"For me, this season represents the rebirth of a year. Longer, warmer days (they will come....) signal new beginnings and the atmosphere, like our choice of clothing will change. There is an uplift everywhere."

"I spent a cracking day last week running a workshop that was sandwiched in-between two lovely spring days. Almost but not quite tee shirt weather.

"Always a delight to meet new folk but also pleasing too when those who have enjoyed their first workshops with me and progressed, book me to take them to the next level.

"Vicki Procter and I will be taking groups on a series of PHOTOWALKS this year and we would love you to join us.

".....was thoroughly entertaining, engaging, insightful, witty, nostalgic and very personal. He had the captive audience laughing and hanging on his every word and image."

"I will be undertaking a Q&A session on twitter this Friday 26th January 2017 between 15.00-16.30hrs for Fujifilm.

"My latest blog for FUJIFILM is now up on their website.

"Surprisingly, I had never been there in all my travels around the lakes and loved what it had to offer.

"It is always a pleasure to be asked to judge competitions and the Trail Magazines Mountain Photograph Of The Year provided me with a very difficult choice."

"I never tire of any of the Lakes locations. Covering virtually all of it throughout the year, I still look forward to simply spending the day out with folk as they learn how to capture the beauty that is served up before them."

"Lots of new images available in my online shop.

"Over the two days I gave six talks based around my experiences with landscape photogrpahy and I thank all of the lovely people who came along and gave me such a great reception.

"If you are in the North West of England next weekend (7/8 October) why not pop over to Liverpool and visit the largest Photographic Exhibition in the region.

"At present I feel like I am a photographer who hasn't been taking photos.

"The view that you are witnessing is only seen from your perspective. Thats when 'we' as photographers decide to acquire it and put before others in the way that we saw it at that moment.

"Tim wore his British lions shirt on the first day and I knew we would get on. Whilst his father lives in Grange, Tim now lives and works in New Zealand as a Cardiologist. Really nice people to spend time with.

"From a work perspective those hazy summer days aren't very productive though. Although the 'green gown of summer' can occasionally produce some outstanding images, it is not the norm. i tend to go looking for closer work that can still be placed in my favourite location such as flowers on the fells above Wast Water.

"Irene had booked us in for a week in Provence and it did not disappoint. This was  our first real foray into France and it won't be our last."

"I like testing myself with new 'avenues' to explore and so I recently set myself a new task Namely to drive around my local area, (I know I should have walked but my back hasn't been great) and undertaking the newly christened, 'Drive By shooting'......

" I was on Birker Fell a couple of weeks back and you could hardly stand up. I was literally being battered by very strong winds. Had I had hair it would have been a mess....