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A Moment Captured! A Memory Forever!
I have photographs on my website taken in places as far away as Iceland and Venice! Never did I expect that my most popular picture would be one I shot no more than a few miles from my own front door! ‘Lean on Me’ has been my best seller for several years now, I’ve...
Muddy, Injured and Trapped!
For months I had been looking forward to visiting this private woodland area to take photographs of the bluebells and on Thursday 27th May I finally got the chance to go. To catch the golden hour light, I arrived around 6pm. I pulled up in the van, grabbed my kit and...
Surrounded, St Mary’s Island, Whitley Bay
The Picture, The Story! My thought here was to capture the Lighthouse from the other side, I was aiming for something different. As I walked past the Lighthouse and got to the rocks, I spotted an inlet and instantly thought that it would be a great leading line for...
Rainbow’s End, Seaton Sluice.
The Picture, The Story! It was the 1st of January 2018, the first light of a new year. I made my way to Old Hartley, North Tyneside to get some shots of the sunrise looking towards St Mary’s Island. When I got there however, something didn’t quite seem right, I wasn’t...