This months wallpaper is a late evening panorama of Ridgegate Reservoir taken a couple of days ago whilst out scouting the Macclesfield Forest area on the edge of the Peak District. I took some medium format shots at the same time so once they’re developed it should be interesting to see a comparison between the [...]

I was never very good with formal education. Most of the time I had other, more important things on my mind .. girls, music, and generally enjoying life. School was boring. The most inane and monotonous repetition of so-called facts with little discussion, and all delivered with as much passion as a party political broadcast. [...]

It’s one of the things that’s always bugged me about ‘travel photography’ that for some reason as soon as you mention the two words together, people seem to think no further than Asia or a sun-kissed beach in Barbados. It’s a massive cliche which at the risk of generalising, everyone is guilty of, photographers included. [...]

A couple of days ago I came across an advert, posted by a photographer, who was seeking an assistant/s to help him out with an up & coming photo shoot. Nothing unusual there, except the advertised rate for doing this was exactly $0. Now this isn’t the first time that this happened (won’t be the [...]