Hause Gap from Dollywagon Pike looking towards Windermere in the distance #cumbria #landscape #pentax #photography

Epson printer ink costs more, gram for gram, than gold. Seriously. Actually not. Today’s gold price is £23.38 per gram. Epson ink is £21...

This is fairly typical south Pennines scenery, south of Skipton. The long and very tough grass is always a sign of very wet ground but...

The subtle texture of the spoon, with scratches and dents through long use, and the grain of the wood. #monochrome #photography

I’ve done a lot of damage to my framed photos, the ones I take to the markets to sell. Only small damage in each case (tiny marks) but...

Go to any working fishing port and you’ll see all sorts of, well, just stuff lying around. Nowadays it’s mostly made of nylon and...

Richard (www.richardjwalls.com) and I had our second outing sharing a stall at the saturday Artsmix market in Leeds yesterday. We were...

I’ll be showing at the Artsmix market tomorrow (the 22nd), at Albion Place in Leeds, with my good friend Richard. Since the last one,...

I found these trees in one of the cloughs at Hebden Bridge. I really liked their sinuous twists and the covering of lush luminous moss....

I was reading this post at thepalerook and it made me think of my worst selling-related nightmare. I’m selling pictures at an art market...

Raindrops and grass #landscape #monochrome #olympus #omdem10

I’ve had my Olympus OMD-EM10 for about a year now. It sits alongside a Pentax K20D which is a “traditional” big and heavy DSLR. This...

If you fancy a go at selling your work at art markets or art fairs, here are some details about how I went about it. Stock First you need...

I’ve started selling prints again, at Artsmix markets in Leeds. Guess which of the people in the photo is me 🙂 No, the lady didn’t buy...

Two views of mountains in the Stubai valley in Austria. #austria #landscape #monochrome

A peak in the Silvretta, Austria. The weather wasn’t good that summer (2014). #austria #landscape #monochrome

I’ve added a new monochrome gallery.

It’s bluebell time here. I’ve always found it hard to get good bluebell photos but here are some.

Taken in Brittany somewhere, but I couldn’t say where.

This is pretty typical of south pennines countryside. Not nearly as prettified as the yorkshire dales national park, much more of a...