A while ago I wrote a piece for Landscape Photography Magazine exploring the reasons that sunrise and sunset mean so much to us as photographers and how to get the best out of photographing in the fantastic light available at these times. "I think I have turned into one of [...]
Wow, what an incredible game of basketball. The Eagles have yet another piece of silverware to add to their already burgeoning trophy cabinet, but it was an end-to-end, fast-paced finale with breath-taking skill from both sides. It could certainly have gone either way and we were on the edge of [...]
The Sun grinned past the Moon at me this morning :-D The solar system is an amazing place. It just so happens that the Moon is about 400 times smaller than the Sun and 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun - about a quarter of a million [...]
BBC Town Moor commission: An image from a couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of the project. This shot of a black-headed gull in fantastic morning light was taken from Cow Hill on the Town Moor, looking across to the town centre. Newcastle United's St. James' Park football ground (right hand [...]
I followed this white-headed capuchin monkey for a while in forest near my accommodation at Drake Bay, Corcovado National Park Exactly a year ago, I arrived in Costa Rica's steamy, tropical bird and animal paradise. UK weather was pants, as it usually is at this time of year and [...]
The D3200 captures lovely tones throughout this image of Isabella Jake's sand castle gets the hoof - shot with the help of a bit of pop-up flash I know the D3200 isn't a particularly recent camera - indeed if it was, I wouldn't have bought it [...]
Here's the film I made of the inaugural race held in Northumberland this year. There's more info and photos in this post and the race was expertly organised by Total Racing International. You can sign up for 2015's race at www.stoswaldsultra.com. See you there!
Today, 850 little elves ran round the Metro Centre and Eldon Square in Gateshead / Newcastle, helping Santa deliver presents for local charities. I filmed the event, too and I'll put some clips up shortly and ultimately will publish the film once it's finished. I'm the official photographer / filmmaker [...]
Peek-a-boo, rhino style. I see you now, but will I see you in a decade? Rhinos are back in the news, for the usual bad reasons. Poaching has gone crazy again and the worry is that at the current rate, in a few years' time, more animals will [...]
Male urban peregrine falcon - a shot like this taken at 1200mm (600mm + 2x converter) simply can't be taken without a tripod. Nikon D800E, 600mm f/4 lens, 1/400sec , f/11, ISO 1600, Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 carbon fibre tripod with Wimberley Head Tripod? Monopod? Gorillapod? Baffled? Read on! Whether [...]
