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A quick photo captured during my 1-2-2 tuition day with two new clients today in the Lake District (the wonderful Muriel and Charlie). After they had got their images in the camera, and were packing up, I quickly moved into position to include this beautiful wooden log that had washed up against the shoreline.
Placing it in the bottom right hand corner, the log leads the eye towards the wooden jetty of the boathouse before the viewer ends up admiring this wonderful live in boathouse.
You can rent this boathouse on a nightly basis (around £300) and it surely must have one of the finest views in the Lake District. A very iconic place to photograph but you can see why.
Tomorrow I head back up to the Lakes on a 1-2-1 with a new client and the weather is looking like summer again, pure blue skies and brilliant sunshine. I shall have to choose our locations carefully to maximise that light.
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I had a very enjoyable day on Friday as I was assisting Shaun on a 1-2-1 tuition day in the Lake District. Our first port of call was Coniston and knowing the area very well, I decided to take him to these wonderful little wooden jetties.
I was demonstrating the art of composing an image incorporating several factors (tree roots, the pier itself, the snow caped peaks of the Old Man in the background not to mention the main tree too).
This is what I eventually came up with.
Thoughts?
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I was only in Venice for two days and as such, felt the need to maximise my time there. I had based myself at the lovely Hotel Flora, just 300m from St Mark's Square. It took a mere four minutes to walk and realising just how busy Venice gets a little after sunrise, I opted to venture out at 4.30am to revel in the beauty of this huge square.
On arriving the first thing that I noticed was the occasional late night/early morning drunken reveler on their way back to their base. They were no bother at all and I was able to continue to set up and shoot.
But the beauty of St Mark's Square was all too evident as the many thousands of lights twinkled and illuminated the parts worth showcasing. I quite liked the red chairs in this image as they stood idle waiting for the hustle and bustle of thousands of visitors to use them in just a few hours.
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Since arriving back home on Thursday from my two weeks away around the south island of New Zealand, I have barely found the time to even look at the photos I captured on camera let alone edit a dozen and write up a blog on my experience. I guess it will have to wait until I return from my trip to Skye tomorrow where I will be running a five day workshop until Friday.
Anyhow, I did want to share this panoramic image that I edited earlier this evening of an absolute stunning place that I was told about by Bret, the manager of ASURE Ambassador Motor Lodge in Oamaru. While chatting to the ever so friendly Brett on checkout, he happened to mention these outstanding natural clay cliffs en-route to Mt Cook National Park.
So Ed and I decided to go and pay them a visit and boy was we so glad that we did. This place is spellbinding and HUGE.
Basically, these clay cliffs are tall pinnacles separated by narrow ravines and are made up of layers of gravel and silt, originally formed by the flow from ancient glaciers over a million years ago. OVER A MILLION YEARS AGO. WOW.
It is difficult to appreciate the sheer size of these towering pinnacles as there is nothing in shot to give you a sense of scale so here is a drone video I found on YouTube by Y2J Does Asia.Skip the first thirty seconds of him chatting to the French couple and watch in awe as he pilots the drone of some of the most stunning scenery I have come across in New Zealand. I LOVE THIS PLACE.
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Taken on a workshop that I ran in the truly stunning Assynt and Inverpolly region of Scotland last November.
This particular morning we visited the ruins of Ardvreck Castle which dates back to the 16th century and stands on a rocky promontory jutting out into Loch Assynt. It makes a wonderful scene to shoot but normally with a much longer lens in order to have the castle occupy a more dominant role but the clouds that rolled on by in an otherwise glorious blue sky were too hard to resist and so the castle takes a back seat role in this image.
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WOW, WOW, WOW, what a sunset that was and believe it or not, genuine colours too (raw file to prove). It was an incredible end to what was a cracking day's photography in Ireland early in May and this remains one of my favourite images from my week over there.
It's a lovely feeling to be able to delve back into a folder of raw files from a great trip and find so many images of stunning scenes ready and waiting to be edited. But in terms of road trips, the memories forged are just as important as the images that I capture for these I carry around with me always and forever.
Landscape photography has changed my life in ways I could only dream of back in 2007 when I bought my first DSLR (a used Minolta 5D). In fact, I'd go as far as to say that it has created a life for me. Images like these have me feel thankful for the small pleasures that I enjoy.
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I visited the brand new Ashness Pier very early this morning after ringing the Keswick Boat Company yesterday asking if the floating pontoon had been removed and after confirming that it had, I drove up there this morning to capture a photo or two of it.
The weather forecast was looking less than favourable on first inspection but on arriving, I was so excited to see heavy mist and light rain falling. Why was I excited?
Well, it's a brand new pier with brand new bright and clean wooden planks and this did not inspire me but on seeing the lovely reflections of the posts in the sodden wood planks, a big smile grew on my face. The wood also darkened down a bit with a little bit of water on them.
I must confess now, that should you visit this pier, you will not get exactly the same shot. Why? Well, those lovely iconic wooden steps that you see at the end of the pier are no longer there. Let me explain. When I visited the pier a couple of weeks ago, two joiners were finishing off the posts at the end of the pier. We chatted and I asked if the wooden steps would be making a return and they said no as the new pier was now built to the correct height to have foot passengers step aboard the boats without the aid of the steps.
I said that it was a crying shame as those steps were what made Ashness Pier iconic and that their absence would be sorely missed (by me at least anyway). I looked behind me and noticed them sat on the shoreline amongst the old rotten wooden posts and planks. I asked if I could have them and they agreed that I could as they were being skipped anyway. So, I very happily loaded them into the boot of my car.
So, this morning, on arriving at the pier, I placed the steps at the end as a homage to the old pier and I could not be happier. They look so well suited there don't they? Well I obviously brought them home with me after the shoot and the pier looks naked again without them sadly.
One thing to mention about the new pier is that it is not only a lot shorter but it's also a fair amount wider. Those steps just about slotted into the gap on the old pier but you can see several inches of space on either side of them on this new pier. At least you'll be able to have the boat passengers walk past you now while you are photographing it so that's not a bad thing.
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This gorgeous scene opened up before us as we were driving to the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse in the very northern part of Lewis.
Me and my six clients ventured down to the loch once I had located the landowner and asked for his permission to gain access to his land to spend an hour or so shooting the beautiful views. I thought it polite to ask.
The lone boat gently swung around throughout the hour or so so it was just a question of waiting for it to position itself perfectly before capturing it on camera. I have to confess that I find the Outer Hebrides absolutely alluring and captivating not only to photograph but just to drive around and soak up the remoteness and isolation that some of the locations offer you. It's simply magical and if you have the island on your bucket list of places to visit, please do so before it's too late (whilst it is still quiet and peaceful).
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Fisherman at Pulpit Rock, Portland Bill, Dorset.
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Another image taken during the beautiful sunset on Wednesday evening. I took Derek and Martin, my two clients down to the landing stages at Derwentwater an hour or so before sunset in the hope of capturing these gorgeous wooden passenger boats in the fading sun.
We were not to be disappointed. I have to confess that I have a love affair with these boats and if I was able to buy and run one, I would, I love them that much.
This boat is called Annie Mellor was the sister of Sir George Mellor, JP, who was appointed a knighthood in 1921 for public and national services, particularly in connection with The King’s Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital, Blackpool.
This boat was built in 1932 by Borwick & Sons as a houseboat for Sir George Mellor, JP. At the time, there was seating for 120 with accommodation for 40 in the cabin which was furnished in blue velvet with mahogany and brass fittings. It arrived at Derwentwater in 1935 and after a total rebuild in 2008 is still in regular use today.
You can read up on all of the Keswick Launch Company's passenger boats on Derwentwater here.
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Taken back in November during a five day workshop that I was running on Skye, this iconic view of the Old Man of Storr looked absolutely gorgeous. After a healthy walk up to the ridge, we turned around and within minutes saw the sky fill with the most beautiful colours of pink, yellow, red, blue and orange.
It's a very impressive sight with perhaps one of the most amazing views anywhere in the UK. If you have never visited Skye with your camera and have always promised yourself that you would, well lucky for you I have a couple of places left on my 22nd-27th February 2019 workshop.
Priced at only £795, you will be treated to five nights in a beautiful welcoming and warm five bedroom cottage near Portree as well as enjoying my many years experience photographing the magical island.
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Taken during my first and recent visit to Dorset last month. One of the most frustrating challenges I face as a full-time, professional landscape photographer is trying to capture an iconic location differently and uniquely. Durdle Door is arguably the jewel in the Dorset crown (actually I prefer Castle Corfe) and it has been photographed a million times by a million people but how to photograph it differently.
This is what I settled on. Arriving at 1am one calm, warm morning late September this year, I sat halfway down the steps and just took in the view. Weymouth in the distance providing some lovely warm light and the sound of the waves gently crashing up against the pebbled beach which produced that high pitched and empty clattering sound of pebble on pebble action as the water ruffled them up on the outstroke.
I wanted to use my amazing LED Lenser head torch to illuminate the landscape and after a few goes, I settled on lighting the mainland areas and the rock face to the left of Durdle Door for twenty-five seconds followed by holding the torch downwards from above my head for just five seconds. The quality and power generated from the £60 torch is quite remarkable. I am very happy with what I have achieved here, not least because it's a little out of the ordinary.
What do you think of it? Hit or miss?
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Another new edit for you. Looking back on images like this one that I took on a week long workshop that I ran back in October has me long to spend an unhealthy amount of time in a country that has a piece of me remain behind ready for me to be reunited the next time I visit.
The only other country to have this effect on me is New Zealand which is a place I have had the good fortune to visit twice.
Have a great evening everyone 😀
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Taken on my World Tour of the UK last July and August, this wonderful old pier (which incidentally happens to be the only pier to link an island to the mainland) is in a serious state of disrepair but I often find beauty in the less than perfect structures and buildings.
On setting up, the sky started colouring up into a gorgeous orange glow which was in contrast to the green/blue of the water beneath it. It was just a lovely evening to be out and experiencing Weston-super-Mare
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The weather conditions that day were quite dramatic and I could not resist lining the camera up against this wonderful rock pool wall that curves round just perfectly.
The castle of Bamburgh stands guard over the shoreline as it has done for hundreds of years.
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I have said many times previously that I am not a wildlife photographer but occasionally I will attempt to capture on camera something that tickles my fancy and Herons for some reason tend to always have me reach for my camera.
This one that was moving about in the grass reeds yesterday during a 1-2-1 with a new client was begging to be photographed. It even stood still while I set up my camera complete with the 70-200mm lens.
Anyway, I hope you're all having a lovely Sunday afternoon :-)
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Iceland is quite simply a magical playground for the landscape photographer. Every corner reveals something quite extraordinary. This scene is hidden behind a large wall of earth as you approach the first of two car parks as you're heading east.
I parked up the minibus on my week long workshop there last month with my four clients and we raced up to the top of the earthy mound to see this gorgeous view before us. I could not help but capture it in a five vertical image panorama stitched together in Photoshop CC.
The light and colours were stunning and the icebergs slowly moved around the lagoon. The clarity of the water was outstanding. This was definitely one of my favourite views of the workshop. I hope you like it too.
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What a truly stunning 40ft waterfall this is. You gain access to it via a thirty-minute walk which I did with crampons on as the path up and down was super slippery in parts. My good friend Duncan was my guide for the day as he had previously visited it. What an absolute gem of a find.
I loved the black columnar basalt formations which provided a wonderful backdrop to the waterfall. I set up the camera while stood on the ice which formed over the river (I'm sure I'll go through the ice one of these days) and the black hole in the ice attracted me to this particular viewpoint. Due to the limited focusing ability of my 16-35mm f4 Canon lens, I decided to focus stack seven images into one to ensure that the whole image was sharp and in focus back to front.
A few minutes before I was stood directly under some huge icicles to the left of this image and I had to take my chance on them not falling on me while setting up but it was this image that I preferred in the end. I hope you all love it and once again Iceland delivers some stunning scenes to photograph.
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Chemical Beach, what a place. Full of interesting things to shoot. This image was captured during some really difficult weather conditions and I remember that day being the wettest and windiest that I have shot in for some time and Tony Higginson (who was shooting with me) also thought the same.
We ventured down from Bamburgh to Seaham to shoot Chemical Beach. This beach has some incredibly impressive viewpoints from which to capture the sea stack from but in the end I settled on this rather lovely old wooden beam. It was large enough to lead me into the image and along to the seastack itself.
What are your thoughts?
p.s. This image is a HDR shot created from three images in camera. Impressive HDR feature from Canon.
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Another brand new edit from my week in Ireland early in May. As a landscape photographer, I know the quality of a location /county /country when it is still offering me up gorgeous views and images for me to edit almost seven weeks after returning and this stunning scene of Dunquin is no different.
Dunquin is a Gaeltacht village in West County Kerry, Ireland and it lies at the most westerly tip of the Dingle Peninsula, overlooking the Blasket Islands. It is also the most westerly settlement of Ireland. Nearby Dunmore Head is the most westerly point of mainland Ireland.
I had seen images of this location prior to arriving so OI knew that this viewpoint is the main one to capture but nonetheless, it is still beautiful. I remember standing there earlier in the day with the harsh light of the sun basking the whole area in light but knowing that the time to revisit would be at dusk and I was not wrong. There is a wonderful series of steps down to the ledge which allows you to board small boats and the curvature of the walkway down lends itself well for an interesting composition.
But for me, the memories of just standing there at 9.30pm as the sun dropped behind the horizon to create the blue hour feel will stay with me for some time to come. The peace and quiet, the birds flying by, the crashing of the waves against the dramatic rock formations below, these are the moments why I love what I do for a living, love being a professional landcape photographer. The opportunities for me to connect with mother nature and the great outdoors is one that I treasure and appreciate every time I head out with my camera. I hope you feel that too when you look at my images.
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I got to witness a gorgeous sunset over from the Hang Gliders Launch, Mount Tamborine in Queensland, Australia this week.
This is an iconic place for sunset lovers and romantic couples to turn up and watch the sun go down. Couples turned up with blankets to keep themselves warm but you will quite often see the more adventurous among us in the form of hang gliders running off the hill and into the air.
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Isn't it funny how time flies by and yet memories can stay with you forever. This photo was taken during my few days off between running workshops in Skye and Glencoe back in November 2016.
Life was hectic, with emails, phone calls and media requests for my Fogbow image (white rainbow over the tree in the snow image) that standing there behind my camera, watching the sun go down on another day, I felt a peace and calmness descend on me in the most therapeutic way.
And that's the thing about landscape photography that's so important for me. It offers me a chance to 'zone out' and immerse myself in the scene. Reality gets replaced by fantasy as you lose yourself in the beautiful surroundings (if that makes sense). As such I find photography to be very important for my soul and a clear mind and it feels like something I HAVE to do rather than want to do sometimes. It really is a wonderful position to be in.
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy watching the sun go down over this loch on the beautiful and desolate Rannoch Moor. Peace out.
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I and my five clients were blessed with some rather challenging weather on Skye back in mid-November but not on this day. The sun was shining over the lightly covered snow-capped peaks of the 160ft tall rock of the Old Man of Storr. Personally, I love the little island with its lone tree that no doubt has weathered many a storm passing over Skye during the winter months.
Sometimes the smallest things turn out to be the hardiest in life which always has me in awe of mother nature. I am so pleased to hear that Planet Earth II has a record number of viewers, displacing all the reality TV shows. This shows me that people want to connect with the great outdoors and wildlife in general. This pleases me greatly for the more people that get to witness and appreciate such views as this one, the more this plant will benefit from it.
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Taken today during a 1-2-1 I was running with John, a new client and the conditions were magical at Hodge Close in the Lake District. As we arrived, the stormy skies rolled in bringing threatening amounts of rain in the air.
The sun fought its way through the little pockets of clear air between the dark clouds and when this happened it lit up the peaks of the Langdales. What i loved was the wonderful layering of the light from the dark trees at the bottom of the image to the brighter mid-ground of the fells and the lower section of the sky working its way to near darkness at the top of the frame.
I have a couple more images from today so I'll share them over the next couple of days. I am back in the Lakes tomorrow on another 1-2-1 with another client of mine Richard. If you think you could benefit from spending a day with me, feel free to take a look at my 1-2-1 page on my website for full details.
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Last night I ventured up Loughrigg Fell in the Lake District with my good buddy Tony Higginson. We climbed up close to the 1,000ft summit that gave grand vistas of the surrounding scenery which were breath-taking as always.
In the distance are the dramatic lines of the iconic Langdale Pikes and above it the colours were building nicely before they dropped away. The sky was amazing, the clouds so purposeful and dominant. I knew that they would look fantastic on camera and I'm delighted to see that on this occasion I was correct.
I hope you all like the view of the Langdales. Have a great day guys and girls and feel free to SHARE this post if you wish :D
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This image is an eight vertical image stitched panorama at sunrise taken at the end of my recent 26 day tour of the UK. It was a glorious morning and well worth dragging my backside out of bed at 4.30am for.
I rather liked Southwold Pier. Having arrived the night before in my stripped out nine seater minibus which was converted into a makeshift campervan for the tour, the main sign was all lit up and the whole pier looked lovely and vibrant as the sun set in the distance. Seeing it again first thing in the morning was a treat too.
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I was just going through my many photo albums on my hard drive from my time spent in Glencoe over the years. I was looking for a couple of 'yet to be edited' winter images to promote next year's workshop to Glencoe (Jan 2019, announced next week) when I came across this little gem.
It was taken way back in February 2015 and I remember that day so well. I was with a couple of clients, John and Gareth and we were so cold standing around waiting for the sun to hit the peaks of the Three Sisters. But when it eventually arrived and lit them up, all the waiting was worth it.
This is one of the most remarkable views I can think of in the UK. Standing on that rocky ridge, just a ten minute walk from the car affords you some spectacular scenes of the whole valley in front of you. Glencoe really is amazing.
I hope you like the photo. Feel free to share if you wish :D
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If there's one thing that i love photographing, it's lighthouses and this one that sits a little inland from the ocean on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland is a delight to capture on camera.
This image was taken back in February the morning before my seven day photography tour started. The sky was the most wonderful shade of blue and the whiteness of the snow contrasted beautifully. Little wonder why I love visiting Iceland in the winter, although I also love photographing the country during the autumn months too.
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My 'Lightning Strike Over Jodrell Bank' image has made page 23 in the daily Mail newspaper today.
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WOW, what a morning I have just experienced with my good friend Stephen Cheatley. We decided at 1am this morning to visit Jodrell Bank as a fierce lightning storm was fast approaching and I just thought that it would provide a great opportunity to capture a couple of 'cracking' shots.
The power and intensity of a full blown lightning storm both is exhilarating and humbling as everything around you illuminates incredibly brightly as though lit up by an atomic bomb (see attached video in the comment box below to see what I mean).
This particular shot was captured at 4.17am as the sky was starting to brighten as sunrise edged ever closer.
The warm pinks in the sky were all too evident and the strike itself only just missed the Lovell Telescope. I hope you like the image.
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I'm just looking back through literally thousands of images that I have taken over the winter from the many different locations that I have visited including Skye, Glencoe, Lewis & Harris, Iceland, Lake District and Yorkshire and I see so many images that I have yet to look at properly let alone edit.
But here's one that I took on the gorgeous Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland back in mid-January of this year. To be honest, I cannot remember exactly where I took it but it was somewhere near the Callanish Stones area, perhaps a little further up the coast. I did so much travelling that week that it was difficult keeping track.
The rock formations at this location peaked my interest, not just because of their shape and textures but also that they had plant life growing on them which helps to give the image 'life'. The stunning aqua colour of the water in the distance (yes it really is that colour) merely adds to the colour palette of the image.
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Well, today was to be my last day in Northumberland this week as I head home tomorrow morning. Tony and I have had two great workshops this week and eight cracking people joining us. The weather has been ahem 'challenging' at times but nonetheless, t has presented us with some fantastic opportunities to photograph the stunning scenery.
Here is the iconic Bamburgh Castle during sunset today. The sky was epic, the colours subtly beautiful and the muted reflections beautiful. I hope you all like it.
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I had a wander around Llyn Idwal over the Christmas period to test out the MindShift Gear rotation180° Panorama 22L and MeFOTO Roadtrip tripod.
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Surely one of the finest sunrises I have ever witnessed while in Dorset last month. Corfe Castle became my favourite location to photograph and on this particular morning I met fellow photographer Mark Pelleymounter who lives in the area.
We arrived on location very early and were the first on the scene so we set up in what we believed to be the best viewpoint (and I still think that). Jeremy Walker happened to walk by with a client in tow and a quick chat and a catch up followed before the serious business of shooting the castle took place.
The colours started to build, more people arrived and took their position higher up the hill but that would push the castle down in front of the hill behind it, therefore losing the outline of the castle. I was so happy to see the colours gaining strength and I was like the cat that got the cream when I captured this in-camera HDR image on my Canon 5Ds. My DSLR may be a 50mp monster and there are times when I question whether I need such high resolution but on morning's like these, absolutely I do. See the heavily cropped section of the castle below in the comment boxes to see the amazing quality of the Canon 5Ds.
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A brand new edit of an image not seen before of some stunning conditions that I so enjoyed last September in Tuscany.
This is the iconic Podere Belvedere agriturismo (farmhouse) and this nestles in the world famous San Quirico d'Orcia region of Tuscany. It is here that you will more often than not witness the mist rolling through the valley enveloping all that lay below it.
This farmhouse sits on top of a small rise and can often be seen peering through the mist, almost hauntingly. On this particular morning, I was so fortunate to capture the rising sun over the distant rolling hills as the mist swirled and rolled by. It truly was one of the most amazing scenes that I witnessed last year and Tuscany just blew my mind. It was so incredibly beautiful.
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During a visit to Crosby beach in Merseyside in June this year, I wanted to capture a colourful image of one of Antony Gormley's Another Place men. The status are based on Antony's body apparently.
The conditions were perfect for what I had in mind and despite travelling an hour or so each way, I only took this scene and this is it. I used my Nisi filters to slow the water down to 25 seconds and I have admittedly cleaned up the beach a little from the high tide debris that was left lying around.
During the incredible weather that we experienced this summer, I wanted to create an almost tropical paradise kind of image. I'm happy with it. Question is. Does it work?
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Captured today during a 1-2-1 tuition day with a client of mine. I took Melissa to one of my favourite places in the Lake District, Hodge Close Quarry. It is a fantastic slate ex-quarry that was mined until the 1960's.
There are so many gorgeous silver birch trees that line the whole area and the beautiful white trunks really compliment the grey colour of the surrounding slate. This tree is always the first one to be photograph as it stands at the edge of a steep drop down to a lower section of land. Despite it leaning over, the roots lie deep and it survives the harshest of the winter weather year on year.
I love its doggedness and determination to cling onto life. Surely a wonderful metaphor for modern day living I would say. I hope you all like it. I have applied an analogue filter to create a certain aged look. I like the result. If you do too, please feel free to share the photo on your page :D
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This wonderful ruins of Ardvreck Castle stand dormant on the shoreline of the six mile long Loch Assynt.Thought to have been built around 1590, this castle was owned by the Clan MacLeod who at that time owned Assynt it seems.
This three storey castle was once much larger than the present ruins and it housed a wall garden and a a formal courtyard. These days all that sadly remains is the tower and part of the defensive wall and when the waters of the loch reached very high levels, the peninsula that the castle stands on can be cut off from the mainland (Wikipedia).
Either way this is a wonderful subject to photograph at sunrise. There is also the shell of the nearby Calda House, a 1726 mansion built by the second Kenneth MacKenzie of Assynt for his wife who thought that castle opposite was too auster and uncomfortable.
Anyhow, have a great Thursday everyone, I am about to take my lovely group of clients off out to capture the sunrise colours behind Suilven at Loch Druim Suadalian.
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Captured during a late afternoon in November during one of my workshops in Glencoe. This location is wonderful and only a short ten minute from the car. If the sky is clear, the colours that appear are wonderful, but only after the sun has set. This view is just one of the reasons why I love Scotland as much as I do. Just magical.
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I visited this wonderful stretch of coastline during my recent 26 day tour of the UK and for the first time too. The water was wild and I noticed how the waves rose and fell over both the waste pipe and its water marker. It reminded me of the famous French image by Jean Guichard called La Jument of the lighthouse keeper who was stood at his lighthouse front door whilst being photographed from above as a HUGE wave comes and pounds itself around the lighthouse. It scares me just looking at it. (the lighthouse keeper survived by stepping back and closing the door just before the water engulfed him and the lighthouse.
The movement of the water and how it revealed the pipe and water marker before completely engulfing it fascinated me (hence the reminder of the French lighthouse image). This beach is an amazing place to be during high tide and whilst it's true that the sea spray made shooting this scene difficult but anything worth having should not come easy in my opinion.
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I have spent the last hour trying to figure out the names of the fells in the distance but failed. You you know, please let me know. I took this photo while driving from Muker to Preston via Kirkby Stephen on Monday evening (around 6.30pm) and the light was just sublime.
I felt compelled to pull up the minibus, jump out, walk a hundred yards to the highest point around me and set up my Canon 5D MK4 with the 24-70mm f4 lens. The light intensified as the clouds rolled right to left. The main fell in the middle of the frame was just being kept in check by the heavy set dark, brooding sky above it. Just a magical moment to witness and capture on camera.
I hope you all like it and as usual, please feel FREE TO SHARE if you wish. Many thanks in advance.
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Captured on the 19th October 2020, this viewpoint is one of my favourite sunset locations in the Vrsic Pass area. This timelapse was filmed from hairpin Number 17 at 1,418 metres above sea level.
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I took this photo yesterday while in the Lake District with friends and it is included in my latest YouTube video that I uploaded yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gkLBfbxYSY
And here's a feature that Ellie Harrison filmed earlier this year for the BBC TV show 'Secret Britain'. It shows just how difficult and remote this place is.
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Scale Force just happens to be my favourite waterfall in the Lake District. Partly because it is one of the quite incredible location it lies in (a narrow, 120ft deep, moss covered rock gorge an hour's walk up a large fell alongside Crummock Water) but also because it feels as though it has never been discovered by humans.
The green moss that lines the walls of the gorge is so vibrant that people will think that I have increased the saturation in Photoshop too much and the redness of the water actually does exist. It really is an absolutely special place of mine.
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One of the challenges you will find shooting a 120ft waterfall like Scale Force is that it is actually three waterfalls and to climb up the incredibly slippery and near-vertical rock walls in order to reach the top one is dangerous and no mean feat.
The spray from the main waterfall as it drifts towards you and your camera means that it's a constant battle to keep the lens and filters dry. But if you preserve, this image is what you are likely to end up with.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did taking it.
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I do not shoot astro photography very often but when called on I can do so. This photograph was taken last week while running a workshop in the Lake District. One of my client's wanted to head out for an hour or so late at night in an attempt to capture a starry night shot above the stone circle. I used a head torch to very quickly light up the rocks for effect.
Her wish was my command and at 10pm we ventured out during a rather chilly night to find the stone circle empty (that's rare these days). The conditions were just amazing. You know just standing there looking up at the stars and allowing yourself to be mesmorised by them is an absolute pleasure and a privilege.
I would recommend it to anyone. I do hope you all like it. Have a great evening and feel free to SHARE as usual if you wish. Thank you :D
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Beautiful light bathes Swanage Bay in Dorset during the summer of 2021.
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Firstly Happy Easter everyone. I hope you all have a great extended weekend.
So to start the weekend I thought that i would share a cute image of a mother and baby coo on Harris that i took a couple of weeks ago. I was quite excited to see my very first baby Highland coo and they're so cute too.
I loved seeing the bond between the two of them with Daddy Coo not that far behind. I shot from a reasonable distance so as to not cause them any additional stress although they did not seem unduly perturbed.
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I visited this wonderful location called Fairy Glen (not Fairy Pools) on the stunning Isle of Skye yesterday tea time. I had only visited this place once before and many years before and vowed to return one day. Well, yesterday was that day.
I had five clients with me as I am leading a workshop and two of them had visited previously and had loved the place and it's not difficult to see why. There are a few tall grassy mounds and a couple of very, small ponds and the whole area genuinely has a mystical feel to it. I kept expecting to see fairies dancing around the bottom of the grassy mounds.
Here are the coordinates should you fancy visiting it :D
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Have a great Wednesday everyone.
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