At the beginning of Feb I needed to be in the Lakes for an afternoon appointment. As the conditions looked good for photography, I arranged to travel up the day before and stay overnight. My timing was off and I arrived after sunset, but there was strong moonlight, and as I drove down the side [...]

The first image was taken on a return to the Longdendale valley after a light dusting of snow, the weather front had passed and conditions were cold, calm and clear. We walked round Valehouse reservoir and then decided on a change of scene, so drove over the Snake Pass. On the descent from Snake summit, [...]

Yesterday I went for a walk round the lower 2 reservoirs in the Longdendale Valley, which leads up to the Woodhead Pass in Derbyshire. It’s about a 6 mile circuit, starting and finishing in Tintwistle. Oddly enough, although the route is very close on the northern leg to the main A628 truck road, by some [...]

Third day of a spell of fine weather, the plus side of winter is that you don’t have to get up quite so early to photograph the dawn (only 6:30, a considerable improvement on 4AM!). However the downside is that it’s absolutely freezing! This was an ad-hoc shoot for the National Trust (I’m a volunteer [...]

This is one of my favourite Lakes locations, with a lovely path running alongside the River Brathay from the village and down to Elterwater itself. A very popular viewpoint, but still enjoyable. I’d been here before in Nov 2010, but decided to return on the second day of a cold clear spell. This is the [...]

The downside of living where I do – on the eastern side of Manchester / western edge of the Peak District – is that we get higher than average cloud and rainfall (and Manchester gets its fair share anyway). The plus side is that I’m within walking distance of fabulous country and there are few [...]

On Kinder Scout, one of the summits in the Dark Peak, there is a waterfall called Kinder Downfall. On very windy days, which we’ve been having in abundance here in the UK recently, westerly winds come screaming up the valley and funnel into their most intense just as the water is going over the edge. [...]

We had a good dump of snow a couple of days back, and the forecast was for sunshine in the afternoon. Driving anywhere was going to be tricky, so walking out onto the local hills from my house seemed to be a good plan. One of the benefits of living where we do is the [...]