Luxor cruise on a lovely small dahibiya for only 12 passengers. Having returned safely to the UK on 30th January, I feel incredibly lucky that we were able to complete our holiday and to come back to a country...