News & Updates
We Will Remember – World War Two Veterans
Sadly, no one knows how many World War Two veterans are alive today, they are a generation that has seen profound change, several speak...
Highland Ponies in Glen Prosen
It was a photoshoot I had long wanted to undertake. To be in the Scottish Highlands with a ghillie, deer stalking. But not...
A Day with a Lady Falconer
Hunting with a hawk has a long and distinguished history going back some three thousand years and is still practised as an art form,...
Nick Orr – Feather Pictures
Each of Nick’s pictures is created from just a single feather, which must be cut and formed before being mounted on artboard, ready for...
Hunting Horns showing solidarity for NHS staff and key workers
Few of us waking on the first day of January 2020, to a new year and a new decade, could have ever believed what...
The Country Gent Podcast
Recently I was exposed to a media that, for me at least, had slipped past me a little, audio. This has had much the...
What camera did you use to take that?
What camera did you use to take that? It is a question I am often asked, and I am sure one that many fellow photographers...
Stormy sky on the battlefield
The dark stormy sky with the sun falling, almost glinting, on the white graves stones I know would make a memorable photograph. Quickly grabbing my...
Goodbye Somme; you faithful friend
Losing a dog can be a traumatic experience and as someone who has gone through this many times, believe me, it gets no easier....
In the studio with some dogs
The dogs, including a sixteen-week-old puppy, needed to be photographed for editorial and website use. The requirement was for all the images to be...
A portrait of today’s photography
With the arrival of the digital age, the workload of the photographer changed, out went the darkroom & chemical processes, replaced by computer processing...
A published magazine cover
To quote a phrase the right place at the rights time, but with the right camera and right lens! But to see the end result I...
Press and Promotion Photography
But it had to be shot at twilight, at very last light to give the images a set of dark tones, no white or pale coloured...
Have you enjoyed the good summer?
So after what appears to be a string of poor or wet summers locally, no one can argue that this year we have not...
The Battle of Frezenberg
By late morning on 13th May 1915 the Commanding Officer, his Regiment Sergeant Major and two Squadron Leaders were dead. As reported by...
I do photograph more than the countryside
The great problem with a passion is you can get carried away with it and labelled by it! This has happened a few times in recent...
Meet Islay our new dog & team member
A new dog can be exciting; but a new puppy around the home can be hard work and exciting, especially is it is lively...
A Special Day Shooting Clays
A telephone call from regular clients at Mouse House UK, a specialist marketing, design and branding company, asked if I could photograph a days...
Excuse me, but what breed is your dog?
But I still have a chuckle when I hear 'Excuse me, but what breed is your dog?' It may sound like a line from...
Barry Atkinson & Spider’s Appeal
If you are tired of the never-ending requests for sponsorship; then take a look at the work of Barry Atkinson and Spider's Appeal; then...