As part of a recent project I had the opportunity to spend a few days on the Ayrshire coastline photographing some of the scenery along this amazing stretch of coastline. This blog post has a collection of my favourite images from the trip taken on the Ayrshire coastline.

One of my favourite Cornwall photos is featured as a double page spread on the very prominent pages 6 & 7 of the June issue of Countryfile Magazine. The shot from Crantock Beach in Cornwall was taken a couple of years ago on a beautiful early summer's evening looking out down over the beach with the tide two thirds of the way out exposing the huge sandy beach.

I spent 4 days last week up in the Cairngorms with friends staying in Aviemore, this was mainly a trip to catch up with friends and ski at Cairngorm Mountain but I did manage to get the camera out on a couple of occasions to capture the beautiful snowy winter landscapes. This blog post features the best of the images from the trip including shots from Loch Morlich, Cairngorm Mountain itself and the nearby Loch Garten.

I now offer a wide range of framed Sheffield based images which are all available to purchase to hang on your wall as either a single mounted print, framed prints or Sheffield scenes on canvas.

I spent this Christmas with my family in Filey on the Yorkshire Coastline. On Christmas morning I made my way down to beach with grey skies and expecting not many opportunities for seascape photographs but the sky soon turned and the sunrise was spectacular with lovely direct light and colour int he sky. Below is a sideshow of the best images from the morning.

If you are a landscape photographer looking for the most dramatic coastal scenery there is a good chance that Cornwall will be high up on the list of places to visit. I’ve created a map with some of the best spots for photography around this part of Cornwall built up from knowledge from my trips including car parks and access points to the Cornwall coastal path and beaches.

At the beginning of September I had a great week’s holiday on the Cornish coastline staying at the popular town of Newquay. I managed to fit in a couple of photography trips around the beaches of Newquay and a little further down the coast at Holywell Bay. This blog features many photographs from the trip.

The November edition of the Warwickshire Focus magazine features one of my long standing favourite images from Warwickshire taken on the banks of the River Avon on a frosty winter morning. The Stratford Swan image has always been a popular image on my website and was previously awarded a top prize in a landscape photography competition.

Now in its fifth year, I’m pleased to announce the launch of my range of 2015 landscape photography calendars. This year I have decided to create 4 different calendars, with the additional calendars covering the Scottish Highlands, the Peak District and the Lake District National Park.

I have just got back from a brilliant week spent in Pembrokeshire. It was my first trip to Pembroke so I was a little unsure what to expect although I had heard the scenery compared to Cornwall many times. In Pembrokeshire South Wales you are you for choice for beautiful beaches, coastal walks, good pubs and castles!

It seems to be a theme these days to do a review of the previous year once we have entered the new year. 2014 is looking to be a busy year with lots of trips planned including a 2 week tour of Iceland along with trips to Ireland and back to the Scottish Highlands. 2014 will also be the year that I take on more freelance work (both landscape and digital imaging/marketing work) so plan to dedicate more time to the business side of my photography and continue on the growth within 2013.

During my time in Newcastle I made many early morning trips to the glorious North Tyneside coastline, the beaches are some of the best so close to any city in the UK. Running from the mouth of the Tyne up to Whitley bay the coastline forms a photographers playground with rocky outcrops, man made harbors and piers, the historic Tynemouth priory, glorious sandy beaches and to top it off the famous St Mary’s Lighthouse just north of the beaches at Whitley Bay.

Wasdale is has a very different feel to many areas of the Lake District and is different in many ways, the difficulty in accessing the area means that there are far few visitors than to other parts of the Lakes making it an unspoilt naturally beautiful area with a great sense of escape. You can walk around the hills and valleys here and see very few people (the exception being the main paths and climbs to Scafell).

The histogram is a tool in most DLSR cameras and photo editing software which at a basic level shows you a graph of the range on tones throughout your photograph. The term 'Shooting to the right' gets thrown around photography forums usually without any kind of information or guidelines showing what this actually is and why it is such a useful thing to know. The technique of shooting to the right is incredibly useful when you are hoping to get the absolutely best quality in the RAW file

The same question comes up on many photography forums throughout the year - "I've got a day to spend in the Lake District, where shall I go?". I tend to suggest a loop starting from Derwentwater outside of Keswick and taking in Borrowdale and Buttermere where you can find a while variety of Lake District photography locations including lakes, waterfalls, fells, mountain views, stone circles, rivers, becks and wildlife.

My latest published image appears in the September 2013 edition of Countryfile Magazine which has one of my images from Wentworth Village just south of Barnsley as part of their feature on 12 must-visit British villages, it's nice to get my name alongside the picture with the image credit.

Now becoming one of the most visited locations in Sheffield, the Sheffield Winter Garden is a city centre is a large temperate greenhouse which was opened by the Queen in 2003. The Sheffield Winter Garden was built as part of the Sheffield City Centre Heart of the City regeneration project which included the nearby Peace Gardens and development of the Sheffield Millennium Galleries.

I recently had the opportunity to spend a few days in Paris as part of a weeks holiday to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. I managed to get by with my little Panasonic TZ8 and a handy Gorilla pod bendy tripod and managed to get a few shots in among the thousand of other tourists and photographers all aiming for similar spots. The buildings in Paris are beautiful, the architecture and history is truly amazing.

I had a nice surprise in the post the other morning, a hot off the press copy of one of the new South West Coastal Path guide books which includes two of my seascape photographs from Cornwall. The photographs that were used are both from Crantock Beach just around the headland from the popular Cornwall holiday destination of Newquay.

Padley Gorge is a firm favourite with photographers visiting the Peak District National Park on a photography holiday or photo trip. The Peak District is quite different to other national parks when it comes to waterfalls or should I say the relatively small number of waterfalls.