Landscapes
Read MoreSnowdonian memories
taken on a day out hiking Snowdon (up the pyg trail and down the miners trail) with my father. a clear day but the UV creates a sense of depth in the image with the colours washing out with distance. don't know who the couple are but hopefully they had a great day out on the hills
Tree on a hill
the first landscape image taken with my Fuji GFX medium format camera.
Just a few minutes from home, it was a misty day so i set out for another photo.. but after that failed from too much mist I took a detour down some un explored lanes and came across this lone tree at the edge of the mist.
I don't think my previous camera would have really captured the dynamic range of the mist with the light and the shadows. something very cinematic about the images the camera produces.Avenue of the king
Through work I spend a lot of time in Paris and tend to stay in Versailles. just a short walk from the hotel is the palace and the gardens.. whilst these are clearly stunning, I prefer the landscaped parkland that surrounds the palace and this is a long avenue that runners and dog walkers use each day to clear their minds and prepare for the day ahead.
little falls
on a trip through the american north east to experience the fall.
absolutely stunning but quite a challenge to capture on photos without the contrast of greenery to highlight the flame reds and and golden yellows. this was an area that offered a glimpse of the greenery alongside the turning leaves.Scottish Crofting
so much of the scottish coast is beautiful, isolated but not really that spectacular. this captures a typical photography day for me walking with a very heavy pack of camping gear and camera equipment. hiking out to a spot that is lovely to be in, but lacks any real drama or focus..
but perhaps a great spot for building a home though :)amongst the bluebells
I honestly don't recall where this image was taken, but I was actually out photographing wildlife with a pretty large lens, I think my 600mm.
after following a buzzard across a few fields I found this scene and knew I had to walk a good few miles back top the car to get a different lens.. by then the light had softened and improved also so it was well worth the effort.northumbrian tree
Another image of the tree in the wall. this time taken to maximise the drama.
An unusual focus stack of the foreground, the tree and the wall leading away, taken at relatively wide apertures but then stacked together to limit the focus only where I wanted. Could perhaps have been taken with a tilt shift, but the focus line is not quite straight and I wanted a subtle fall off that the tilt shifts rarely give.Black Cuillen Ridgeline
an epic setting that doesn't really capture well on film.
the black Cullen ridge on the Isle of Skye. I traversed it some years ago in my naive foolhardy days when I felt immortal. this trip I camped out overnight to get the early morning sunlight. I was trapped in my tent all night by rutting deer right outside the tent but the sunlight in the morning (after 5 days of content rain) was well worth the restless night.
this image is a single 24mm framing, but about 6 exposures to focus stack and get the light as desired.
the first images has both a rainbow and a golden eagle flying around, but even straight out of the camera they looked like they had been photoshopped in so they remain in my un processed archive.
of note is this image needed exposure bracketing but also polarisation on the lens to cut through the haze. I still tend to use graduate filters rather than processing HDR though, feels more like real photography to get it right in camera somehow. but sometimes like this the range is just to too much and you require both.woodland tunnel
a local walk. perhaps one of my favourites straight from my home.
the walk has four sections, first a walk across fields down to the river, then along the river stopping occasionally to see if there are kingfishers to photograph. then this section through the woodland, bluebells in spring wild garlic in autumn, then along a meandering section of the river with lots of pools and weirs.
it finishes conveniently at a pub :)Glen Garry Cairns
I think I was rather fortunate on this particular day.. the weather was bright but stormy and each framing had the sky in just the right position for me.. I must have been good the week before!
I wish I have left a bit more space on the left of the image for the river/loch but my tripod had broken and I was left to handhold at my widest focal length rather than setup a panorama.
sometimes you need to just make do and tae the photo you can rather than the one you really want.Glen Garry
the sunlight on the foreground trees brings balance to the image and the sky. it was only after taking the image that I noticed the two trees in the centre perfectly frame the bridge on the loch.. was tempted to process the bridge out but it is what it is.. i don't like to mess too much with the images.
the sun awakens all
a morning i remember well.. stags rutting the night before and I saw a Scottish wildcat out in the wild on my way back to the car.
this image was a nightmare to take and process as I wanted flare, but not too much and the lens behaviour of my 24mm didn't allow for both.. so I switched to a 50mm lens and took a panorama instead allowing me to have the intense sun flare without loosing the saturation across the whole image.great gable panorama
taken on a walk across england coast to coast. it took 5 days camping along the route. I would highly recommend it to anyone its not too challenging and the scenery you get to absorb yourself in is simply stunning.
obviously I had to limit the amount of camera equipment i carried (no tripod even!!)
this was from day 2 in the heart of the lake district.in the still of night
one of the most photographed castles in the world.. eileen donan on the west coast of scotland.
difficult to compose something original that hasn't been taken 100 times before..
but I needed cheering up one trip after a solid week of grey clouds and no photos so this felt like an easy keeper to reset the clock as it were..
taken at night with an ND64 filter and 45min shutter. as you can see the clouds are still showing they were that still.