The sun about to rise behind the hills in the north. The morning after the night before was beautiful. Clear, still, fresh. The alarm...

The northern coast of the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales is a wild and (relatively) quiet place. It’s well away from the tourist...

Drive from Caernarfon towards Beddgelert on the A4085, past Llyn Cwellyn, and you arrive at Rhyd Ddu. It’s a hamlet with pub and cafe and...

The morning after the night before, and a better night’s sleep than I often get in a bivvy bag, I woke just before the alarm went off at...

Glenridding from Silver Crag. The Helvellyn range is the far sky line. A few weeks ago, my first (successful) overnight wild camp of the...

8 miles 770 metres ascent 6 hours round trip Route map on plotaroute.com I’ve done this walk before but not for some time. Starting in...

Most of my memories of St. Ives are of sunshine and glittering sea. When we were there a few weeks ago that’s what we mostly got, along...

The island of Anglesey is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, about 16 miles long and between 400m and 1100m wide....

Friend and erstwhile market stallholder Richard and his better half Polly have moved up to better things and opened a very nice gallery...

This is Brixham, in Devon, at half past seven in the morning in September 2010. I often trawl (pardon the pun – see below) through my...

Joy and I did a walk in the Llangollen valley a few weeks ago, taking in the spectacular Pontcysyllte aqueduct, now a world heritage...

April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...

Cheshire is mostly flat. I lived in hilly areas for twenty years so I’m having to recalibrate my photographic eye to get the best out of...

In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Atop This symbol is used on Ordnance Survey maps (the best maps in the world, IMHO) to...

Yesterday I went walking around the waterside areas around Frodsham. This is a small town near the inland end of the Mersey estuary. The...

I’d made a trip to the small Cumbria lake of Tarn Hows last autumn. What I didn’t realise on that day was that if I walked about two...

In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Solitude …in which we discuss how you can find one of the best views in Snowdonia with...

Monday was supposed to be a bright sunny day in Snowdonia. It was just that as I arrived at Conwy for my morning coffee, a perfect mix of...

Some shots taken last week looking toward the end of the Snowdon range, with Lliwedd and Yr Aran prominent. Lliwedd is the double headed...

Following the lovely walk we did last week, we did another in the same area with a slight overlap, starting from the tiny village of...