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Razorbills are fairly rare on the Farnes, only 500 pairs as opposed to Puffins with 40,000 pairs. Ken

Following Larry's snow shot, here is one of mine from my local 12thC church. British weather continues to be unusual, or should I say unusual for pre 2010, since then incredibly warm spells, weeks of rain followed by weeks of drought have, unfortunately, become more usual. Here in the North of...

Another image from the Farne islands. Ken

Another image from the Farne islands. This area is one of the easiest places to photograph seabirds. In an hour I managed 44 photographs and I am no expert. Ken

Just prior to landing this commonplace seabird strikes a balletic pose. Ken

A Chamois is a goat- antelope native to the mountainous parts of Southern Europe. Hunted for both its meat and skin. I have old cycling shorts with a genuine chamois insert and used to have a window cleaning chamois. Ken

Last month we went to a concert by Julie Fowlis held in Stirling in central Scotland. The music was wonderful but the weather less so. After a night in a hotel we drove back home via Falkirk to see the Kelpies, 100ft high steel statues of mythical “ water horses”. We lived in Stirling more than...

This short stretch of cliff (less than 2 miles) has many possible compositions due to the numerous sea stacks and islands. We stayed for a night a short walk from here. Unfortunately a brisk wind caused problems with long exposures so I resorted to a burst of exposures and mean merging them to...

My favourite

We are having an unusually hot spell here, into the high 90s but the forecast for the islands off the North East coast was cloudy and mid 60sF so off to photograph Puffins. I am glad that I had tried to photograph swifts before I went because puffins move fast, not as fast as swifts though. Many...

Playa de Gueirua was one of the locations that I wanted to visit. The sea stacks just look like something out of a Sci Fi fantasy. Like many of the coves and beaches in this part of Northern Spain you need to hike in and then make your way down a cliff face. This location has a path and a tiny...

This was a new beach for me but I had seen posts from here and knew that I had to visit on a low'ish falling tide. Unfortunately the tide wasn't quite low enough for me to visit the sea caves, more on tides later but at least the rain stopped and the light improved. Getting around this beach is...

This was a busy day as we visited 4 different beaches, all within 30 miles. The day was not promising with a forecast promising 100% cloud cover, frequent showers and little or no waves but forecasts have been known to be wrong so a pre-breakfast walk down onto the beach, umbrella in hand. The...

Actually the 1st day of photography as we landed in Santander on the fprevious evening and just eat, drank and slept. Next day back to the airport to pick up our hire car and drove to the Costa Quebrada on a scouting trip. On the way we could see the snow covered Picos de Europa but decided...

I first photographed here 8 years ago and wanted to come back and grab the shots that I missed then. On this trip I visited twice, the first with lots of rain and calm seas, the second with sunshine and waves. If you follow Adam Gibbs you may have seen images from here. #1 from the first visit...

I have hundreds but will not bore you with all of them so will post a few at a time. The weather, for the most part, was terrible with lots of rain and dull flat light with dull featureless skies although most of my posts will not look like it. Two sunrises without rain (#4 and #5) and no...

Loch Morlich lies under the Cairngorm mountains. When we arrived the wind was calm and the rain/ snow had stopped I had weather radar on my phone and waited for what I hoped was heavy snow, it was snow but tiny flakes that do not show up well in photographs. I did find a nice view at 200mm on...

Last. week we spent 4 days in the highlands. We almost cancelled the trip as the forecast looked like 4 days of rain/ sleet/ snow but in the end we wrapped up well and went. I am starting with a series of high key landscapes taken in the Cairngorm mountains. There are 4 peaks above 4,000 ft...

I was in Yorkshire on Wednesday and had a few hours spare so visited Fountains Abbey a ruined 12thC Abbey. At its height in the 13thC it house 400 monks and 800 lay brothers and even in its present ruined state it is awe inspiring. It was a very rich Abbey up until 1539 and the dissolution of...

All focus stacked, some with as many as 70 images. Unfortunately a slight breeze has taken the edge off of the sharpness but I think that they are still interesting. The next 3 are from very short lived conditions with me trying to get the images captured before the morning sun melted the...