A while ago Kingjoy asked if I would like to try their brand new top of the range Carbon Fibre tripod, the SolidRock C85. While always keen to look at new things I declined as I said I was a Gitzo user and didn't think anything could better that, but Kingjoy said this tripod would surprise me and I really needed to try it to see why, while I was intrigued I still declined as I said I used the levelling base on my Gitzo and really didn't want to be without it as it made life so much easier and I'm a huge fan of doing panoramas. Kingjoy then made me stand up and take notice, The SolidRock C85 c ..read more

My Rab jacket addiction continues ! But lets be clear, every jacket I buy is for a very specific purpose and the Rab Kinetic Alpine 2.0 has been on my radar for a while, allow me to explain. The Problem ? The problem I have had for many years is that I use a separate waterproof jacket for my photography/hiking, much like many of you will and this is designed to go over whatever jacket i'm wearing for the hike. This will usually sit in the bottom of my rucksack and when it starts raining I would hunt around for it having to remove the backpack and contents only to get a soaking by the time I go ..read more

Now its been a very long time since I've written a blog post about a single session, instead preferring to list a few in one post, but this time at Corfe Castle it was special, REALLY special and I just had to share it with you. Lets face it, Corfe Castle in the mist isn't a very original shot, in fact its been done to death by every landscape photographer out there, but with good reason, its EPIC ! and it's also on the bucket list of pretty much every landscape photographer out there too. We all know just how popular it is, and you only have to look at the amount of landscape photographers o ..read more

I was lucky enough to be asked by photographer and YouTube, Gary Norman to do an interview/informal chat on his YouTube channel. Gary has got a good size following and is an excellent photographer who has chosen to help out much smaller youtubers such as myself to get our work out to a much bigger audience. On top of this he's a really nice guy and we had a great laugh doing this chat, Gary is known for never pulling his punches and saying it how it is and he doesn't disappoint, some tough questions are asked ! Gary has a unique and entertaining style of chat and draws on a wealth of experien ..read more

I thought I would put together a list of my favourite YouTube videos I have done after I was asked recently in an interview which one I liked best, and why and I just couldn't narrow it down ! So I decided to put up my top 10 favourite shoots ! Hopefully there will be something for everyone here to enjoy and lots of hints & tips to improve your landscape photography as well as showing how I approach each location, Simply click on any of the videos and it will play for you. If you have already subscribed then I can't thank you enough, the support is really appreciated, If you're not a subs ..read more

Let's face it, this year had been an absolute disaster in photography terms. I had battled non stop to just get the time to go out and when I had the weather had just not played ball for me. Work had been non stop this year and weekends were sadly spent doing the overflow of work or catching up on things that needed doing at home or in my personal life. When I actually had free time I was inundated with workshop requests (Not complaining at that) but it had left me with next to no time to enjoy my landscape photography for myself and I didn't fancy another year of that to be fair. December saw ..read more

Let's face it, this year had been an absolute disaster in photography terms. I had battled non stop to just get the time to go out and when I had the weather had just not played ball for me. Work had been non stop this year and weekends were sadly spent doing the overflow of work or catching up on things that needed doing at home or in my personal life. When I actually had free time I was inundated with workshop requests (Not complaining at that) but it had left me with next to no time to enjoy my landscape photography for myself and I didn't fancy another year of that to be fair. December saw ..read more

For a long while now I've been missing something during the Winter months, A decent mid layer. Now to be clear here I have a really decent spec hardshell Gore-Tex jacket and I have several Rab synthetic down jackets which are excellent and could easily constitute a mid layer but the problem is I don't really like wearing my Gore-Tex hard shell jacket I absolutely love the performance of Gore-Tex, it's level of waterproofing, breathability and wind killing features are second to none, that has never been in question, But I simply dont like wearing it unless its raining, what I really want to do ..read more

In October a package turned up, I hadn't ordered anything so I was curious to know what it was, I opened it right away and was surprised to see a full filter system from Kase Filters. I quickly looked round the product and was really excited to see something new ! I messaged the lads at Kase Filters who said I was getting the very first look at the new Kase Filters Armour system and would I give it a test to see what I thought of it and if there were any refinements I felt it needed. To say I was excited was an understatement ! but there was a condition, I couldn't tell anyone about it as the ..read more

This is an account of my landscape photography during October 2021, fresh off the back of a couple of soul destroying months, did October finally bring some luck ? I had high hopes for October, its one of my favourite months to shoot as Autumn takes its hold and transforms landscapes into a colour explosion with shades of red through yellow signalling the change of the seasons and nature everywhere to start its slow slumber of winter in order to regenerate for the spring months. The chance of some nice misty vistas popping up was very real and even the possibility of the first frosts would be ..read more