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Take a View, Landscape Photographer of the Year 2014 (LPOTY)

Each year a great proportion of the landscape photographic community work themselves up into a lather about the annual competition run by Take a View. Set up by Charlie Waite, one of the UK’s most...

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The Tottling Stone

Whilst researching the history of Thirlmere I came across some photographs made prior to the building of the dam, and therefore before the major flooding that created the reservoir. One of the best...

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Thirlmere – Paradise Lost? – An Introduction

In January of 2014 I sat having a coffee with a photographer friend of mine Justin, musing, as we tend to do, about or respective photography meanderings. These discussions are characterised by...

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At last, a local project.

In my five-year journey as into landscape photography I have done my fair share of photographic karaoke, going to popular Lake District locations and making ‘covers’ of the classic images. It has been...

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On Limitations and Creativity

This morning I read a comment on a Facebook post saying simply that the weather recently had sapped any creativity and discouraged photography trips. I paraphrase, obviously, but it’s a sentiment that...

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Shooting the Partial Solar Eclipse at Delamere

I very rarely plan on making any specific image when I go out, preferring to just react to what is there and what I’m seeing. For the eclipse I wanted to get something that fitted in with my Dead Lake...

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Star Wars at Thirlmere / Derwentwater in the Lake District

************************************************************************************************ UPDATE 9TH November 2015 to include location identification from the 3rd trailer and the TV Spot...

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Healing – Hodge Close and Holme Fell

This post is adapted from an original article in On Landscape magazine from December 2015   In 2010, a developing health problem which was affecting my hearing, balance and general wellbeing for the...

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Scenes from the Wasteland

I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to self analyse my photography. In fact, I’d go further than that and say that I categorically avoid it if at all possible. That’s not to say I’m not my...

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A3 print size:               27cm x 27cm A2 print size:               39cm x 39cm Paper:                            Fotospeed Smooth Cotton 300gsm or Fotospeed NST Bright White 315gsm Other info:...

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Book Blog #1: How I prototyped my book idea!

When I first mulled over the idea of producing a book I had no real idea of what was involved. It was an thought that had been tossed around in my mind for quite some time before making it to the stage...

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Book Blog #2: The complexities of pricing

The process of self publishing a book has been an incredibly steep learning curve. The relationships between the choice of materials, the size of the book and the ultimate ‘unit’ price is not a...

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Book Blog #3: Collaborating with Joe Cornish and Dom Conlon

During book blogs 1 & 2 I’ve covered the various aspects of prototyping books and also how I went about pricing the standard edition of Healing. In this blog I just want to talk about the two...

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Book Blog #4 – On Press

This blog is a little late in coming, for which I apologise. The truth is that I found the whole pre-order crescendo quite emotionally draining! The numbers of pre-orders were beyond my wildest...

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Book Blog #5: Post, packing and stock level update!

Just a short post to talk through the process of post and packing of the book. Late on Tuesday 23rd we received two palettes containing the 500 book shipment. 56 boxes of books to be precise, each...

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