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Dec 29, 2017
Lone Tree
I’m starting to catch up on my backlog of unprocessed photographs. Here’s one I like, of a tree on the hillside above the Llangollen...


Nov 3, 2017
Swaledale – the morning after
In my last post I wrote about a beautiful autumn day taking waterfall shots at Kisdon Force in Swaledale. The next morning was a...


Nov 2, 2017
Kisdon Force, Swaledale Autumn
There’s still plenty of autumn colour in the Yorkshire Dales at the moment, if you go looking for it. The trees aren’t all bare and in...


Oct 29, 2017
The Roaches
Another visit to The Roaches, the extensive area of gritstone crags in Staffordshire, just north of Leek. It won’t be the last. Although...


Oct 24, 2017
Nantmor autumn
We did a walk in Snowdonia a few days ago starting from Nantmor, near Beddgelert. The terrain is wonderful, with rocks, heather, grass,...


Oct 11, 2017
The Roaches
I went there yesterday with a cloudy forecast just hoping to get some close-ups of autumn foliage. I was rewarded with twelve minutes of...


Oct 11, 2017
Autumn in Aberglaslyn Gorge
After a good trip the week before, I took another trip to Beddgelert in North Wales to capture the Aberglaslyn Gorge with its autumn coat...


Oct 4, 2017
Snowdon by the back way
Mynydd Mawr rears above the hamlet of Rhyd Ddu with a steam train just about to arrive in the station on picture left....


Oct 1, 2017
Autumn arrives in Wales – the Aberglaslyn Gorge
While I was on holiday in Crete for two weeks, in 30+ degree sunshine, autumn arrived in Snowdonia. It seems early this year but I...


Jul 23, 2017
Penllech Beach part 2 – morning
The sun about to rise behind the hills in the north. The morning after the night before was beautiful. Clear, still, fresh. The alarm...


Jul 22, 2017
Penllech Beach wild camp – part 1
The northern coast of the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales is a wild and (relatively) quiet place. It’s well away from the tourist...


Jul 15, 2017
Nantlle Ridge overnight – part 1
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...


Jul 11, 2017
Ullswater Overnight part 2 – sunrise
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...


Jul 11, 2017
Ullswater Overnight part 1
Glenridding from Silver Crag. The Helvellyn range is the far sky line. A few weeks ago, my first (successful) overnight wild camp of the...


Jun 30, 2017
St Ives – turquoise and grey
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...


Jun 26, 2017
The bridges of Anglesey
The island of Anglesey is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, about 16 miles long and between 400m and 1100m wide....


Jun 13, 2017
Swaledale flower meadows
Friend and erstwhile market stallholder Richard and his better half Polly have moved up to better things and opened a very nice gallery...


May 17, 2017
Brixham Sunrise
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...


May 17, 2017
Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site
Joy and I did a walk in the Llangollen valley a few weeks ago, taking in the spectacular Pontcysyllte aqueduct, now a world heritage...


Apr 11, 2017
Damson and Blackthorn
April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...
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