A select range of my photos is now available from my website and produced and delivered by Pixels.com in a variety of gift-friendly forms; choose between buying a photo as an open-edition print, greetings card or even phone case. The gallery can be viewed here.

Light Work
A select range of my photos is now available directly from Pixels.com in a variety of gift-friendly forms; choose between buying a photo as an open-edition print, greetings card or even phone case.
I’ve just received the final artwork through for the cover of my next book: Mastering Landscape Photography.
Sesquipedalian is a remarkably lengthy word and not one that comes up much in everyday conversation. Or at least not in the conversations that I usually have, though I’m willing to concede that you may routinely use the word with carefree abandon.
Telephoto lens + wet window + out-of-focus streetlights = colourful abstract photo. Who needs Adobe Photoshop when you can do this sort of thing in-camera?
It starts with a cry of alarm cutting through the cool morning air. And then all is mayhem, a confused blur of steel and leather, sweat and blood.
Like most people I’m reluctant to admit making mistakes, but since confession is good for the soul perhaps I should try and come clean about a few things.
Once there were only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Now it seems that there’s a third – there’ll be a new camera along in a minute. The recent pace of change in photography has been head-spinningly rapid and it doesn’t seem as though it will be slowing down any time soon.
One sure way to get immediate respect from your photographic peers is to have a camera bag that, quite frankly, has seen better days. A shiny, new, pristine bag is one that hasn’t been used very often, and so begs the question, just what exactly have you been doing with your time Sunny Jim? Not …
As Rabbie Burns truthfully wrote: ‘The best-laid plans o’ mice an’ men gang aft a-gley’. Well I don’t know about you, but my plans quite often gang aft a-gley. And it’s generally the weather that sticks a metaphorical spanner into the works. It’s either raining when it’s not supposed to or the sky is completely …