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I have been to North Wales umteen times over the years, mainly as a kid. Trouble is i never really appreciated the beauty and sheer brilliance of Snowdonia, and to be fair the whole of North Wales. The stupidity of youth I guess. Once lockdown was fully over it has always been my ambition to […]

It’s been a busy old few weeks on the personal and work front and i’ve not had much chance to get out with my camera. Whilst I had a great time last weekend celebrating a wedding with a lovely couple, my camera stayed at home. I’ve been researching locations that might be suitable for me

This weekend I decided that a walk by the sea was in order. Not sure quite why but it felt like the right thing to do. ‘m lucky in that I can be at the seaside in about 40 minutes if I try real hard, with the North West Coast have a variety of different

Having started the 2022 Project last week I was suitably energised by it to go out again this past weekend. Rather than just turn up and take my chances I decided that the best thing to do was to do a little research. The Youtube recommendation is clearly in my head as up popped a

It is a widely held belief that undertaking a project (or more) at anyone time will help to improve your photography. I would subscribe to this view from my own experiences of undertaking projects, I’ve learned such a lot from them. As I have said many times in my blog that being part of a

I found a new group on Facebook, I guess these things are all about machine learning, and FB matching what it thinks I’ve been looking at with other similar things it thinks I might like. Well in this case it came up trumps, I do like this little valley and so I decided to explore

Foreward This blog post, along with the zine and my website update, is the culmination of a 12 month project. The project is part of a wider group of projects by photographers who all signed up to undertake the Project, as part of group who belong (largely) to Chris Sales’ FotoComm Group. Chris has always

For those who have read the first two parts of this trilogy will know that the third part of the 121 sessions with Chris Sale was planned to be a walk around Lowther Estate. The idea was that this would allow me to practise telling the “story” of a place, without having to scale any

It was 4am, there is only ever one 4 o’clock in a day and its not usually this one. This particular early start would be worth it though, a hike in the fells above the Haweswater Reservoir. Being a city boy at heart it always makes me think when I venture out into the countryside,

I’ve been going to the Lake District for photography for just over 2 years. My first ever workshop was in January 2020, with Chris Sale, and I’ve been back quite a few times since. I think it’s fair to say that my photography has a long way to go, but reflecting on this weekends 121