Bryce Canyon National Park – Who knows the hoodoos?
“Bryce Point” – Print available to buy now Welcome to Bryce Canyon National Park – the last of the 5 parks and canyons I visited in August, including our trip to the amazing Antelope Canyon in Arizona...
View ArticleGolden Gate Bridge Sunrise and San Francisco City Views
Knowing San Francisco relatively well, I knew that when I tried to get a sunrise shot of the Golden Gate Bridge back in August I was really setting myself up for failure. Waking up before 4am, we drove...
View ArticleLandscapes and Sunsets Update – National Parks & Morro Bay
It was only the other day that I realised I’d been updating my Facebook and twitter accounts with a lot more landscape images than I had been uploading on to here. Time to get that corrected! This...
View ArticleCorfe Castle – Sunrise Photography in Dorset
Ashamed as I am to say it, given the amount of time I spend in and around Dorset, I’ve never once photographed Corfe Castle. It’s just down the road, and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of...
View ArticlePhotographing the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge
After a gruelling CES in Las Vegas, a free day in San Francisco was just what I needed, and the prospect of spending the day shooting with a great photographer friend of mine – Scott Marrs – was not to...
View ArticleNeutral Density and ND-Grad Filters – what’s the use?
Quick question: What do the following images have in common? The simple answer? They’d be impossible shots to take without some form of filter – and in this particular case, a filter which many people...
View ArticlePhotographing the Hollywood Sign – A Los Angeles Landmark
Last October, during a visit to LA, a friend and I tried getting that ever sought-after “unique view” of the Hollywood sign. Despite signs threatening death to all tourists (I imagine it could be quite...
View ArticleBeijing, The Great Wall of China, Forbidden City & Olympic Stadium
“The Greatest Wall” – Print available to buy now Since moving to China, I’d looked at the best time to go and photograph the Great Wall (or the sections near Beijing, anyway) – and no time seemed...
View ArticleDurdle Door Sunrise – The Golden Arches
Wow – what a morning it turned out to be! Preparing for the worst, having checked the weather forecast the week before I arrived back home to England, I wasn’t expecting anywhere near this shot when I...
View ArticleThe Sydney Opera House – The Jewel of the Grand Harbour
I got it! The shot I wanted of Australia’s Sydney Opera House at sunrise – and luck (while not wanting to give me an easy ride this time) was on my side. “Solo” – print available to buy now Standing on...
View ArticleThe Maldives – Landscapes From Paradise On Earth
Imagine waking up to this view at sunrise every morning. The crystal blue water, vibrant pink sky at sunrise and sunset, the tranquil overwater jetty leading out to your own private villa (or in the...
View ArticlePhotographing London – The capital city of home
Stood on the banks of the River Thames looking at Tower Bridge and the Tower of London at 4:30am, I pondered over the question I’d been asking myself the whole way back to London this month: “Why don’t...
View ArticlePortal – Capturing Xingping, the Guilin Mountains that Reach Up to the Sky
As they say, there are three types of lies in this world: Lies, damned lies and… weather reports. If I’d actually paid attention to the forecast, I would never have witnessed (let alone photographed)...
View ArticleMyst – The willow trees of Glenorchy, New Zealand
The bitterness of the cold winter mist across Lake Wakatipu in Glenorchy is the strongest memory I have of taking this photograph. Granted, it’s turned out better than I could have hoped for given my...
View ArticleThe Cobb – Capturing Sunrise at Lyme Regis
Sometimes those unplanned shots are the best. Well, I say “unplanned”, but what I mean is I hadn’t intended to photograph Lyme Regis during this trip back home. Having spent the previous afternoon...
View ArticleTara Stiles – Strala Yoga at W Maldives Retreat
Some people think they’re flexible (and I’m not one of them), but having now had the privilege to shoot Tara Stiles during her Strala Yoga Retreat at W Maldives, I’d say my definition of flexibility...
View ArticlePaul Nominated for The Societies’ Photographer of the Year 2014
Well, we’re definitely heading into the “awards season”, and what better news to receive today than the email that came in informing me that I’d made the shortlist for The Societies’ Photographer of...
View ArticleNew York City – The 2014 Manhattan Cityscapes
“The City that Never Sleeps”, “Gotham City”, “The Big Apple”, “Empire City”, “The City of Dreams”, “New Amsterdam”, “The Melting Pot” – to everyone that visits or lives in this incredible city, the...
View ArticleBack Down-Under : Sydney Cityscapes Revisited
I’m rapidly becoming a huge fan of Sydney. This was the first place I ever visited in Australia, and while there are obviously many more beautiful places across the country to see, Sydney will always...
View ArticleVenice – A tale of two cities in winter
“Venezia” – print available to buy now What an awesome sight – being up before dawn on one of the first vaporetto (water bus) services across to Piazza San Marco (or “St. Mark’s Square” as we know it...
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