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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

I’ve been hiking and taking images in The Peak District for about 3 years now, but never quite made an attempt to find the origins of the “Right to Roam” movement. I suspect it was called something different in those days and maybe the legislation is called that, I’m not sure. Either way Kinder Scout

Todays blog post its something very different for me, well at least in terms of my photography it is. Me and the lads had an afternoon (that turned into an evenings drinking) watching Cheadle Town play Eccleshall in the North West Counties league. I’ve been a visitor to the ground on and off for a

I really wasn’t expecting to be able to get out last weekend, or even my non working day. However, the gods of work and car body repairs all conspired in my favour and I was able to get out for a couple of hours on Friday afternoon. Bramhall Hall is a local landmark that I’ve