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Trip 10 - wild nights and mud

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I was off on a stereotypes trip again, first a couple of days down in Kent on the south coast, then nearly a week in Essex. I was thinking wide boys, white stilettos and motorways. Of course I am a landscape photographer, not a paparazzi, so there was no chance of white stilettos, and I normally try to avoid the wide boys, especially wild camping on their land. I…

Trip 9 - Summer to Winter in a day

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Winter has arrived, missing out autumn, and it is making me work now. No more sitting around in the sun watching the world go by, it cold short days that need to be busy to stay warm, well planned to make meetings and ensure I get all the locations photographed in a day. Subtler colour palettes, and long shadowed orange light. Long nights in the tent where I can…

Trip 8 - sleeping arrangements for cycle tourists!

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Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria were all counties I passed through. It was quite a range of regional identities to move through, and a very wide range of sleeping arrangements for this cycling photographer, from hotels to totally dodgy wildcamps.

I started not far from home in Doncaster. Off the train and pedal into the town…

Trip 7 diary - on moving mountains

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Wow, what a trip! Mentally I just wasn't ready for this trip, it required a huge amount of effort to resist cycling to the nearest train station and going home. I felt drained, threadbare, homesick and just overwhelmed by the enormity of the remaining number of locations still to shoot. (I won't finish till April 2012 with at least another 38 locations to shoot.)

Sympathetically, The Wildlife Trusts…

Trip 6 diary - time to relax

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After the craziness of mucho, or is that macho, cycling in Wales and the South West of England, this trip was a relative holiday. Hardly any cycling as the locations were close together, or so far apart that I was on public transport. And as we go into autumn the days are shorter so I can lie in till 05:30 and still be up and about with a camera…