Following on from the increased visitor numbers of last year, and some really excellent feedback, my range of images will be boosted by bigger prints and panoramas, prints and framed images will be available
Likely that free tea and coffee is back on the menu and I may even crack open the good biscuits
What is it that drags me out with some pretty damn heavy camera equipment? No matter where I am, nature will change what I see. My focus isn’t entirely landscapes but it makes up the vast majority of my shots. I can be at the top of the same hill 3 days running and end up with 3 sets of differing views. Mother Weather is a fickle friend and she has left me soaked on more than one occasion where I have believed the BBC weather forecast only for it to rapidly turn into a downpour
Why do I do it? At 6am when no-one else is around, no-one, absolutely no-one, can see what I am seeing at that time and if I think it is a great picture, I want to share that view. From the stark contrasts as the sun hits trees and buildings in summer to the same view where mist shrouds the subject to such a degree, it could be anywhere.
I was asked recently what made up my palette and my answer was “It depends!!” as nature and weather can throw the most surprising changes to enhance pictures (or have me run for shelter out of the rain)
Born in Oxford, and never having left the county, unsurprisingly many of my pictures are local. However now I am not far from the very top of the county I am on the edge of the Cotswolds, close to Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire each with their own charm and distinct character and I have been out regularly to capture some of their offerings unfound in my home county. The huge windmill at Chesterton, the mill at Lower Slaughter, the fabulous Broadway Tower are all favourites of mine.