Tag: photography

Will you take a photo, Mum asked

23 May 2020

"Will you take a photo?" Mum had stopped me. "I want a photo of me that's not in a nice beginner cave" I took the photo. We were exploring a well known mine newr Stoney Middleton and taking Mum on a "real" evening caving trip. When mum started Caving, we kept to large, gentle, horizontal […]

Snowy caving weekend at SWCC with training and photography

17 March 2019

Caving fun in the sun (and snow!) Wonderful time on a snowy weekend at SWCC tagging onto a training and photography trip through OFD2! I feel like OFD2 is now my favourite cave, and so this might be my favourite caving trip? ˜® So much gratitude to the team for having me along and a […]

Hiking Epic Rap : The Background

9 June 2014

So you've seen the Epic Hiking Rap, and now you want the background? Are you serious or is this a joke? I'll leave you to apply Poe's Law. Where did this start? For years, the University of Manchester Hiking Club had a tradition where a specific longstanding club member would write and present a poem […]

Try not to be amazed, confused and maybe a bit tearful, when you read my plans for 2014

24 January 2014

My first plan for 2014 is not to use upworthy-style headlines to drive people to my blog again, but since you're here, why not take a glance? Over the past few years, I've tried to make plans for the upcoming year. Read over some of my plans for the coming year from 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009 – all guaranteed to make me […]

Photojournalism 101: Build your own celltower

23 April 2013

In 2011, I went to the Western Isles of Scotland, to the Isle of Skye and Isle of Rasaay. I recently came across this amusing photo I took in Arnish, Rasaay, where I was camping for the night: I had been trying to maintain an internet connection, via my Nokia N900 phone and Thinkpad x60s […]

Portraits: Where I become a 'published' photographer.

7 February 2013

As I mentioned, I almost never post photos of people, because it's always an unnerving process with much too potential to cause conflict. Therefore, I was very careful to seek full permission to publish this photo, but since it is already been published in various places (excitingly possibly also being my first photo in print […]

Portraits: Bess

6 February 2013

One thing about taking photos of people, is that there's quite a lot to consider, and one of the most central is the feelings of the person you're taking the photograph of. If the person being photographed doesn't like the photo, posting it say, on this blog, might be a good way to make myself […]

Sunset over Manchester

3 February 2013

When I work from home, I usually work with my curtains closed, partly because of prying eyes in the street, and partly because the extra light makes the screen hard to read. Yesterday, I saw, through a gap, a glimmer than suggested I should have a quick look. I didn't regret it:

How best to weather seal your Canon 5D mkII (if you're me)

25 January 2013

CING recently asked on twitter how photographers looked weather sealed their cameras: CING photographers, anyone using this weather seal for your camera? what do you think? #photographer ow.ly/h1a09 — CINGnetwork (@CINGnetwork) January 23, 2013 and so I thought I'd share this photo of me, from Scotland (the summit of Ben MacDui in fact) in December, […]

A photo from the mountains of Kosovo

6 September 2012

I am obviously taking lots of photos of my time in Kosovo. I got out of Pristina for a few days to a small village called Brod and today I went hiking. We stopped at a farmhouse high in the mountains and I took this photo: Of course, there will be more photos in due […]