It was a warm early September evening, and I headed out towards Stamford for a walk in the country park at Burghley House estates, armed with my camera, a couple of lenses and of course my trusty old Manfrotto tripod. It was a gorgeous time of the day (between 6.00pm and 7.30pm), and despite having to dodge the numerous por ... View Full Details

This photograph of the famous Cathedral was taken looking up at the vast stone work on the ceiling and walls. I think it clearly shows just how tall this Cathedral is, and also how small it makes you feel when you’re standing inside. The long shutter speed used to capture the detail of the masonary and stained glass, ... View Full Details

The first week of June and a Clematis in our garden flowered into full bloom. As I moved in closer to compose this macro shot the image of the pollen and petals reminded me of underwater coral, gently swaying in the current of a warm ocean. That’s one of things I love so much about close up macro photography, how the ... View Full Details

This small unusual beetle was found crawling through the undergrowth on the shores of Rutland Water near Stamford. The bright sunshine at the time meant the body glistened brightly and caught my eye when I was taking some close up macro shots. View Full Details

Summer in the French Alps, and a couple of cable car rides up high above Chamonix will take you as close as you can get to the summit of Mont Blanc, the highest Mountain in Europe, without putting on crampons. This photo was taken shortly after dawn at around 7.30am and you can see the early morning mist in the valley botto ... View Full Details

…it certainly produced a delight! This shot of a summer’s sunset on the Northumbrian coastline near Bamburgh castle was take following a particular bad stormy day in August. The evening cleared up and helped to produce this stunning sky during the last few minutes of daylight. My eldest son Jack, can be seen pla ... View Full Details

A flock of Knot flying in to the waters edge, the birds are looking for feeding grounds as the tide turns on the Northumbrian coastline. All I had to do was sit and wait for a few minutes on the beach in order to get this photograph. The incoming tide ensured that the birds would eventually get closer to my lens as the minu ... View Full Details

The winter of 2009/2010 brought snow to virtually the whole of the UK, sometimes for prolonged periods of time. This photograph was taken during December of 2009, on a clear sunny morning after a night filled with heavy snowfall. The sun was just starting to make it’s warm presence felt which helped to cast low, long ... View Full Details

A intimate photograph of a fresh head of wheat growing in the field. I love the springtime lushness and the strong green colour that this image portrays. When seen at such close range you can’t help but be amazed at the complexities of items found all around us in nature. View Full Details

An extreme close up image of a freshly fallen sycamore leaf. The image can’t help but illustrate the complexities of the object and it’s natural structure. The veins of the leaf remind of aerial photographs of whole townships, like motorways, roads and tracks crossing the land along an irregular coastline. The p ... View Full Details

A warm evening walk out in to my local countryside, resulted in an interesting portrait shot of this old ancient ash tree that stands in Torpel Manor Field – once the site of an important medieval holding. The low sunlight seemed to light up the tree in a warm orange glow, illustrating each and every twisted branch. The s ... View Full Details

Whilst spending a couple of days away on the north Norfolk coast during the Summer of 2009, I noticed this lonely ladybird sitting on the wet beach at Sheringham. I felt it made a nice visual contrast against the hard shiny pebbles, which also seemed to emphasise the minute scale of the insect compared with the vast expanse ... View Full Details

One of the early signs of Spring arriving after long a Winter is the arrival of the Snowdrop, a delicate flower found on the forest floor. This photograph was taken in my local woodland during a Sunday morning stroll up to the local farm shop. I crouched down low on the damp forest ground and got the camera lens within 5cm ... View Full Details

Macro (close up) photographs of items found in nature is always one of my favourite types of photography. I’m always amazed by the extreme detail revealed in natural objects when you attach a macro lens to your camera, it often produces stunning images. This shot illustrates the textural detail of a teasel head, found ... View Full Details

Whilst out walking one summers evening along the Torpel Way, near my home in the Cambridgeshire countryside, I stumbled upon this delightful view of a young woodland copse. The low, end of the day sunshine, was just at the right angle in the sky to illustrate the scene with dappled light which added to the final image. View Full Details

Another close up photograph of an alien-like insect, sitting on the pollen of a wild daisy. The insect seems like a monster, when in reality it’s less than 7mm in length. But the bright sunlight really makes the back of the creature glisten, with the strong green and red colour contrasting nicely with the yellow and w ... View Full Details

A break in the rainy weather at dusk resulted in a dramatic sky over an almost empty beach on the Northumbrian coast. I spent the last few hours of daylight capturing this and other images on the coastline near Bamburgh Castle. After a day of unsettled weather it soon became a calm still evening, Jack and Oliver joined me o ... View Full Details

It was almost Haloween when I spotted this ladybird crawling across the kitchen floor. I picked it up and placed it on one of the kid’s pumpkins. I grabbed the camera, put on a macro lens and took this picture. I love the colour of the ladybird together with the pumpkin, it seems to make the white and black markings s ... View Full Details