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The Colours Of The North Yorkshire Moors

August 29, 2012 • 2 Comments

One of the many benefits of living where I do in Scarborough is that I am just on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, one of the UK's 15 National Parks. Stretching over 554 square miles the area offers, in my opinion, some of the most breathtaking landscapes the UK has to offer, from tranquil valleys to rugged moorland throughout the year there...

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Harvest Time

August 08, 2012 • 2 Comments

My style of photography often includes a strong foreground, I always look for something to give a scale to an image and to lead the eye into the rest of the landscape. Around here we have some lovely countryside, a lot of it farmland and some great curving and undulating fields which should make a good photo but which usually lack a decent foregrou...

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A Lucky Shot

July 30, 2012 • 1 Comment

I'd had my eye on some straw bales in a field on my way to work and was waiting for the light. One morning the light was just right and I got there to find the farmer had moved them! This evening I was diverted a different way home as the A64 was closed and luck was obviously on my side as I came across this scene, with exactly the right dark clou...

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A Festival Of Yorkshire

July 29, 2012 • 1 Comment

On Thursday 2nd August I will be exhibiting some of my photographs as part of the Festival of Yorkshire in my hometown of Scarborough, on the East Coast. This summer Scarborough will host a truly unique five-day festival to celebrate all that is great about Yorkshire. “A Festival of Yorkshire - Scarborough”, supported by Welcome to Yorkshir...

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Land's End

June 26, 2012 • 2 Comments

I've wanted to take this shot for a while but it needed a specific set of circumstances which hadn't come together for me before tonight. The steps down to the beach in Scarborough's North Bay flood at high tide. I knew that a long exposure of these might work but it needed a high tide, and a featureless grey sky to frame it. I've tried a couple o...

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