Photoblogs
The Foxes of Crag Lough
15 December 2020
In February 2019 we headed to a snow-covered Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland national park, and met a family of foxes hunting on the frozen lakes.
Autumn mists on Bristol Docks
7 December 2020
Autumn in Bristol means mists rising from its waterways and settling in its many valleys, and this November provided some excellent misty nights and foggy mornings for photos of the historic Harbourside and city docks.
On Garth Mountain
14 May 2020
Last summer I popped over to South Wales for a short cycle tour through the Brecon Beacons and The Valleys and down to Cardiff, and shot the sunset and sunrise from The Garth above the Taff Valley.
Fridays For Future: London Climate Strike in the rain
27 September 2019
On a rainy Friday in September 2019 School Strike For Climate and Culture Declares Climate & Econological Emergency gathered under colourful umbrellas for a Fridays For The Future rally in Trafalgar Square.
Winter on the Tyne Quays
3 March 2019
In February, while the weather was still suitably frosty, I popped into Newcastle and Gateshead for a few days, to shoot one of my favourite cityscapes: the Tyne Quays and the great bridges that join the twin riverside cities.
Armadillo reflections: autumn in Glasgow
20 December 2018
I had to pop into Glasgow in early November for an event at the Scottish Events Campus. It's an odd cityscape, with many flaws, in the former industrial docklands on the River Clyde, but it makes a fine photography subject.
Pedal On UK Parliament: the National Funeral
13 October 2018
Pedal On Parliament, aka the National Funeral For The Unknown Cyclist, was a demonstration ride, rally and "die in" organised by Stop Killing Cyclists in London.
Make The Lane: people-protected bike lanes
April 2018
Make The Lane was a series of actions by Active Travel Now in London highlighting how inadequate painted cycle lanes are by creating "people-protected bike lanes" during morning rush hours.
Lubnaclach: the cottage on the moor
11 Feb 2018
Take the train from Glasgow to Fort William and you will cross the vast peat bog and post-glacial moraine landscape of Rannoch Moor in the West Highlands, where you might catch a glimpse of a very lonely, isolated ruin, the cottage at Lubnaclach.
Cabot Tower: Bristol from Brandon Hill
4 Feb 2018
I was asked for my top Bristol recommendations for a first time visitor. One of them has to be climbing the Cabot Tower on Brandon Hill. I’ve not tired of this free folly viewpoint since finding it as a first year student 15 years ago.
Destitution Road again: return to Fain House
20 Jan 2018
The Destitution Road crosses high boggy moorland in Wester Ross, under An Teallach mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. My brain keeps wanting to autocorrect it to the Desolation Road, for its remote and isolated situation on empty, open moors — empty except for Fain House.
A winter supersaver to York
7 May 2017
When Virgin Trains offered £5 advance tickets over the winter, we had to take a trip to York to spend a couple of dark evenings exploring the Shambles of rickety mediaeval timbered houses and stone gateways in the densely packed streets old city centre.
Lines in the landscape at Goring Gap in the Chiltern Hills
26 March 2017
A later summer evening walk in the Thames Valley at Goring Gap, where the river and the trains on the Great Western Railway slip between the chalk hills on the edge of the Oxfordshire and Berkshire Chilterns.
A misty autumn morning on lake Windermere
4 March 2017
Windermere had never impressed me as much as the northern Lake District, but with some time to spare in 2016 after a November meeting in the north west, I headed there to look for late-running autumn colours and morning mists in the Lakeland valleys.
Slea Head Ride to Kerry’s Dunquin Pier
9 October 2016
When I was nine or ten the family toured the wild, remote Atlantic west coast of Ireland, and I had vague memories and a grainy scan of a print of an outlandish road winding down steep storm-shaped rocky cliffs to a concrete pier, so when I was in Kerry last month I had to ride out there to re-find and shoot again this fantastical landscape.
Ships and stunts at Bristol Harbour Festival 2016
July 2016
Bristol Harbour Festival is an annual celebration of the city's maritime heritage and contemporary culture on its historic docks.
Flags and Signals: Pride In London 2016
25 June 2016
The annual LGBT pride parade in 2016 happened 2 weeks after the Orlando nightclub shooting and 2 days after the Brexit vote, accounting for some of the themes of the day.
IWA Canalway Cavalcade 2016
May 2016
On bank holiday weekend, boaters congregated at Little Venice on the Paddington Branch of the Grand Union Canal for the Inland Waterways Association Canalway Cavalcade.
Storr Lochs: the hidden funicular on Skye
27 March 2015
Hidden on the Isle of Skye, just a little way off the tourist trail at the Storr Lochs, is a seaside funicular railway — but rather than an ornate Victorian tourist attraction, this is rather more industrial.
Eclipse over Edinburgh
20 March 2015
In March 2015 we were treated to a solar eclipse, and while it was only a partial eclipse in the UK, we managed to head north to Edinburgh to get a pretty good look at it.
10 hours at Level 39: London Docklands
8 March 2015
While photographing an event high in the One Canary Wharf skyscraper I caught these pictures of the London cityscape and the fast-developing Docklands business district.
Under the hills of Torridon
9 March 2014
There aren't many more stunning parts of the country than Torridon in Wester Ross on the coast of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, where the great sandstone mountains rise above the Scots Pines in the grassy glens, and the rocky shores of the Atlantic.
Lots Road Power Station
1 March 2014
Between my flat in Battersea and office in South Kensington is Lots Road Power Station, the derelict London Underground generating station on the Thames at Chelsea Riverside, a scene that I've had the chance to shoot again and again, in all different lights and seasons.
Stop Killing Cyclists: "Die In" at TfL
29 November 2013
Following a series of deaths of cyclists in London, including on mayor Boris Johnson's blue painted cycle lanes, Stop Killing Cyclists organised a huge evening rush hour "die in" protest outside Transport for London head office on Blackfriars Road.
Crossing the Moorfoot Hills
22 October 2013
On a glorious sunny spring day in 2011, I crossed the Moorfoot Hills in Scotland's Southern Uplands, collecting these photos of the high moorland landscapes and deep valleys dotted with old drystone sheep stells.
On the canals at Castlefield
13 January 2013
The world's first industrial canal and the world's first passenger railway converge on the Castlefield neighbourhood of Manchester, in a visually impressive tangle of basins and docks, steel viaducts and brick arches, warehouses and modern apartment buildings.
Edge of the Vale
6 January 2013
In the summer I spent a few evenings and early mornings shooting the hills surrounding the lush agricultural valley of the River Stour — the Blackmore Vale — in North Dorset and South Somerset.
der Telespargel
30 December 2012
In December 2007 I visited Berlin, and was fascinated by the Fernsehturm – the television tower in Alexanderplatz, Germany's tallest structure – and the effect it had on the cityscape and skyline.
Winter in Keswick
25 December 2012
In February 2010 I spent a long weekend in Keswick, in England's Lake District, exploring the wild woods around a frozen Derwent Water and walking over the snow-covered fells around Castlerigg Stone Circle..
The standing stones of Machrie Moor
21 October 2012
On the west side of Arran — the "Scotland in miniature" island of the Firth of Clyde — you might find the path to Machrie Moor, and there the strange array of stone circles and megaliths that dot the landscape.
Hill climb
7 October 201
I get my photos of big landscapes from high on hills by cycling up them. Here are some photos of others doing the same.
At Abereiddy
30 September 2012
Walking along the coast path of St David's Head in the Pembrokeshire National Park, one headland stands out for its clearly man-made feature: the squat tower at Abereiddy, standing above the quarried Blue Lagoon cove.
Lines in the Landscape: The Settle and Carlisle Railway
9 September 2012
I like the ways that railways fit into the landscape — the mix of bold lines, elegant curves, symmetrical structures and lush green earthworks, embedded in big landscapes — like the the Settle to Carlisle Line in the Yorkshire Dales national park.
On Calton Hill
2 September 2012
A five minute walk from Edinburgh's Waverley railway station, Calton Hill is always the first place I head when arriving, to take in the amazing cityscape views from beside the monuments of the World Heritage City.
The Crinan Canal
15 July 2012
The Crinan Canal is a unique waterway on the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland, cutting through the Kintyre Peninsula to allow access from Glasgow to the Hebrides and coastal communities for the boats that were once a lifeline.
The Derwent Dams
1 July 2012
In the high, wet hills of the Dark Peak in Derbyshire's Peak District, the Upper Derwent Valley collects the water running down from the spongy moors and through the plantation forests into a series of huge reservoirs.
A82: the remarkable road on Rannoch Moor
17 June 2012
The A82 is a very unusual road, not just for the spectacular boggy moorland and mountain landscape that it traverses at Rannoch Moor above Glen Coe in the West Highlands of Scotland, but also for the shapes it makes itself in that landscape.
Purdown Transmitter
10 June 2012
The Purdown Transmitter, the BT Tower standing high on the hill in Stoke Park above North Bristol, is one of those subjects I've managed to shoot again and again over the years, capturing it in all seasons, lights and conditions.
Edinburgh Castle
16 February 2012
I'm a big fan of the cityscape and skyline of Edinburgh, with its excellent topology, and the fortress standing over the city high on Castle Rock is both an excellent part of that cityscape, and an excellent place to see the rest of it from.
Cwmorthin
11 February 2012
Cwmorthin is one of the many huge disused slate quarries and mines around Blaenau Ffestiniog in Snowdonia, a mile walk up into the Moelwyn Mountains and arranged in an array of ruined buildings, rusting machinery and tottering scree piles around a lake in a bowl in the hills.
Burst of bicycle couples
8 February 2012
A short set of photos I took in the autumn on Zeeburgereiland, one of the artificial islands off Amsterdam's waterfront, with three silos standing alone in a big empty wasteland awaiting regeneration of the former industrial area.
Haystacks
26 October 2011
Not one of the biggest hills in England's Lake District, but one with fine views over the Buttermere valley on a sunny day in summer.
The battle for Blackfriars
Autumn 2011
In 2011, Transport for London's plans to remove cycle lanes and raise speed limits at Blackfriars Bridge led to a backlash including "flashrise" protests, and eventually to a change in policy which paved the way for new protected cycling infrastructure.
The Moine House
7 April 2011
In the far northern Highlands of Scotland, a great boggy moor, The Moine, spreads for miles over the hills, and one remote ruined cottage rises from the moss on the lonely coast road.
The Hutong of Beijing
5 March 2011
After Beijing was established as a new capital, the Forbidden City was soon surrounded by new neighbourhoods — dense and chaotic blocks of buildings — the hutongs. Now they're fast being demolished or gentrified.
Winter on Helmsdale Harbour
26 February 2011
In the winter of 2010, heavy snows fell across the UK, including on the small fishing village of Helmsdale on the Moray Firth coast of the far northern Highlands of Scotland.
Night bus
21 February 2011
A few observations on the N3 night bus home from central London to Herne Hill in 2008/09 led to this post, a little different from the others here, telling some stories from the night buses — with lots of photos of course.
White Christmas in Dorset
16 February 2011
December 2010 brought heavy snow to the UK, and I captured it on the fields and woods of North Dorset's agricultural Blackmore Vale.