Now available for order."From the margins" photographs from the farmland within a one mile radius of my home in Northumberland. They focus on the marginal land around the fields and the edges, the intimate details, the micro landscapes of my surroundings. 40 pages, 210x210 square, B&W throughout£10 inc p&p UK (13€ Europe, $16 USA) PayPal … Continue reading “From The Margins“
Last week Storm Otto passed through our area, and though it was much less windy than forecast it still resulted in some great photographic opportunities.
These photographs feature the farmland landscape within a one mile radius of my home. It focuses on the smaller, intimate details, the micro landscapes of my surroundings. It approaches the often seen, and the mundane with a fresh eye, looking for the interaction between man and farmland and how most of our countryside is a … Continue reading Farmland Details: the countryside in winter
We recently went to explore a section of the Coquet we’d seen on the map but not visited before. It was a typical July day of high humidity and summer clouds. Lovely views down to the river and across to Holystone and Sharperton with Agrimony in swaths on the river bank.
The sunlight was catching these stones set in the river bed, the water sparkling.
I’ve been taking part in an Instagram hashtag #scenefromhome. These are some of my daily interior photos posted up over the last few weeks. It’s made me look carefully for subjects and especially for interesting light around the house. All photos taken with my Fujifilm XT-2 and a variety of lenses.
The walled garden in January. We are lucky to rent a cottage in the grounds of a large victorian hall with a walled garden to which we have access and I thought this could make a good subject for a winter project. A further challenge would be to photograph only in black and white to … Continue reading The walled garden in January
The Alnwick Garden was created by the Duchess of Northumberland, on land adjacent to Alnwick Castle. The land was originally a garden but had been undeveloped for many years. It now has the largest collection of European plants in the UK and the largest Japanese cherry orchard in the world consisting of 329 trees. In one of the … Continue reading Barbara Hepworth – “Ascending Form (1958)” in The Alnwick Garden
At this time of year the local farmers are cutting and baling "haylage" for winter fodder. It can be a chancy business if the weather breaks before it's been baled. The dark storm clouds on these photos luckily came to nothing. (Fujifilm X-T20 | Fujinon 35mm f2)
a lens in the landscape 