• Beech Avenue, Autumn
  • and a journey began, Surrey Sunrise
  • Touched, Southerndown
  • Jolly Holidays, Twilight
  • Woodland Colour
  • Loch Ba before dawn
  • Power, Battersea
  • Progress, Millennium Bridge
  • above us only sky
  • Bamburgh Pastels
  • Holmbury Hill
  • Beech Avenue, Spring
  • landscape

  • Mar1

    Landscape Photography Magazine

    Posted in: Articles, Location, landscape

    In March a new and beautifully produced Landscape Photography magazine launches which I will write for. This is my first article:

      The Colour Purple

    In landscape photography, one of the first and most common questions that people will ask is about methods for controlling the sky. To most mortal men ‘controlling the sky’ might seem a grandiose task on a par with something a modern day Icarus & Ithacus might take on. However, to a band of dedicated, some might say almost-committed, early rising, wet-booted, cold-footed landscape photography devotees it is one of the most basic skills we have to master. Now of course if an infinite number of chimps, working on an infinite number of typewriters, for infinite amount of time could produce the works of Shakespeare then it is not beyond the wit of man to see that us landscape chimps will come up with many complex ways to solve our sky based issues and probably then spend quite a lot of time arguing about which is ‘the’ way.

    To start from the beginning, why do we need to control the sky?

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  • Feb16

    Buildings & People & Cars, Oh my!

    Posted in: Articles, Surrey, landscape

    Sunset at Denbies Vineyard, Dorking

    Many of us landscape photographers spend many hours and weeks away from family and friends chasing after spectacular scenes in dramatic far flung locations in the wee small hours, trying to put our stamp on a well known scene.

    Sometimes, however, lovely scenes are just waiting for us on our own doorstep and I am lucky enough to live in the quietly lovely Surrey Hills. This main shot here is not usually the type of shot I go for. Usually, I will go to great lengths to minimise signs of human existence on the planet, preferring instead to capture the beauty of nature generally focusing on emotion rather than a record of a particular location.

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  • Feb1

    Skyless Dorset

    Posted in: Articles, Dorset, landscape, seascape

    Peveril Panoramic Rocks - Swanage, Dorset

    One of the great things about shooting trips to Dorset is that there are so many fantastic locations all around you. For this particular shoot, I initially wanted to go to Mupe Rocks near Lulworth Cove but it is closed on Monday at this time of year for the MOD to practice blowing things up, so it is not really the kind of place for a hapless photographer to go wandering.

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