The Scottish winter is refusing to materialise. This weekend I should have been in the Southern Highlands photographing backcountry skiing, but the location is yet to get a covering of snow. Which meant I had a spare couple of days, which is actually much appreciated after the chaotic last few weeks. So, missing the sea…
Dancing Green Lights
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,…
The snow is back
The cold weather reappeared in North Yorkshire yesterday, bringing snow, strong winds and high seas.
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…
Saltburn Surf…
Its good to escape the office sometimes, leave behind the computer, the cameras and the deadlines… Its been too long since I’ve been in the water… but with the sun shinning and the waves stacking up, it couldn’t be missed!
Creative Inspiration at its best!
Every once in a while an artist comes along who can change your whole way of thinking, of seeing, of creating! Six months ago “Dark Side Of The Lens” dropped in to my inbox, and since then I have sat and watched it countless times. Through flat spells, before surfing and often just to to…
Gale warnings…
Yesterday, I woke to the shipping forecast, telling me to expect severe gale force 9 in the North Sea, the area I call home! Today the North of England is battered by these gales, blowing from the South West, pulling down trees, snapping telegraph posts and whipping the sea in to a boiling froth of…
Websites, Social Media, staying ahead and life on the road
Wow, its been a long time, 8 months in fact since my last post, I never thought I would leave it this long! It’s not been a lack of ideas that has prevented me posting, more a lack of time! So since January I have been to many places and photographed many different things… From…
