Well happy new year to you. My new year will be largely taken up with restocking after a bumper set of Christmas markets and starting to...

This is positively the last set of shots currently in my catalogue from Holme Fell. It was such a beautiful autumn afternoon that I...

Finally deciding it was time to move on from my obsession with Holme Fell I tried a new area for the first time. Driving north alongside...

Langdale Pikes This was the first day’s shooting with my new Panasonic lens for my Olympus OMD-EM10 and I was excited by it. Also the...

my new lens a couple of posts ago. One very useful side-effect is that it has a 52mm filter thread which just happens to be one of the...

My camera equipment is always on the leading edge of the technology curve – I’ve just bought a second hand Panasonic 14-45 mm zoom lens,...

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 –...

It is my view that there are no magic secrets to getting a good photograph and that subject matter and composition always trump technical...

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 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...

I did a lovely round of Lingmoor Fell and Little and Great Langdales last week. Lots of autumn colour. As you’ll see this small hill has...

Coed y Brenin Whenever a walk has a significant stretch in managed woodlands, like Forestry Commission woods, I always get lost. It isn’t...

Duddon Valley The Duddon Valley is in the south-west of the Lake District, running north to south just to the left of Coniston. It isn’t...

St Sunday Crag seen through Grisedale Hause, Fairfield on the right, Dollywagon Pike on the left. Joy and I went to the Lake District for...

We travelled to Provence for the first time in 2016. A village called Malaucene, at the foot of Mont Ventoux, famous as a long-standing...

Here are some shots I took of Nant Gwynant yesterday. This is the valley in Snowdonia that runs from Beddgelert northwards, to the...

Shining Tor is the highest point in Cheshire. It has great views (on a clear day) across the Cheshire plain. This wasn’t such a clear day...

When photographing I spend most of my time in Snowdonia, the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, etc. Hilly places of obvious scenic...