News and views, recept trips, forthcoming events, workshop reports and any other photography related articles.
Posted on 25th March, 2015
Last year I wrote about my experiences cross country skiing in Norway using a Fujifilm compact camera system - at that time I was using the X-E1 and X-M1. You can read the full article and see the pictures here. A year on, I again found myself enjoying a fabulous few days cross...
Posted on 20th January, 2015
Following on from my photo blog last month - on the immaculate Guggenheim in Bilbao, here is my report on some of the other incredible architectural sights to be enjoyed in this amazing city. OK so we’re slightly encroaching on Guggenheim territory here, including the...
Posted on 1st January, 2015
Last year I decided to join the trend of doing a review of my favourite (best? most significant?) photographs. It seems the time has come again, so here are twelve of my favourite images from 2014. Ask me again in half an hour and I’ll probably give you a different twelve! Once again...
Posted on 23rd December, 2014
Earlier this month, my husband and I spent a few days in Bilbao. It wasn’t a city that we knew very much about but it seemed the perfect fit for our criteria for a pre Christmas break - somewhere easy to get to (direct flight from Manchester), with plenty to see and do but...
Posted on 10th November, 2014
Well it seems I’ve finally blotted my LPOTY copybook ;) and I’m happy to say my Reservoir Bogs image (below) was highly commended in the Your View category of the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. I found out on Friday but the email asked that I keep quiet until Monday...
Posted on 30th October, 2014
You may have noticed I enjoy photographing trees! And, it being Autumn just now, it won’t surprise you to know that trees have very much been my focal point for the last few weeks. Of course I’m far from alone in this, and so it does rather surprise me just what confusion this...
Posted on 14th October, 2014
I’m delighted to be one of a number of photographers taking part in a new Wood Week exhibition at the Joe Cornish galleries in Northallerton. The photography side of the exhibition runs from Friday 17th October until Saturday 8th November. Bolehill Medley - cotton photo rag print in...
Posted on 22nd September, 2014
Earlier this month, I spent a very long and rewarding day in the Yorkshire Dales with Oliver Wright as we start to plan our joint landscape and nature photography workshops for this Autumn. First of all I have to say how wonderful it was to be back in the Dales for the first time since...
Posted on 8th September, 2014
The Yorkshire Wolds have been on my ‘to do’ list for far too long. Anyone who visited the amazing David Hockney exhibition in London a few years ago will have an idea of what a special landscape it is. I’ve also often admired Paul Moon’s beautiful photos of the area. We used to...
Posted on 5th September, 2014
Earlier this week I made my second trip of the summer down to London - this time a flying visit of less than 24 hours. Commuter, Kings Cross Station I had two reasons for going down. Firstly to attend the British Wildlife Photography Awards, having been delighted to find I had...
Posted on 25th August, 2014
Last weekend, Alex Hare and I were joined by a group of six lovely photographers for our North York Moors and Yorkshire Coast weekend workshop. We were based at the Old Manse Hotel in Pickering and arranged to meet everyone there at 12.00 on the Friday. Sleeping alien (AKA a fun tree!)...
Posted on 29th July, 2014
A quick peek out of the window at some ungodly hour assured me that the clouds had not lifted and so there was no ultra early start to visit the cliffs. By the time we got the 8.30am ferry back to Torshavn, there were certainly signs that the weather was beginning to relent, but too...