In the beginning…
It all started a long time ago with a Kodak Instamatic. Then came an SLR, and experimenting with countless rolls of film. (Mistakes were plenty, though of course I had to wait a week or so to find that out. Film was an interesting – and expensive way – to learn how to be a photographer.) Jump forward a few decades and that outlay and hard work obviously paid off. I’m now a landscape photographer, who lives and works in the county of Northumberland in north east of England. Since turning professional I’ve written over thirty-five books about photography. I frequently work on commission for organisations such as the Northumberland National Park Authority, shooting seasonal landscape imagery. I also run popular bespoke one-to-one landscape and macro photography workshops throughout the year. Oh, and I shoot digitally these days…
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And now for something completely different, a man carrying a camera made out of plastic. I’ve used quite a few…
I was up in the Cheviot Hills the other day, climbing a particularly craggy and overgrown slope, when I realised…
On another post I wax lyrical about plastic cameras and the puzzlingly important place they have in my equipment checklist….