Scottish Highlands
The Scottish Highlands, winter … Continue reading
Category Archives: Locations
Lake District
A flying visit – literally – to the Lake District for a weekend exploring the backroads near Keswick and west of Ambleside. This was my first visit to England’s most celebrated national park in something like 30 years, and it … Continue reading
Night in the Tetons
Cunningham Cabin, Grand Teton National Park The Cunningham Cabin north of Jackson, dating (originally) from 1885. It’s easy to imagine what a remote location this must have been back then! According to Wikipedia “the cabin was the scene of a … Continue reading
Total lunar eclipse
Total lunar eclipses aren’t nearly as rare as total Solar eclipses (the Earth is a lot larger than the Moon, and casts a much bigger shadow), but they still don’t come around all that often. After considerable planning – and … Continue reading
Driggs, Idaho
The Tetons are perhaps North America’s most iconic mountain range on account of the lack of foothills on the east side, which makes for a dramatically vertical vista as seen from the plains north of Jackson. The west side is … Continue reading
Stars at the Scala dei Turchi
A star trail panorama shot at the Scala dei Turchi (literally the “staircase of the Turks”) in southern Sicily this summer. During the day this is an unusual, and unusually popular, white limestone formation, but after sunset it was very … Continue reading
Fall in the Tetons
I’m back from what is always one of the highlights of the year – a trip with my brother hiking, photographing and viewing wildlife in the wild areas of North America. After several years seeking out bears in Alaska, this … Continue reading
A long hot summer
I spent my summer in Europe, with stays variously for work and pleasure in Liverpool, Kent and Cornwall in the UK, Chamonix, Sicily and Copenhagen. It will take some time to process the images, but in the meantime here’s a … Continue reading
Trail Ridge Road
Trail Ridge Road, which reaches more than 12,000 feet en route between the east and west sides of Rocky Mountain National Park, has just opened for the season (it usually opens on Memorial Day). There’s still too much snow high … Continue reading
Night in Taipei
A few images of Taipei at night… Taipei 101. Taipei is not, for the most part, a city of skyscrapers, and as a result Taipei 101 – the world’s second highest building – looms particularly impressively over the streets from … Continue reading