I’ve often thought about doing a daily or weekly photography challenge, I’ve seen other photographers undertake them and the journey looks interesting. However, I am not and have never been good at following rules so instead I’ve set myself the very gentle challenge of building a visual diary of my botanical encounters over the year. … More A year in wild flowers
I’m delighted to share that my image of the Dorset Downs, taken last summer was awarded 2nd place in the Square Crop category of IGPOTY 16. The image is currently on exhibition at Kew Gardens alongside some wonderful and creative work from talented photographers from all over the world. You can see all of the … More IGPOTY 16
Update – Wild is now available at Kozu Books I’m delighted to announce that Wild, a book of my photography is now available for preorder at KOZU books. I’m so excited about this publication and can’t wait to share it with the world. The book is a collection of intimate landscapes and portraits of nature … More Wild
This weekend I wanted to go out and hunt for frog orchids on the downs, but my little car had other plans, flashing scary warning lights at me, so I found myself at home in the village this weekend. As this week’s challenge for #wilfdlflowerhour (my favourite Twitter event every Sunday at 8-9pm) I went … More Botanical Collage
I haven’t written anything for a long time so I thought I would write a quick ost about photographing the spring woods with intentional camera movement (ICM) and multiple expoures. I’m probably sharing this post a little late i the season, but hopefully’ll see another week of bluebells in the woods and hopefully any tips … More Bluebell Woods
I’ve created a claendar for 2022 featuring images of my beloved woodlands and trees. And as it’s been a tough year for us all I’ve reduced the price to £10 plus p&p. The camedar is available to purchase from Love from the Artist and aas it’s printed on demand there is no waste. Calendars are … More 2022 Woodland Calendar
It’s my favourite time of year again here in Dorset, the woods are carpeted with bluebells and the leaves on the trees are bursting from their buds. Bluebells are one of my favourite flowers to spend time with and to photograph so I thought I would write a post about how I go about photographing … More Photographing Bluebells
For years now I have been adding accents of gold and silver to my work. When I worked as a glass blower we would very often use gold and silver leaf to decorate art glass, bowls and goblets and although I no longer blow glass I still adore using gold and silver to adorn my … More Gold & Silver
I am now offering many of my images as fine art prints my shop at Fine Art America. Up until now only a selection of botanical work was available but I have expanded the collections to include woodland and tree images. If you would like to browse the prints on offer then please do follow … More Prints
How I create my images of gulls in flight It’s been a while since I wrote a post about techniques, so I’m going to share one about one of my favourite techniques, intentional camera movement. I’ve been taking hand held ICM pictures of the gulls in flight over the river Stour in Blandford Forum for … More Photographing birds in flight
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