JOURNAL

The long days of summer are often a problem for landscape photographers. The blazing daytime sunlight casts strong, dark shadows and while sunrise and sunset always provide the most interesting light, can be as early as 4:02am and as late as 10:25pm in mainland UK. That's hard to work around, but the effort can be worth it. I favour the time during and just after the 'blue hour', which (ironically) usually lasts about 20 minutes, and occurs when the sun is a few degrees belo

Don't just jump out of the car and start firing... Every photographer knows the feeling; you’re driving along minding your own business when all of a sudden there’s an amazing view or weather condition. But no matter how spectacular the light, in my case jumping out of the car, grabbing my gear and running across a peat bog in the hope of getting a memorable image never seems to work out. I carry a camera in one shape or form wherever I go, and in this instance was travellin