Swaledale Meadows Each year in late May and early June a natural wonder occurs in the Yorkshire Dales. The meadows come into flower....

I had a washed out day yesterday in the Lake District. I expected some light drizzle but it was just too much. You should never give up...

There is a geologic period called the Devonian. One characteristic of it was the formation of extensive forests, with ferns being one of...

These three shots are not new but I’ve revisited the processing for two of them. I wrote a few weeks ago about how I found how effective...

I talked a few posts ago about our perceptions of image sharpness. I illustrated that post with an example of extreme sharpness – showing...

I did a walk on wednesday starting at Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick in the Lake District. The weather was perfect for walking –...

Visiting the northern Lake District I’d intended to walk round the bottom end of Derwentwater but the lake had other ideas. Heavy rain...

Llanberis Pass Seeing the Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia in heavy cloud is pretty common. Even on a bright day it doesn’t see much sun, the...

By coincidence I exchanged comments a day or so ago with a reader from Helsinki who had posted a YouTube link showing his driving in...

This is a classic circuit of the hills above Coniston. Up to the Old Man of Coniston, around the head of the valley to Dow Crag, along...

The High Street range from St Sunday Crag Nowadays it isn’t often that you get so much snow in the Lake District. Add in clear blue sky...

I made this trip nearly three years ago but the shots have languished in the catalogue ever since, untouched and unloved. The day was far...

Duddon Valley Ulpha is a small Cumbrian village in the heart of the Duddon Valley. This is a little-explored part of the Lake District....

The welsh tourist town of Llanberis, at the foot of Mount Snowdon, is not dominated by the highest mountain in Wales and England, nor by...

Grey Christmas We spent the Christmas week this year in Cumbria, in a rented cottage in a little village called Brigsteer. This is near...

Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf I was going to title this post “Llyn Tecwyn Uchaf” but that would look like I’d just dropped a book on the keyboard....

Sunset and Moonrise from Shining Tor looking east. Shining Tor is the highest hill in Cheshire, just to the east of Macclesfield. Looking...

This has been a great autumn and it isn’t over yet. I went back to the woods at Alderley Edge and found them full of colour and with the...

I took a couple of shots earlier this year that have had a big influence on me. They were both shots of narrow, tree-lined lanes. Since...

Some shots from a welsh trip this week. Not as successful as I’d hoped even though the colours were at their best. I didn’t focus in...