Back in February, I took my first trip to the Dolomites to carry out a “recce” on locations throughout the mountains of north Italy to create a “Photography Holiday”, it was an amazing trip but was also a cold one with most of the lakes iced over, so I had to go back and see …
This all sounds idyllic but the challenges for us both were plentiful, crowds of people, locations, light, lack of light, all this and more made for a challenging few days but we rose to the occasion. The layout of Venice with the canals and streets that can only mainly be termed as alleys flanked by …
My trip was 27th February to March 6th so there was plenty of snow which was very deep in some places and surprisingly not too cold a small bonus. With a quite extensive schedule of places to visit that I had done good research on my time in the Dolomites was to be spent with …
It is a phenomenally beautiful spectacle with incredible masks and gowns being worn by men women children and I even saw a dog dressed up too. They parade around Venice and this is also has a historic tradition which started in the 13th century when Venetians would hold celebrations and parties from December 26th until …
What makes La Palma different? The entire island has been declared a Unesco biosphere reserve this is based on so many things, the rich diversity of nature, along with one of the best night sky observatories in the world has given this island a unique place in my heart. Add to that the recent eruption …
The first weekend of July sees me heading west from London to the remote but stunning corner of Wales that is Pembrokeshire. My reason for this trip is a long held desire to visit this beautiful part of the country but this time it’s to research the area with all it has to offer photographically …
When lockdown hit us last year and the enforced confinement to our own safe home habitats was starting to bite I had to do something to keep my photography needs fulfilled. Blessed with a garden space I set about watching the wildlife & seeing what I could “manufacture” in terms of photographic opportunities birds were …
The recent photography trip saw us at Richmond Park for an early 6am meet to walk into the park and get into our chosen position by the parks main lakes, ready and waiting in anticipation for sunrise. About ten minutes before sunrise we were standing there thinking “ok, sunrise is not going to play ball” & we …
