Shimmering indigo, green, crimson and blue, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis to give them their real name, are one of nature’s most spectacular sights and a dream for many photographers. Last night I finally got to see this amazing dance of light and to make it even better it was visible in Whitley Bay,…
Telegraph Motoring – Front Cover
Following last months trip to Spain for the Daily Telegraph and Seat UK, the first of a series of pieces in the Motoring section was published yesterday, in the lead up to the Outdoors Show. This was undoubtedly one of my favourite shots from the trip so I was delighted to see they had used…
Atherton Crowned BT Action Woman of the Year
Rachel Atherton has been crowned the first-ever winner of BT’s Action Woman of the Year Awards. The new Action Women Awards celebrate women who gave the most dynamic sporting performance during 2013. The winner was decided by online public vote from a shortlist. 2013 was already an incredible year for Rachel Atherton, she became the women’s downhill mountain…
Introducing: Like The Wind Magazine
I love too read, books, magazines, blogs, more magazines, postcards, letters, everything. Most of my inspiration to get out and do stuff comes from reading, well reading and looking at amazing photographs. And maybe watching a few good videos on Vimeo. But mostly it comes from reading. So when a few months ago I was…
Ironman Wales
I made the long trip from the North East to Pembrokeshire in the South-west of Wales to photograph Ironman Wales. The Ironman is a triathlon race organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.86 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.25 km) bike ride and a marathon 26.2-mile (42.2 km) run, raced without a…
Dinorwic Slate Quarry
Early this week I was in North Wales. Mostly running in the mountains in preparation for the Montane Lakeland 50 which I’m running in July. But whilst I was there I took some time out to give my legs a rest and visited the Slate quarry’s. A strange deserted desolate place… If you want to…
The snow is back
The cold weather reappeared in North Yorkshire yesterday, bringing snow, strong winds and high seas.
Kendal Mountain Festival – Idents
Last week I was recruited (bribed and threatened) to act as an Action Sports Model for Fridge Productions, who were working on a series of Idents (film shorts) for the Kendal Mountain Festival this coming weekend. I regularly work with Fridge, and they are good guys to work with, so I happily agreed. We were…
Playing with dolphins…
September saw me on an epic journey to Portugal to spend six days photographing sailing on the Algarve… You can’t knock that… Last time I went sailing for more than a few hours, it was from Falmouth in the UK to Lagos, Portugal via the notorious Bay of Biscay. It was mostly cold, violent, hard…
GoPro Launches HD HERO2
You know that little turn to camera that you can stick anywhere, shoots amazing HD video and not bad stills, is water, shock and idiot proof… well it’s just got a whole lot better! GoPro have just announced an update to the HD HERO line in the form of the HD HERO 2. And it’s…
