Sep 25 – Sea Lions and Fur Seals, Otago, New Zealand This is the last batch of seaside wildlife on the Otago coastline, before heading inland to the mountains and glaciers of Mount Cook. The first is a female Sea Lion (Phocartos hookeri) resting up on Victory Beach, which lies at the end of the […]
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Dec 24 – Storm Darragh at Tintagel Haven, Cornwall Well, Storm Darragh blew across here a few days ago with 120km/h gusts, probably more on the cliff tops nearby, but you couldn’t stand up and there was sea spray everywhere – not conducive to taking high-quality pictures on a large diameter lens, even facing away […]
Dec 23 – Waterfalls around Whistler, British Columbia, Canada The chair lifts at Whistler were closed for their winter maintenance in October, having been open all summer – so, instead of going up the mountains, we drove outside the town to a couple of lovely waterfalls. It was really overcast and pouring down all day, but […]
Dec 22 – Gushing Waterfall & Merlin’s Cave at Dusk, Tintagel The little stream that runs through our grounds, which was almost dry during the late summer, has been a raging torrent for that last month of continual rain. It’s quite a sight now. After about another 700m down the valley, it gushes over the cliff top […]
Dec 21 – Sun Sets on 2021, Trevean Cove, Cornwall Well, nearly the end of another weird year – we started off in lockdown and it looks like we’ll end up in lockdown, of some sort, again. Still, we’re all well and we did have a great spring, and then get to Iceland for a fabulous […]
Dec 20 – Winter’s Morning at Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire It was a fresh and clear winter’s morning up at the northern end of the Chiltern Hills last week, on the chalk escarpment at Sharpenhoe. I would usually use my fabulous 24-70mm f/2.8, but the lower limit that I can successfully hand hold is only 1/125-1/160s, which means […]
May 19 – Swans at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire A couple more images from the Wimpole Estate a few weeks ago. This time a Mute Swan struggling to get out of the lake on to the bank – part clambering, part flying. As it was a little brighter, I used 1/1250s, f/8 and ISO 200, and being a little […]
December 19 – Tongariro National Park, North Island, New Zealand We ended our time on the North Island in the Tongariro National Park, home to the three volcanos – Mounts Tongariro (1,978m), Ngauruhoe (2,291m) and Ruapehu (2,797m). Mt Ngauruhoe is the absolute classic, lone volcano shape and was used as Mount Doom in the Lord of […]
December 18 – More Dawn Panoramas over London These are two panoramas from a few days later, using the same techniques to stitch three telephoto images together in to a single wide-angle frame. The cloud layer on the horizon made the whole feel of the photos quite different to the clear skies earlier in the week. This […]
December 17 – Hampstead Heath at Dawn, London I got up early again recently to capture the sunrise on Hampstead Heath. I was waiting for the lovely lighting conditions that one gets on a clear, cold morning – the pre-dawn shots over the London skyline are always great as the colours of the sky change […]
December 16 – Albert Bridge at Dusk, London I caught some great pictures of Albert Bridge across the River Thames at dusk a few months ago, but have only just got around to processing them all. Albert Bridge is one of the best lit of all the Thames bridges and looks exceptional at night. Strangely, […]
November/December 15 – Hampstead Heath at dawn, London I’ve been to Hampstead Heath at dawn half a dozen times now over the last few weeks. Some of the wildlife shots are in my blog below, but the majority of my time has been spent capturing both the fabulous London skyline and the autumn sunrise on […]