Another trip to the Bollin Valley
Once again, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time around my favourite haunt, the Bollin Valley around Hale and Altrincham in deepest Cheshire. I find shooting down here really relaxing and it always produces inspiration of one kind or another.
Nik’d Trees
I’ve been concentrating on shooting trees lately for a wall coverings company in the North West. So having splashed out on Nik’s Complete Collection at Focus last week, I thought I’d have a little peak at HDR Efex Pro.
Hale Head Lighthouse
For one reason and another, I decided the other day that I’d like to make an image of the lighthouse that sits on the North bank of the Mersey estuary near Warrington. I spent some time using Google Maps, Ephemeris and a raft of other tools to try and work out a good vantage point [...]
Going over old ground and still finding new images.
Shot this last night around sunset down by one of my current favourite haunts. Lately I’ve found myself drawn back to shooting around the Bollin Valley more and more, even though I’ve been coming here for years, I still manage to see something new every time and finding it very rewarding pushing myself to go [...]
Snowy Cheshire
Just a quick post with a couple of images I made on my way home the other night. The M6 was in a state of traffic chaos, so I decided to pull off and try and head home via the back roads. It took me a while, but as the temperature plummeted to -12˚C I [...]
Manchester Calendar Updates
I’ve finally managed to get round to ploughing through the backlog of post processing of the images of Manchester I’ve been shooting for the last few months. Mostly HDR and the purists will probably decree that these are over-processed. But from recent experience I have to say that I’ve found that the photograph buying public [...]
Walberswick, Suffolk
I recently spent a couple of weeks on family vacation down on the leafy Suffolk coast in a lovely little town called Walberswick just near Southwold. I went armed with a slightly trimmed down gear bag with the intention of doing some serious landscape work. However what with one thing and another I didn’t get [...]
