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Yesterday was a long day. Picked up 2nd batch of prints from Ilford Lab at Ilford factory in Mobberley. They managed to do all 10 of the images that I dropped off on Tuesday. Then over to Sheffield to pick […]

I’m working flat out to prepare for the Spring Fair trade show. We set up our stand on Saturday and the show runs from Sunday 5th to Thursday 10th February. Jan and I will be there the whole time and […]

Yesterday, Friday 14th, was the last full day of our trip to our good friends Rob and Annie in Boulder Colorado. It started for me with a massage of my bad back to help prepare me for the return to […]

Thursday 13th January: today was probably our last snowshoeing day in Colorado this winter. After consulting my Colorado snowshoeing book we decided to visit Lost Lake near Nederland in the Indian Peaks Wilderness west of Boulder. We parked at the […]

Wednesday 12th January: our last ski day was split between Keystone and Arapahoe Basin, separated by about a 10 minute car journey. We started at Keystone thinking that the snow would be in better condition in the morning. We had […]

Tuesday 11th January: We had moved to Eagle (not Avon as I put in last blog!) ready for skiing Beaver Creek today. The day was fine but jolly cold, like yesterday, with a few clouds. The ski runs were amazingly […]

Several inches of snow yesterday had freshened up all the slopes and we made our way to Snowmass near Aspen for Monday 10th. It was very cold and a bit breezy. The temperature was quoted as -27C at one of […]

The weather broke last night and today, Sunday 9th, we woke to 4 inches of snow outside with more falling all the time, just as forecast. We had planned for a snowshoe day so the weather was fine for this. […]

It’s Friday night and we spent today skiing 2 of the 4 ski areas at Aspen. We started with Aspen Highlands for photos of the Maroon Bells mountains. These are very shapely peaks over 14000 feet high. I already have […]

Today, Friday 7th, was a travel day from Telluride to Carbondale. We are skiing Aspen over the next 3 days and this was the only place with reasonably priced accommodation but a short drive away. It was another blue sky […]

It’s Friday 7th and we are driving to Carbondale. No Vodafone phone signal in Telluride and wifi not working properly in Blackberry so unable to post since leaving Durango on Tuesday. Blackberry has been picking up emails intermittently at hotel […]

Today, Tuesday 4th, was a travel day. We left Durango at about 10am heading for Telluride. The road was coated in hard snow and ice but we felt quite safe with Rob driving. I was hoping for some photos, especially […]

Today, Monday 3rd, was a ski day so we headed to the Durango Mountain Resort, previously called Purgatory Ski Area. Looks like they recruited a marketing man who spotted the obvious drawback with such a name! It was still cold […]

Today, Sunday 2nd January, was a ski day – at Wolf Creek in southern Colorado. We stayed in South Fork about 20 miles north but drove to Wolf Creek for breakfast at 8am. It was jolly cold, down to -17F. […]

It was second time lucky having just finished a great few hours taking photographs at the Great Sand Dunes National Park. We arrived at 2.15pm and finished as the sun went down at 4.45pm. It was spectacular (compared with the […]

There was no new snow to add to the 8 inches or so of Thursday. Jan and I went for a walk over Red Rocks on the outskirts of Boulder. These are shapely rocks that are a pinky colour and […]

Today was a rest day, just the 8 miles in snow storms! Jan and I started the day picking up our skis from being serviced. Then Rob and I made our way to the Avery Brewery just outside Boulder. The […]

Having flown into Denver Airport at 5.30pm Monday we decided to have an easy day Tuesday snowshoeing the 13235 foot peak, Mount Sniktau. This wasn’t the most sensible thing as Jan was quite ill from altitude sickness for the first […]

I’m just sitting in the BA lounge at London Heathrow airport waiting for the flight to Denver. Jan has worryingly gone off to the shops with her credit card. This is our annual ski trip and for the 3rd year […]

The gallery at our house in Tunstead Milton has been refurbished. with an extension, new lighting, new gallery hanging system and simple white decoration. Here are a few images to give you an idea of what it looks like and there […]

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Today I was in the Gallery in Buxton Pavilion Gardens. It was a cold clear day, about -6C, and I walked there and back (about 12 miles). It started with good views of the lunar eclipse which covered 3/4 of […]

All Christmas orders are now printed. The last few will be shipped by Royal Mail Special Delivery or DHL on Monday. Have despatched quite a few since Thursday. It was quite busy this Christmas because we were away for 4 […]

I’ve had a bit of a cough and felt quite ill for a couple of weeks now. The doctor said it was a bit of bronchitis, he didn’t say which bit though. Just finished a week of Penicillin which has […]

We have a stand at the Contemporary Craft and Art Fair at RHS Wisley near Guildford and Woking in Surrey (GU23 6QB for sat nav). Jan is there on her own as I should have doing a show in Buxton […]

It is the Buxton Artist and Designer’s Fair in Buxton this weekend. Unfortunately, I am unable to be there as I have a bad cough and chest infection. If you were planning on visiting me on my stand please consider coming to […]

We were hearing about heavy snow in the east of the UK and Scotland but next to nothing here. Then yesterday we had an inch or so. Should have been in the Gallery in Buxton but received an early phone […]

It’s a couple of degrees below freezing here in the Peak District today and we have blue sky and sunshine! Everything frosty would be great for pictures but today is a darkroom printing day – catching up on orders that […]

Finally, we made it home yesterday morning at 11am. I lasted about an hour before going to bed to catch up on sleep – I can’t sleep on planes. Apart from a few hours yesterday evening I slept through to […]

We are in the airport lounge at Sydney sipping a cold glass of white wine. Summer has arrived in the 3 weeks since we were last here on the way to New Zealand. Temperatures are top 20’s here today so […]

Just settling down after some night-time photography in Sydney. It’s is almost full moon so took a few photos using this – above Opera House, in some building shots, etc. Quite a warm evening wandering around. The day started in […]

Just at the gate waiting for our flight to Sydney at the start of our journey home from Christchurch in South Island, New Zealand. Picked up my 99 processed films on Monday from ImageLab after a day around the Banks […]

Today was a travel day. We left our chalet in Aoraki Mount Cook by 9am in the rain. Clouds were way down on the tops and it was still windy. No sunshine and no views as we moved closer to […]

We awoke to a blue sky day. A few odd clouds came and went through the morning. We had decided to walk the Hooker Valley trail from Mount Cook village, a round trip of about 11 miles. No clouds at […]

Today we headed walked up to Sealy Tarns above Mount Cook village for reflection photos of Mount Cook. It was a very pleasant walk, about 3 miles each way and 400m of ascent and we reached the tarns at 10.15am. […]

This morning we had a leisurely breakfast before heading out to Moeraki headland. Some nice rocky coves on one side and the fishing village harbour on the other. A seal performed for us amongst the kelp. We watched it for […]

Travelled from Milford Sound today and arrived at Moeraki late afternoon. Went straight to the boulders on the beach for pictures. Fortunately, it was high tide and the water was gushing over the large spheres on the beach. They really […]

Forgot to mention in last blog that one of my carbon fibre tripods developed a fault yesterday. I was using my small Gitzo 1028, since we had been walking, holding it by the head when the legs fell on the […]

We have been in Milford Sound in the New Zealand Fiordland. No mobile signal so no blog (or emails) for 2 days! The day we arrived (early afternoon) the weather was great, blue skies and a few clouds and high […]

We moved on from Wanaka today, but just an hour or so down the road to Queenstown. We started with a walk down by the lake before deciding that we should do at least part of the planned route to […]

No blog yesterday as we transferred from Franz Josef to Wanaka. I usually write last thing at night but yesterday evening heard that my PhD supervisor, Prof Dudley Williams, had died after a short illness. He was a big influence […]

Today was a bit damp for most of the day. Clouds were down on the tops all day so we headed to the coast. Okarito Beach was first stop but the rain was torrential so we sat in the car […]

The forecast was for a reasonable start to the day before the clouds thickened and rain followed in the evening. An early breakfast was called for, 6.30am. We had a short drive to the start of the walk near the […]

Today was a long travel day. We had to drive from Nelson in the north of South Island of New Zealand to Franz Josef, about half-way down the west coast. We had an early breakfast and were on the road […]

Didn’t quite fit in doing blog yesterday before falling asleep! Tried using Blackberry browser again and it was extremely slow so gave up and am back to Opera Mini, this posts blank blogs which I then add text to from […]

After 3 quite strenuous mountain days around Tongariro today was a restful travel day. We travelled south to Wanganui for a few beach shots. Black sand with lots of old tree trunks lying around. Not usually the best subject to […]

Today we woke up to wall-to-wall blue sky and our first view of the top of Ngauruhoe (seems to be pronounced locally as Nora-Hooey), the local shapely volcano. On such a nice day we decided to walk Mount Tongariro, a […]

We awoke to blue sky everywhere except the 2 mountains we walked over yesterday. Surprisingly the highest peak, Mount Ruapehu, was clear, it also has a good covering of snow. I had planned for us to go to Tama Lakes, […]

We left Sydney this morning in the sunshine and flew to Auckland in New Zealand, also sunny but a bit cooler. Both airports did hand-checks on my film to avoid x-rays; jolly decent of them as you don’t get this […]

We have had a great day in Sydney. The sun arrived early afternoon and have retraced my steps re-taking shots I had already taken when it was overcast. Now on ferry from Circular Quays to Darling Harbour to meet our […]