A Winters Morning

I finally managed to get out and about in this lovely snow and Ice this week. I had scoped a couple of likely new locations on my way to shooting a wedding last weekend and was eager to return.
I managed to make a gap in the diary of a couple hours between editing and made the journey over towards Shifnal. The weather looked fantastic until I got within a mile or two of the location and was met with a wall of freezing fog. Visibility was down to about 20 feet - great...

I turned around and drove back towards home. I decided that I would take a walk down one of the local footpaths and found this. The trees where covered in such heavy haw frost they looked like leaves, just beautiful.

This image is available as a print. drop me a line if you would like to enquire.

In Love...

I'm very much looking forward to shooting Stuart and Claire's wedding tomorrow at the Mount. I've got some nice new ideas to try out and have a lot of fun with the bride and groom! I can't wait, I want to start shooting now!
The image above if from Mark and Laura's wedding I shot in August, it's going to form the basis of my new marketing campaign so keep an eye out...

The Beach

Have you ever visited Black Rock Sands? It's a huge expanse of sand which you can drive your car onto (if your brave enough). It's also great for dramatic sky's especially when they role in off the sea. I loved the reflections in the wet sand with the tyre tracks running through it. 

The Waterfall

What do you think about colour? I love deeply saturated colours that explode out of the image what ever type of image that may be. Is there a better time of the year to make an image like this than right now? With all the gold's, reds, browns, greens and yellows it's just beautiful.
This water fall is at the top of a really small country lane between Barmouth and Portmadog Wales. The place has a magical feel to it and I wanted to capture that essence. This is a small side stream off the main flow and the water is quite deep in the margins so you have balance the tripod and yourself quite carefully else you're going in!  

Golden Light

Another image from my cold adventure in wales. I don't know why but I'm always drawn to water and love to include it in my images in whatever form it takes. A fellow photographer Trey Ratcliffe (a very deep and thoughtful man indeed!) said a few weeks ago, You are either a water, mountain, countryside or city person and you will naturally gravitate towards these type of images. I think he is absolutely right. I'm defiantly a water person, what type of person are you?

Mist in the Valley

Such a beautiful morning with so many opportunities for photographs I filled all my memory cards within about 3 hours. The mist was rolling around in the valley constantly changing the scene. The sun was rising behind the large hill to the left and filled the trees with golden light. I shot everything for full scale pano's to my favourite square detail shots and everything in between so plenty more to follow.

Shot on a Nikon D300 17-55mm f2.8 ISO 200 1.5 sec @ f11

Beautiful Wales

I spent the weekend in Wales. It never fails to amaze me just how beautiful it is no matter what time of year you go but in Autumn it is something else. There are photographs everywhere, the light is wonderful and the colours stay with you for ever!

This is image was shot on our way to Barmouth (then onto LLanfair and Porthmadog). I have shot this scene many times but each time is some how different. I really liked the way the clouds where forming over Idris, very epic!

Welcome

Hello all and welcome to my new blog! This is the place to view my latest work as it happens, find out whats coming up, get in touch with me and generally discuss all things photographic (and sometimes not!).

If you would like to see some of my older work, check out my flickr site linked below and feel free to comment. I'm always interested what people have to say and how folks react to what I produce so type away.

In the mean time I have posted one of favorite images from the summer to get going. It was taken in Barmouth (Wales) on the day of the general election in May at about 7pm 'ish. It seemed like I had the whole place to myself as nobody was about. It was quiet eerie and reminded me of those Hollywood end of the world movies.

The sky and colours of the cloud are genuine and haven't been altered. I put it down to all the Icelandic ash flying around at the time. It was certainly spectacular though whatever caused it! Prints of this image are available so get in touch for further info.

Shot on a Nikon D300 and 17-55mm f2.8 lens @ f11 with a Lee 0.9 ND grad to hold the sky back.