If you are driving through the Highlands of Scotland during the months of March and April, there’s a good chance you will see columns of smoke rising up on the horizon, behind at least one hill. In most cases, this is likely down to the Scottish Muirburn season which sees great swathes of heathland burnt…
Aurora Frustrations
The weather was perfect in so many ways yesterday, I was working in Grantown-on-Spey on a commercial photography shoot. The drive there and back was wall to wall blue skies, temperatures sitting around 19˚C – yes that’s 19˚C in March in the Highlands of Scotland. In the evening I drove to Aviemore, for a walk…
Sunset Shadows
Last night I witnessed an incredable sunset, which had a slightly apocalyptic feel as a giant shadow was cast over the cloud, I’m guessing as the sun dipped down behind Ben Wyvis in the far distance.
Northern Lights – Inverness March 2016
I remember when I first witnessed the Northern Lights, I was about ten years old and I was terrified. I don’t know why, but I remember standing on the cliff top, at home in North Yorkshire, looking out past the lights of Middlesbrough and watching these strange shapes move around the sky. They filled me…
Hogmanay Aurora Borealis
What better way to welcome in the New Year, than to watch as the Aurora Borealis dance in the sky above you. Enjoying a midnight stroll, with a hip flaske of single malt, we watched as the finest light show in the World kicked off above our very heads. Happy New Year, wherever you are!
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,…
Newcastle Snow
It snowed overnight here in Newcastle, so here are a couple of images as I cycled into the office.
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…
The British Summer….
Yesterday it rained rather heavily, in fact it poured for most of the day… I lay awake last night listening to the rain beating down on the roof above… and this morning I sipped my coffee watching it run down the windows…. It’s August, it should be red hot outside, I should be in shorts…
