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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.
Northern Lights October 2024 A truly X-Class Aurora display A Year of Northern Lights Photography What a time for aurora hunters! The past year has been unforgettable for anyone passionate about northern lights photography. At the time of writing it has been officially announced that the sun has reached the peak of its 11 year solar cycle. Given the incredible aurora display we just had on October 10th following a couple of strong X-class flares, this news is hardly surprising. […]
There has been lots going on around here recently as I attempt to get the site back up and running with lots of new front end cosmetic tweaks and a lot of back end stuff to finally deal with as well.
In Search of Spring (2024) woodland and wildflower photography Hey everyone! How’s it going? This year, my springtime landscape photography was concentrated on capturing the beauty of local woodland wildflowers. I became somewhat obsessed with finding immersive compositions of bluebells and flowering garlic. Due to my storm-chasing duties in the United States, I only had a small window of opportunity to explore when the flowers finally bloomed. Unfortunately, this also meant missing out on what promised to be some spectacular […]
In Search of Winter (2023-2024) photographing the winter that wasn’t Hey everyone! How’s it going? I had high hopes for my winter landscape photography this year. After a successful Autumn that brought a riot of colour and contrasting conditions, my search for Winter landscape photography hit the ground running with a couple of days that saw an inch or two of soft powder dropped across Northumberland. Nothing too dramatic, but enough for a few successful days of shooting. A Disappointing […]
Landscape Photography Review 2023 looking back at my year in photography Hey everyone! How’s it going? As I review my landscape photography of the admittedly doleful year that was 2023, I’m compelled to ask myself 2 questions… Where have I come from? and Where am I going? I suppose I could then also add a third question to that list which would be Where am I on my journey right now? But that question then begs a further two which […]