I arrived back in the UK after a short trip to ISPO last week, to find the latest issue of What Mountain Bike magazine on the shelves at Gatwick Airport. The cover image jumped out at me. It’s one of mine from a photography shoot I did for the magazine back before Christmas at the…
MBUK: Out Front – Kinlochleven Enduro
Mountain Bike UK Magazine has just dropped and it’s got a nice double page spread from yours truly. Back in November 2016 I was commissioned for some mountain bike photography at the Kinlochleven Enduro, which I’ve written about here. I already had it pegged as one of the best races, I photographed during the whole of…
Kinlochleven Enduro 2016
Driving down the hill into Kinlochleven, was like driving into Narnia. Temperatures had plummeted throughout the North of Scotland and snow had fallen overnight, transferring this remote town, known for it’s history of aluminium smelting and more recently the Ice Factor National Ice Climbing Centre, into a picture perfect postcard scene. The sun was yet to rise,…
In Print: Mountain Bike UK Magazine
MBUK Big Ride Guide: Linn of Dee, Cairngorms Back in November, as snow was falling in the Northern Cairngorms, I teamed up with Max Darkins of MBUK to drive over the snow covered roads from Aviemore to the Linn of Dee. Here we joined up with two local riders Malcolm and Rebecca from OrangeFox Bikes for…
MBUK Big Ride Guide – Rothiemurchus
A couple of months ago, I joined Max Darkins from Mountain Bike UK magazine along with Sally and Bruce from Mikes Bikes in Aviemore for a ride through Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms of Scotland. It was that time of year when the leaves were turning and mud could be found in epic proportions, but the…
60th Yorkshire Three Peaks Race – Outdoor Fitness
Last year, I spent a day running around the Yorkshire Three Peaks course, it happened to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the legendary Three Peaks Race, however, I wasn’t clad in my ultra lightweight running shorts, but was lugging 15kg’s of camera kit around. Back in November some of the images from the day…
BASE Jumpers – Aiguille du Midi
I’ve just returned from a weeks snowboarding in Chamonix, France. Whilst we were there we took the opportunity to go up the Aiguille du Midi, one of the Worlds highest cable car’s. Just before the last lift of the day, two BASE Jumpers found their own way back to Chamonix. Leaping from just below the…
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…
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…
Nikon prepares to get wet
Nikon have today stepped the Mirrorless Compact Camera market up a step, with the announcement of the World’s first Waterproof, Freezeproof and Shockproof interchangeable Lens Compact Camera system, the new Nikon 1 AW1. I’m don’t normally pay to much attention to the compact market, it changes very fast and whilst there are some great compact…
