Walking on a Cornish beach is a constant source of inspiration (therefore excitement) and relaxation for me. How it can be both at the same time is maybe a bit odd but when I’m wandering with my camera and looking … Read More
This rock stopped me in my tracks whilst walking along the shore on The Lizard peninsula in south west Cornwall. It had so many fabulous colours and layers, like peeling paint or crumbling old plaster on a wall. Just a … Read More
Most fishing trawlers are red or blue or, sometimes, orange. There are obviously exceptions but that’s the norm. Their reflections are gorgeous and rich and I will never tire of photographing them but when I saw a brilliant flash of … Read More
Last spring we went looking for creatures in rock pools on a beach near where we live in Cornwall. It’s something we do fairly often especially when we have young family or friends visiting. There’s always something interesting to be … Read More
This is one of my favourite images. It’s a close-up detail of a small rock in a farmer’s field-boundary wall alongside the South West Coast Path on The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall. It’s a walk I’ve done often, in every … Read More
Looking at intimate details in boatyards I often see “found landscapes” where the colours and marks resemble a seascape, landscape or river view. I set myself a challenge, to look for the bigger picture rather than at a detailed scene … Read More
One of my favourite places to look for images is a working harbour and Newlyn, in the far west of Cornwall, has been a rich source over the years. At the beginning it was often the reflections of the brightly … Read More
There are other stories I’ve written about images found at Poltesco on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. One was about the sand (Sand is just sand-coloured, right?) and one about the pebbles (Poltesco pebbles, imaginitive title that one!) but this … Read More
As I walked along the pontoon there was a pile of small, dark, irregular pieces of…what? I had no idea. On closer inspection it was fragments of corroded, rusted metal. There’s often lots of maintenance work going on at Newlyn … Read More
Sometimes as you approach Newlyn for a photographic trip the weather deteriorates and whilst I don’t mind walking about in the rain it’s often no good for taking photographs. That’s especially true if you’re wanting to capture the bright colours … Read More
Last year we discovered Poltesco, an area on the east coast of the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall managed by the National Trust. It has a rich variety of flora and fauna but I usually go there to photograph the water … Read More
The tiny stream falls through the water garden at Trebah Garden near Falmouth in Cornwall over a series of small steps. Each is only about 30cm wide and mostly drop less far but in a sequence they’re very pretty and … Read More
The extraordinary ‘dinosaur eggs’ of granite piled up on Porth Nanven beach in the far west of Cornwall are always a bit of a surprise, even when you’ve seen them before and know they are there. How can so many … Read More
There’s always a lot of colour in a Cornish harbour, even in winter. When you photograph the reflections in the water you get random associations of boat hulls, pots and buoys, ropes, lettering and sky. All sorts of colour combinations … Read More
Well, no. Sand varies from beach to beach. And it’s not just the colour, but the texture and size of the grains as well. Sometimes it’s a question of whether there’s any sand at all, especially on the north coast … Read More