Blogs & Vlogs
Here are the latest articles and videos from my YouTube channel about my travels and photography

18th May 2022
Street Photography in Budapest, Hungary
After 796 COVID-enforced days in the UK, we were finally travelling again. Destination: Budapest....

18th November 2021
Nature and photography in the Test Valley
We residents are very fortunate to live in the beautiful surroundings of the Test...

13th October 2021
Discovering Exmoor National Park in early Autumn
In mid-September 2021 I made my first journey of more than 50 miles from...

22nd September 2021
The photographic challenges of the Valley of Rocks
I visited Exmoor National Park for the first time in September 2021. One of...

29th August 2021
Test Valley Photography: Summer 2021
2021 has been a year of staying local and re-discovering the Test Valley. I...

20th August 2021
Is the relationship between photography and social media broken?
Once upon a time I had 10,000 followers on Google+. True fact! I was...

20th July 2021
Wallop Wheels and Wings 2021 in photos
It felt quite strange to be amongst a large crowd of people in July...

5th July 2021
Longstock Water Gardens: The Test Valley’s hidden landscape jewel
It seems strange to call Longstock Park Water Gardens a “hidden jewel”. It’s been...

18th March 2019
Travel in Namibia: Landscape Photography in Ugab Valley and Twyfelfontein
We explore the Ugab Valley in northern Namibia and head for the UNESCO World...

15th March 2019
Working a landscape photography composition in different ways
In this video I work a few different compositions of a New Forest valley...

13th March 2019
4 things I learned in creating a new photography portfolio
How do you approach building a new photography portfolio? In this vlog I examine...

26th February 2019
Looking for Adders in the New Forest
Sometimes the actual photography, pressing the shutter, is the easy bit. Honing our fieldcraft...

18th February 2019
Travel in Namibia: Wildlife Photography in Etosha National Park
We spend 3 days in Etosha National Park, Namibia photographing wildlife and exploring the...

13th February 2019
I HATE tripods – so I created my own low-angle custom rig
In this video I confess to finding tripods a pain and show you how...

9th February 2019
How to crop wildlife photography images
In this video I talk about a fundamental of post-processing, how to crop your...

30th January 2019
Travel in Namibia: Waterberg Plateau – Hoba Meteorite – Mushara Bush Camp
In the second of our Namibia series we head north from Windhoek to the...

17th January 2019
Travel in Namibia: Windhoek & Daan Viljoen Game Reserve
In the first of our Namibia series we set out from the UK to...