The delights of the Cotswolds

    The delights of the Cotswolds

    This weekend just gone, my wife and I took the opportunity for a well overdue weekend away and headed down to the Cotswolds for a couple of nights. As usual, it was beyond my abilities to travel without a camera, so in the interests of marital harmony I travelled light – just my Billingham 550 [...]

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    How I plan a landscape shoot

    How I plan a landscape shoot

    Today I thought I’d write a little post around what I put into planning a day of landscape shooting. The first thing I’ll do before a trip like my recent trip to the Lake District is to check the weather, re-check it, and then check it again. The weather in the UK is so varied [...]

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    Winter sunset in Lymm, Cheshire

    Winter sunset in Lymm, Cheshire

    Well I hope you all had a fun filled an over indulged Christmas and New Year. I know I certainly did. The older the kids get, the more fun it seems to be. Can’t imagine that upward trend will continue forever so I make sure I enjoy whilst I can….. So to the photographs. These [...]

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    My favourites from 2011

    My favourites from 2011

    It’s that time again…. In keeping with the last couple of year’s reflections on the year that was (2010 here, and 2009 here) below are my 12 14 favourite images from 2011. Slightly different from these previous entries though, I haven’t picked one image from each month, I’ve simply tried to pick my 12 (which [...]

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    European Christmas Markets, Manchester

    European Christmas Markets, Manchester

    Earlier last week, I took a trip into Manchester to shoot the Christmas markets, of which there are now so many it wasn’t easy deciding where to start! In the end, I plumped for the main European one in Albert Square presided over the an extremely large illuminated Santa perched over the entrance to the [...]

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    Derwent Valley in the High Peaks

    Derwent Valley in the High Peaks

      Further to last week’s post on Stanage Edge in the Peak District,  here’s a couple more images from that weekend that I’ve just processed. Multi-frame HDRs processed in Photomatix Pro and then tweaked in Photoshop and Lightroom. Got quite a few keepers that weekend, so there’ll be more to come…. Shortest post ever I [...]

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    The delights of the Cotswolds
    The delights of the Cotswolds

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    My favourites from 2011

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