Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

We’re coming into the final week of shooting for Extreme lakeland and its been a roller coaster of a journey ( every journey though is described as a roller coaster , suppose it helps to build tension , ooh , what happened ? !!). But it has been great , battling against all odds and […]

Extreme Scotland

I have just realised that I haven’t written a blog all year , partly I’ve been busy but also partly the way FB works has changed and the posts don’t get out to the same numbers that they used to but I felt I had to do a blog about the Extreme Scotland book that […]

How to become an adventure sports photographer

  I got an email recently from an aspiring photographer , I’ve had this sort of question a few times and it goes something like this :   ” how do you get hired as an action sports photographer, or how does a photographer get their photos featured in magazines. Are there particular things they look […]

Another very late blog post : o

In March and April  I was busy shooting a commission for a client, specifically the areas of Cumbria and North Wales. It was a very last minute thing that I got a call a week before and luckily I had time to shoot Cumbria before going to Morzine with Jared. The brief was to capture […]

2014 in images and words

I kind of look forward to this little trip down memory lane at the end of the year. I know I say and many others say that time seems to move faster as you get older. When I was a kid , a year would seem to last forever, now its a few trips here […]

Skye, Gairloch and Dumbarton Rock

Last week I was in Scotland doing a photo shoot for Rab for their spring summer 2015 range of clothing . We had scheduled 2 days shooting but as i was in Scotland for a week i thought I might head out to the western isles and shoot some landscapes. That was the plan until […]

North Wales

North Wales is one of my favourite places to be , only a few hours drive from the flat lands and I’m actually surrounded by mountains , ok , its not the Alps but for such a small area it has an amazing number of stunning routes , both rock climbing and scrambling. This trip […]