As autumn seems to be on the way out, with mornings growing colder and trees shedding the last of their leaves for another year, I’m left reflecting how I seem to have spent the best bits in the car on the way to work rather…
Following on from my previous two posts on hiking the Laugavegur trail last year, this post contains my favourite images from that trip. We did the hike back in August 2018 (having started planning in the previous January), so this is clearly a good few…
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been spending more time trying to photograph more rugged places, and so I’ve been making trips to places like Snowdonia, the Lake District or the Peak District in pursuit of landscape photography. As much as the subject matter,…
It’s been a good few years since we’ve had any decent snow here in Bedfordshire, especially snowfall coinciding with me being able to get out and shoot in it. So last weekend, when a large portion of the UK had a good covering, I took…
As controversial a subject that bluebell photography can be amongst the UK landscape photography community (well, not bluebells per se, but shooting seasonally obvious subject matter with little imagination or thought for originality), they’re still a highlight of my photography calendar as they are indicative…
Late last year, I wrote my first post on infrared photography that attempted to cover the practical aspects of using a Hoya R72 IR filter to capture IR images. This post is a follow up, and is more focussed on the processing side of things using Lightroom. I’m…
Around this time of year, I always enjoy looking back over the past year to think about what I achieved photographically and consider what I want to try and accomplish over the coming year. I didn’t have a chance to pull this together before the…
I find myself really drawn to infrared photography. There is something about the naturally high contrast black and white images that IR can produce that just aren’t possible when shooting normally, with the visible spectrum. This is especially true in the landscape where foliage can…