Attempting Art

Category: Photography

  • Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

    Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

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    The Palm House at Kew Garden is set to close for 5 years for renovations in 2027, I have been meaning to visit for some time but this deadline gave me the push needed to finally make the visit a reality. The gardens are expansive, filled with a collection of beautiful Victorian cast iron and…

  • Cornwall on Samyang’s 35mm and 21mm primes

    Cornwall on Samyang’s 35mm and 21mm primes

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    Cornwall is an area of the UK that I have wanted to visit for many years, mostly due to it housing The Eden Project. However geographically it has always been very distant from me, both when I have lived in Suffolk and in Yorkshire. So up until now I had not got round to making…

  • Photographing Snowdonia – Glyder Fawr

    Photographing Snowdonia – Glyder Fawr

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    Back in september I decided to go to north Wales for a long weekend in the last weeks of the years camping season. The weekend served as a trial by fire test run for a new tent because as seems to be usual for me the days chosen were at the tail end of a…

  • The Industrial North

    The Industrial North

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    Recently I have been working my way North along the North East coast of england visiting the various towns and beaches that I have not previously been to in an attempt to experience new parts of the country and discover new photographic oportunities. Redcar is a place we visited often when I was a child…

  • Thruscross Reservoir Photography

    Thruscross Reservoir Photography

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    At the weekend just gone I drove upto Thruscross Reservoir in North Yorkshire, recently I have been looking around for interesting examples of brutalist structures and civil engineering works. The cold oppresive nature of these structures often juxtaposed with nature or natural elements always draws my attention, I even find a lot of them almost…

  • Autumnal Woodland Photography

    Autumnal Woodland Photography

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    I was late with my first trip out to catch some autumn coloursthis year, fortunately it seems that due to the unseasonally warm weather autumn was slightly late to Dalby forest aswell. Dalby forest consists of over 8,500 acres of woodland in the North Yorkshire Moors National park and I think it is one of…

  • Misty Morning Sunrise Photography

    Misty Morning Sunrise Photography

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    Back in April I took an early morning trip into the Peak District National park chasing mist laden sunrise views of Hope valley from Winnats pass at Mam tor. However predicting mist or fog is notoriously hard to get right, checking the weather forecasts for the then upcoming weekend showed a drop in overnight temperatures…

  • The Puffins Are Back At Flamborough

    The Puffins Are Back At Flamborough

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    Every year a colony of puffins returns to nest on the cliffs at Flamborough head on the Yorkshire coast. As a child i was taken to see them and still have vague memories of it however i had not been back in the nearly 2 decades since then. This year, as we are living up…