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Musings on photography, mental health and mountain life.
Long Exposure Photography: UK Cities by Night
Finding myself back in the UK and reasonably bound to cities, I decided to work on my long exposure photography. Here are some shots and the story behind them from Manchester, Newcastle and London.
Spring Photography in Yorkshire:
Injury is restricting me from adventuring into the alpine or even the mountains of the UK. Finding beauty more locally is what this post is about
More Speed, Less Haste on Gran Paradiso
Last year, between lockdowns and injuries, I wanted to capture sunrise at the summit of Gran Paradiso. After this, I wanted to fly from below the summit back to the car. This is the story of my attempt(s).
Introspection
As you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life you could save…
Commit Fully!
As much as this is a blog post about me making a commitment to myself for my future, it acts just as well as a metaphor for life. We often fall short of our potential through not giving it everything we have…
Happiness and the Necessity of Risk
It’s been on my mind for a while to try and put into words how I have come to realise that my happiness seems dependent upon a certain amount of personal, physical risk…
Monch, Mindfulness and Salvation
I am drawn to landscape photography, perhaps because it’s potentially the easiest of the different genres, or perhaps (as I like to think) because it helps me to realize the beauty around us.
Lose The Ego
If someone chooses to make an ill thought out decision, or reduce their margin for error to none, then I guess within an unregulated ‘sport’ that is their prerogative…
In it to Win it..
Quick write up of an amazing day skiing in Scotland during a trip back to the motherland.
Skiing the Monch
Lying, waiting for the early alarm to go off in the Mönchsjochhütte, I was like a kid before Christmas. The previous night’s sunset had been pretty special and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky…