First day of a 31 day challenge to blog every day.

The birds in my garden have been very busy feeding chicks in their nests. I've been waiting (very impatiently :-)) for them to appear at ...

It's great to plan a trip away to get amazing shots of exotic places. But have you ever come back disappointed? Did you miss shots becaus...

This picture of the sun setting over Bamburgh Castle is one of my favourites. You have to be in the right place at the right time of year...

Macro Photography is one of my favourite areas to explore. The camera reveals so much hidden detail. It's always a surprise and a revelat...

Do you take some images that look great but are missing that certain something? Do you have a vision for an image but the components don'...

January can be a gloomy month. The excitement of Christmas is over and New Year celebrations done and dusted. The days are dark, the nigh...

Winter. When the sun shines and the snow lays a magical carpet of light across the world, it's a fairy tale land. The kind of day you can...

Hello white canvas, goodbye inspiration. You’re staring at it again. Palette ready, brushes clean, interruption free time guaranteed. And...

It's been quite a year for me. There has been good and bad as always. Challenges to be addressed. Changes to accept and adapt to. Diabete...

This photo was taken at a little cafe in the heart of the old city of Riga in Latvia. Late April in this part of the Baltic marks the end...

This photograph is of the beautiful Lake Vyrnwy. It's captured as the last of the evening light fades in what is known as the Blue Hour w...

Christmas Fair at Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire. This will be our last show of the year with loads of great gifts to suit all budg...

Are you looking to show something new but short on time to create? Do you want to inject something fresh but clean out of ideas? Have you...

You have an idea, maybe several. You've honed them to perfection but are your goals still eluding you? You have created a thing of joy t...

Ok , so you've seen all the fabulous pictures of tiny creatures, beautiful shimmering dragonfly wings, multifaceted compound eyes of inse...

Are you an Artist or Artisan struggling with the world of commerce? Do you have stalls at craft fairs and shows that attract admiration b...

You have a state of the art DSLR, some top notch lenses and great accessories but your photos don't stand out. You've honed your craft w...

This morning I crawled out of bed begrudgingly, feeling like a bear who should be hibernating in the warm depths of a cave and not gettin...

As I mentioned in the last post, today marks two endings for me, one was the end of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, the second was the end o...