Update: orders must be placed by 7th Dec to ensure Christmas delivery. This year my calendar celebrates the chalk grasslands here in Dorset. Combining images from my award winning Dorset Downs series with pictures of some of the wild flowers and butterflies found in this internationally rare habitat. Calendars are on FSC certified papers and … More 2024 Calendar
I’m so happy to share that I have a portfolio of work on show at the RHS Botanical Art & Photography 2023 at the Saatchi Gallery in London, and that The Dorset Downs has been awarded a gold medal. My portfolio is a collection of images of the chalk downland here in Dorset. Calcareous grasslands … More Dorset Downs wins RHS Gold
I’m excited to share an update on my post earlier this year anouncing the publication of my first book. Wild is now published and available to buy from Kozu Books. Wild is a collection of intimate landscapes and portraits of nature made over the course of a decade walking in the countryside around my home … More Wild
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
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
My first project of 2021 is a small collection of images from my beloved local woodlands in yellows, oranges, gold and blue. Some images are new, others are composed of older images to which I have layered and added textures and gold leaf. The woods I have wandered in to take these images sit on … More Woodlands in Yellow & Blue
I’ve created a second calendar this year featuring landscapes, waterscapes and flocks of birds. These imagined landscapes are created from images taken in the woods and fields local to my village home in the Winterborne Valley of north Dorset. Calendars are 210mm square. The cover is printed on 250gsm Silk paper and the pages are … More 2021 Imagined Landscapes Calendar
I began this series of images in January, after visiting a starling murmuration at Blashford Lakes in Hampshire. It is created using multiple exposures, often combining ICM photography with static images. I started by combining images of the wetland habitat with images of the birds, but then the project expanded and I included textures, details … More Murmuration
I’ve always loved wild orchids, and living in Dorset I’m able to visit many species all growing within a few miles of my home. During the spring and summer these flowers appear on the chalk downs, in woods and meadows, pastures, dunes, roadside verges, bogs and heaths and some in unmown gardens and brown field … More Wild orchids
To celebrate UK fungus day, which happens on the weekend of the 3rd / 4th Octber this year, I have gathered up a collection of images of some of the fungi I have encountered in the local woods. I hope you might enjoy viewing them. I haven’t been able to identify all the species in … More UK Fungus Day
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