The Great Outdoors!

Images taken with a Nikon Z f using a TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 Fisheye manual lens. I have deliberately not attempted to correct the optical aberrations apart from ensuring the images were correctly aligned. All images post processed in Adobe Lightroom Classic with additional denoising using DxO Pure Raw 5.

Royal Gunpowder Mills is a historic location in Waltham Abbey, Essex. Formerly a factory dedicated to the research, development, and manufacture of gunpowder, explosives and propellants for more than 300 years.

A collection of images using colour, monochrome and infrared photography.

Back to the glory days of steam.

Opened in 1839 Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, designed by architect Stephen Geary. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides.

A series of pictures taken during an extensive guided tour inside Tower Bridge.

A series of pictures taken in late October 2024 in the heart of Epping Forest.

Pictures taken in the gardens at Tintinhull. A National Trust property.

Pictures taken during a recent visit to the county.

Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Waltham Abbey, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999.

North Weald Station on the Epping Ongar Railway.

A series of images taken at Highgate Cemetery.

A small collection of images taken during a brief walk along the beach at Lyme Regis in Dorset.

A small collection if images taken at Beer in Devon.

A series of images taken at Waltham Abbey. All images taken using a Nikon Z series camera and a Viltrox 20mm f/2.8 lens

Images taken at Wallasea Island.

A series of images taken on Shoeburyness East Beach.

Landscape photography studies using Lee Filters to manage light and image exposure.

A series of images taken during a workshop in October 2021 along the Pembrokeshire coast.

A series of images taken while walking through areas of woodland and open spaces in Chislehurst, Kent.

A series of images taken around the Ouse Valley Railway Viaduct in West Sussex.

Long exposure images on a stormy autumn day.

Landscape images taken along a section of the South Downs Walk.

Stone tower with inserted dovecotes. Probably erected in the 16th century as a watch tower, possibly on the site of an earlier lookout tower. Converted into a dovecote in the 18th century, presumably by the Berkeley family.

The Radić Pavilion was installed at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in March 2015, at the end of Oudolf Field. Designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, this unique structure was first unveiled as the Serpentine Gallery 2014 Pavilion. Since 2000, the Serpentine Galleries have run an annual programme of temporary structures by internationally-renowned architects. The pavilion sits naturally within the landscape at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, creating a dialogue between the gallery complex and pavilion, and their relationship with the garden.

I have always wanted to capture the derelict splendour of the West Pier in Brighton. I hope these images will do it justice.

Images of the beautiful autumn colours taken duirng a walk through Painshill Park. My sincere thanks to Michael Elefheriades of the Nikon Owners Club for finding this wonderful place and organising the walk. (You can follow Michael on Flickr).

Landscape and seascape images taken during a trip to Pembrokeshire coast in June 2019. All images taken using a Nikon D750. Post processing was in Adobe Lightroom Classic with some additional processing for colour images using DxO Viveza. Monochrome images additionally post processed using DxO Silver Efex Pro.2.

A series of images taken during a short break on the East Sussex coast. All images were taken using a Nikon D750 with a Nikon 28mm f1.8 lens. All were post processed using Adobe Lightroom. Additional processing for the colour images used DxO Viveza, and Silver Efex Pro.2 for monochrome.

Images taken during a half day walk through Dungeness Point. All images were captured with a Nikon D750 and a Nikon prime 28mm f1.8 wide angle lens. All were carefully post processed in Adobe Lightroom. The monochrome images were additionally post processed in DxO Silver Efex Pro.2.

Images taken during a three day photographic workshop along short sections of the Pembrokeshire coastal path in September 2018. All images were captured using a Nikon D750. All were carefully post processed in Adobe Lightroom. The monochrome images were additionally post processed in DxO Silver Efex Pro.2.

A series of images taken in the Walthamstow urban wetlands in early October.

Images were post processed using Adobe Lightroom and various Nik collection plug-ins including Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

Images taken recently in the grounds of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, West London. I have published a mixture of macro photographs and of sculptures being exhibited in the grounds. Images were post processed using Adobe Lightroom with additional post processing for the monochrome images in Silver Efex Pro.2.

Pictures taken in the grounds of Scotney Castle at Lamberhurst, Kent.