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Kit talk. Far too much kit talk.

Posted on January 22, 2019 by

As I have done so little photography in the last two months I hope you’ll forgive me if recount an incident from spring last year. In early May I paid a visit to Ham Wall in the Somerset Levels near … Continue reading →

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Approaching the Landscape – Photography workshop, May 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by

I will be running a residential landscape photography workshop from May 9th – 12th at Trigonos, Nantlle, north Wales. Trigonos is a really excellent venue. For many years it has run a programme of personal growth, yoga and mindfulness workshops, … Continue reading →

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With Seasons Greetings

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

  I’d just like to wish all my readers a happy festive season – whatever their beliefs – and a successful year in 2019. I have a couple of new projects to look forward to in the New Year, and … Continue reading →

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Not soon coming to a bookshop near you……….

Posted on December 9, 2018 by

Earlier this year I wrote about a number of disappointments I had had as a photographer during the previous twelve months (see this post). At the time I wasn’t sure if I should be blogging about my failures but they … Continue reading →

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Putting the environment back into farming.

Posted on October 25, 2018 by

One result of Brexit is that the UK will be leaving the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU’s farming support programme. This, it is argued, has been responsible for much of the loss of biodiversity that has been evident over the … Continue reading →

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Photography on the fly.

Posted on October 16, 2018 by

We’re well into autumn now and I recently decided I needed some photographs of that spectacular fungus, the fly agaric. I was up in north Wales for a couple of days, and a mixed forecast suggested I might get some … Continue reading →

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Dicing with death (part 2)

Posted on September 1, 2018 by

Another recent trip took me up to north Wales. I walked up on to Conway Mountain (Mynydd-y-dref) one morning and found the prospects so promising that in the afternoon I made a repeat visit. I have good memories of Conway … Continue reading →

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Dicing with death (part 1)

Posted on August 26, 2018 by

I’ve always said that August is one of my favourite months for landscape photography and nothing I have seen this year will make me change my mind. It’s just a pity the weather in August seems so consistently bad. I … Continue reading →

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A sad day.

Posted on August 18, 2018 by

August 7th was a sad day. We had been fighting to save our ash tree for more than ten years and on that day we finally lost the battle. We bought the house in 2006 and it felt like a … Continue reading →

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The perils of using an ND filter.

Posted on July 13, 2018 by

In October last year (see this post) I wrote about using a ten-stop neutral density filter at a rather surreal stretch of coastline near Aberdaron on the Llyn Peninsula. As waves came in I used exposures of several seconds to … Continue reading →

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