Image of the Week - Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor
The events of last week at Cockermouth and the surrounding area makes my complaining about the rain and getting wet feet in the Lake District at the start of the month seem rather pathetic. I wish those affected well and hope they can quickly put their homes and businesses back in order.I have been going through the transparencies from my Lakes visit and will be putting many those up on my web site and writing about a few here in due course too. In the meantime, back to better times this summer.Here is my favourite image from the Chee

Return from the Lake District
I've just returned from two weeks working in the Lake District. I say working, but with my family joining me for the first week little photographic work was done until the second week.The weather was overcast for most of the first week, and very wet the second. I must have spent most of my time in the second week sheltering under my umbrella waiting for interesting light. My average wait was been around one and a half hours, but there were at least two occasions when I stood in the rain waiting for over three hours. A leak in my left walking boot di

Image of the Week (Month) - Bedruthan Steps
After finally emerging from my Digital Asset Management Hell earlier this week I got back to work preparing images from the summer and came across this dusk picture from Bedruthan Steps.BEDRUTHAN STEPS, CORNWALL

Digital Asset Management Hell
I'm beginning to think I should start to rename my "Image of the Week" to "Image of the Month" given the recent frequency of my postings. It's amazing where the time goes and almost as soon as this month had started I find myself about to enter it's last week.I have good reason to have missed most of the month and from the experience gained over the last 3 weeks I would like to propose two new rules for photographers.1. Never ever change your Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, no matter how wonderful those shiny new features might seem.2. Under no circumstances ever ignore rule one.

Take a View - Landscape Photographer of the Year 2009 Update
Well the results are out and one of my two short listed images has been Commended by the judges and awarded a place in the awards book. It will also be displayed as an exhibition print at London's National Theatre between 5th December 2009 and 24th January 2010.NASH POINT, GLAMORGAN HERITAGE COASTOf course this isn't the image I'd specifically made for the compe