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We had a storm last Sunday with winds gusting to 80mph stripping lots of leaves but many have survived in this local gorge. I will probably travel up to Perthshire in Scotland at the weekend. Perthshire is probably the best Autumn colour location in Britain until then this will have to do. Ken

Built for William Armstrong a wealthy industrialist and engineer in the 19thC William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong - Wikipedia . It was the first house in the world lit by hydro electricity and it still is Cragside | Northumberland | National Trust . William was a polymath who started working...

Porth Nanven near Lands End sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean and is a beautiful soft sandy beach with nice rocks at either end of the cove. On this visit I had only about a 2ft swell but no wind so no wind driven waves. Luckily this does produce some backwash. No backwash as the waves...

For the first time I was able to see colours in the Aurora. Some movement in the green sheets not much in the red but the red was very visible even through the street lights in town. I was in a hurry to process this for you and didn't use any noise reduction. This is looking East. It should...

This was early in the night, about 8pm. The Aurora really kicked off at 3 in the morning with a KP level 3 times higher than this but I was safely tucked up in bed and only discovered this when I reviewed the data. I am happy with the images but for this I wish that I had bought the Sony 14mm...

This is a 10 minute walk from home For a few seconds the Aurora started dancing but by the time that the Long Exposure Noise Reduction had stopped and I got the camera into position it was over but seeing it was great

In fiction Dartmoor is portrayed as a wild, windswept, inhospitable place but it must have been in benign mode during my visit in September. In reality it is a plateau at about 1,000ft with granite Tors jutting up. Hay Tor, the couple on top give a sense of scale Dartmoor has "wild" ponies...

I don't know why I didn't post these at the time. This Trebarwith Strand, at low tide it is just a beautiful sandy beach 300yds deep and half a mile wide but as the tide rises the slate formations produce pleasant foregrounds. This is the North Atlantic in very calm mood with almost no swell...

This was our last day in Cornwall. We were packing up to return to our friend's house in Devon and decided to visit one last coastal location despite the terrible weather, low scudding clouds, intermittent heavy rain and a very brisk wind. The day before I had got a little too close to a...

This is Bedruthen Steps in North Cornwall with the Atlantic Ocean on the left. Unfortunately 3 years ago a series of rockfalls swept the only easy path away. It is possible to get down but only at low tide with the distinct possiblity of getting cut off. The couple on the beach are a good 20...

I was just too late to see the strongest show but it reached Kp6 tonight and maybe Kp7 tomorrow so check Aurora forecast Apps tonight and tomorrow. Ken

The North Cornish coast has cliffs and beautiful beaches and should have large Atlantic rollers pounding in. Unfortunately we have a few days of calm seas, but I try to make the best of it. Ken Bedruthen Steps Trebarwith

No! not the geese flying South. This area is general and the coastal salt marshes in particular is a favourite over wintering area for wildfowl despite being further North than Newfoundland. It is the first hint of yellow in the trees. Ken

I had a few hours to spare last Saturday when I drove my wife to a meeting in North Yorkshire. This is a limestone area with vast cave systems complete with underground rivers and waterfalls but I am claustrophobic and the thought of being in even the largest cave gets me in a sweat. So it has...

I was in the mood to do some mono processing today. Firstly a grungy contrasty image of Saint Conan's Kirk in Western Scotland. In a softer mood I went for the minimalist "fine art" look. I will experiment further with this style of image. Every time I alter the luminosity and contrast in...

75min on the train right into the heart of Venice. After the 95F heat in Verona, Venice was a slightly cooler 91F but the slight breeze from the sea made it feel much better. It was lunchtime by the time we arrived and we had 5hrs before our return train left so off to the tourist hotspots. It...

Sirmione is, according to the online guides, a charming village at the end of a 2 mile peninsula sticking out into Lake Garda. Lake Garda is the largest of the Italian Lakes and is 32 miles long with the Southern end in the Northern Italian plane and the Northern end into the Alps. We took the...

We spent 5 days exploring Verona in temperatures that were far too hot for comfort. I really should have been out very early in the morning to take advantage of the softer light and pleasant conditions but it never happened. Juliet's balcony, Verona was the setting for Romeo and Juliet, real...

We spent a week in Verona, Northern Italy earlier this month, we had been gifted tickets for 2 operas La Boheme and Carmen. The weather was hot, or at least hot by my standards, 90+ every day, unfortunately this hot, high pressure weather has lasted for weeks and the atmospheric conditions were...

5 hrs in Venice and we crammed a lot in. The colours look a little odd but it is probably my phone. The water is on the green side of blue in reality. Lots of pictures today but we need to tidy our apartment before flying home tomorrow so this will be the only one today. Anotger easy process...