Berrow Beach, Somerset – location guide
Posted on May 7th, 2012
One aspect of photography that I find most appealing and challenging is finding my own unique view of a place, particularly at coastal locations that receive lots of visitors. So when I visited Berrow Beach I sought to find something different from the well known pictures of it. I walked along the vast expanse of [...]
Glastonbury Tor: photographs from the Somerset Levels
Posted on January 29th, 2012
Since I began taking landscape photographs Glastonbury Tor has been one of my most frequently visited subjects. The atmosphere of misty sunrises on the Somerset Levels is very special indeed; it’s the reason so many legends are associated with the area. I have been fortunate enough to capture Glastonbury Tor on many such mornings and [...]
2011 in pictures
Posted on January 1st, 2012
To mark the end of 2011 and the start of a new year, here’s a run through of my favourite images from each month of last year: January The fields on this side of Burrow Mump flood regularly. As the snow of the Christmas period melted it left plenty of water in the fields way [...]
Somerset Levels – location guide
Posted on November 22nd, 2011
The flat landscape of the Somerset Levels stretches for miles, broken only by odd hills here and there. Glastonbury Tor is the most well known of these hills and it’s easy to see why; on misty mornings it appears like an island in an ethereal white sea. Whilst this makes for a good photographic opportunity [...]
Semerwater, North Yorkshire – location guide
Posted on October 23rd, 2011
After five days of overcast Yorkshire weather I was beginning to think I might return from a week in Wensleydale without seeing the sun. A sudden break in the weather meant I would have a few hours’ light to play with so I earmarked Semerwater, the largest lake in North Yorkshire, as my location. The [...]
Review: Somerset Art Weeks 2011
Posted on October 10th, 2011
What feels like aeons ago at the start of 2011, I started planning my part in a group exhibition in Glastonbury Galleries as part of Somerset Art Weeks. Ruth Morland, the owner of the galleries, invited me along with six other artists to hold an exhibition for just over two weeks. The range of styles [...]
South West… ish – my new photographic exhibition running in September
Posted on August 8th, 2011
My latest exhibition of landscape photographs is being held in Glastonbury Galleries from 17th September to 2nd October as part of Somerset Art Weeks (SAW) 2011. Entitled “South West… ish” the exhibition will feature new images from the bottom left corner of the UK – places such as Dartmoor, Exmoor and the Somerset Levels through [...]
Epson R2880 plus Continuous Ink System woes: a solution!
Posted on May 27th, 2011
After spending many hours trying to find a way around a problem with my Epson R2880 printer and CIS I finally found a solution which saved me a lot of hassle! Because of a faulty CIS chip on the Photo Black (PK) cartridge I had to gaffa tape the Matte Black (MK) chip to the [...]
Going Coastal
Posted on April 15th, 2011
My favourite colour is green, which is a good thing because right now everything is turning various shades of it. This happens year on year at roughly the same time but it never gets tiresome. It seems nature has the timing just right in order to keep us humans entertained. If only TV producers could [...]
It’s February already!
Posted on February 20th, 2011
Since Christmas I have been very busy promoting my pictures to local businesses. After much web coding work I have completed my online shop where you can purchase greeting cards and prints. My greeting cards and mounted prints are also now available in a growing number of shops throughout Somerset. With all of this going [...]