Journal

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27 December 2022

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...

16 March 2019

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...

15 October 2021

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,...

20 April 2020

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...

16 April 2020

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...

27 April 2019

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...

16 March 2018

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...

13 March 2018

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...

14 February 2018

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....

4 March 2017

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...

17 November 2015

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...

8 October 2015

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...

15 July 2015

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...

15 June 2015

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...

25 May 2015

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...

7 April 2015

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...

23 March 2014

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...

7 June 2013

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...

15 May 2013

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...

27 March 2013

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...