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There’s lots of snow in the Austrian Alps, even at Innsbruck Airport. Even more in the mountains. Here’s a few phone photos to give you an idea of what it’s...

We are all set up and ready to go for the 2018 RHS Wisley Christmas Contemporary Craft and Art Fair, run by Craft in Focus. Our stand is D30. It’s open from Wednesday...

Jan and I had a short trip to Budapest in November 2018, flying out from London Heathrow on a Saturday, returning on a Monday. That gave me one full day plus late afternoon/early...

It’s the ‘world premiere’ of my new lecture Snow Light tonight. All images were taken on film with over 80 hand printed darkroom prints. Lots of landscapes...

We’re doing the Great peak District Fair this weekend in Buxton Pavilion Gardens. After an absence of 3 years the show returns into the newly restored Octagon building....

Friday 28th September 2018, the last day of our trek through our local Peak District hills. Yet another sunny day but thankfully several degrees cooler than yesterday. It was quite...

It was the warmest day of the trek today with temperatures around 20°C. Lots of sunshine too. Huge breakfast at the Little John in Hathersage. Somehow we managed to move...

Yet another warm sunny day, not at all Autumnal. We left the Monsal Head Hotel after a good hearty breakfast for Little Longstone then headed up over the gently rolling hillside....

My back was really painful through the night. The long distance and awkward stiles yesterday took their toll on my back. I ended up taking a tablet at 5am to ease the pain....

We left the Stanley Arms at the crack of 10.30am as breakfast didn’t start until 9am. Our breakfasts were very generous and tasty so we didn’t need anything else...

Today Jan and I walked from Tunstead Milton through the Goyt Valley, up Stakeside over the Cat and Fiddle road to the Stanley Arms in Wildboarclough. A few days ago we expected...

I’m giving my City Light lecture to Cambridge Camera Club tonight, Monday 10th September 2018. Illust with lots of my hand printed darkroom prints. KO 7.30pm, venue...

We are exhibiting at the Craft in Focus Contemporary Craft and Design Fair at Brooklands Museum near Weybridge in Surrey. It is open every day from 10am to 5pm today, Friday...

We spent the whole day in Cambridge taking more photos with my Mamiya 7 camera and Jan took shots with her Fuji XE3. As usual it was sunny and warm! I have new photos of Magdalene,...

Jan and I have come down to Cambridge for a few days prompted by an invitation to a garden party at Churchill College, my old college while I did my PhD at the University...

I met an old friend a couple of weeks ago to have a catch-up while we walked the hills near Longnor. We chose a good day at the start of this spell of nice weather, but not hot like...

Today, Wednesday 23rd May 2018 we travelled from Trondheim to Oslo on the train. This was a journey time of almost 7 hours but at least I could wander around and not just...

We woke up on Hurtigruten MS Nordnorge close to Trondheim this morning and, after an early breakfast, we left the ship for the last time. Our hotel was just a 5 minute walk...

The day was wet and windy until late afternoon. I was hoping to get a good view of the 7 Sisters mountains just south of Sandnessjoen but the clouds were down and it was raining....

We’re heading south again from the most northerly point of our trip, Tromso. We were hoping for good views of the spectacular mountains in the Vesteralen and Lofoten...

Heading for Tromso our ship detoured into Trollfjord, just 100m wide at the narrowest. It doesn’t lead anywhere so the ship turned around and came through the narrows...

Friday 18th May 2018. We have come to the end of our time in Reine in the Lofoten Islands. Really enjoyed ourselves. Small place with just 2 restaurants, a coffee shop and a small...

Thursday 17th May 2018 was Norway Day. Unfortunately, it rained for much of the day so we went for a walk, about 8 miles to Hamnoy. Everything was closed, too dull for photos...

Wet and windy today so we went for a 7 mile walk to the village in the far south of the Lofoten Islands, called Å (pronounced ‘OR’, roughly). It’s a bit like...

A bit less strenuous today, we just walked from Reine to the small hamlet of Hamnoy. There was no footpath so we followed the road, fortunately it was reasonably quiet. It started...

Monday 14th May 2018, our first full day in Reine in the Lofoten Islands and it started sunny! For me, the most important landscape shot for the whole trip is the wide angle...

Still on the Hurtigruten MS Vesteralen heading north to the Lofoten Islands. Time is starting to drag on board. Life seems to revolve around meals and not much exercise. The first...

Today we woke up in Trondheim, the ship docked at 6am. We went for an early breakfast, along with half of the ship, and managed to get off a bit before 8am heading for town....

Our first full day on the Hurtigruten MS Vesteralen was broken by a few short stops and a 3 hour one in Alesund. We made our escape to take photos around the small town. First...

In complete contrast to yesterday we woke up to heavy rain and it didn’t stop all day. We put on full waterproofs and went out for a couple of hours around Bergen, including...

Jan drove us down to Gatwick Airport yesterday. We caught the start of the late afternoon rush hour so it took 5 hours! This morning, Wednesday 9th May 2018, it was just a few minutes...

The forecast was for snow on high ground a couple of days ago but in fact it stayed dry all day but with a cold wind on top. We left Patterdale at 9am heading for Threlkeld...

Day 5 saw us walking the 12 miles from Pooley Bridge to Patterdale over 3 Wainwright’s. Jolly cold wind on top and reasonable views.   The views improved as we climbed...

Day 4 of our trek took us from Mungrisdale to Pooley Bridge at the top of Ullswater lake. Quite an easy day, no hills, just 11 miles to walk. It looked like we might get away...

Today we walked from Caldbeck to Mungrisdale, about 12 miles over 2 Wainwright’s. The forecast was for a dry start followed by light rain mid afternoon turning heavier...

Today we hiked from Bassenthwaite to Caldbeck, about 13 miles including 5 Wainwright’s. It took just 6 hours. From the forecast we expected a dry but windy day and that’s...

I’ve come back to the Lake District for another 6 day trek with good friend Al from Gloucester. Hoping to take some photos of areas that I haven’t visited before....

We recently had a couple of days in the Yorkshire Dales. We stayed in Catterick but visited Richmond on the first day so that I could buy a new pair of boots from the Altberg...

More snow in the Peak District yesterday and today Sunday 18th March 2018. Big drifts again, winter boots and snowshoes out. The main roads are mostly clear but many side...

We had a trip to the Lake District in February so that I could take some new photos of Striding Edge in Winter. There was snow from the car park at the Wythburn car park and conditions...

We’ve had quite a bit of snow in the Peak District this winter. Never more than just a few days and the latest snow, that came in with the Beast from the East, Storm...

Yesterday was a day of snow flurries with big flakes and almost no wind but cold, -2°C. Very pretty but not much of a snow covering, maybe just ½ inch and patchy. The roads...

I walked the 6 miles to Buxton to run Gallery in the Gardens this afternoon. Ground frozen solid. Lots of people out and about. Busy day.  

We left Aviemore this morning, starting our journey home. We didn’t get very far before I asked Jan to stop the car and let me out to take some shots of the mountains...

Today we returned to Glen Feshie so that we could snowshoe up to the top of a Munro that we last climbed almost exactly 31 years ago! A Munro is a Scottish mountain over 3000...

It seems to be snowing every day here in the Cairngorms. Trouble is it’s borderline for the temperature between snow and rain. Yesterday we visited good friends near...

We’ve moved on from the Lake District, now we’re in the Cairngorms, staying in Aviemore. The day started with heavy snow but the forecast was for a bit of brightness...

Blog post of a hike up Helvellyn to photograph Striding Edge.

I turned off my iMac before going away to Austria for a week and on our return it wouldn’t start. It fired up but couldn’t get to the home page. The Mac repair...