There can't be many better locations to start your 2025 with than Glencoe!  In this blog post I share the stories and photographs of the few days I spent there in January.  You may be surprised by what you see!

In this blog post I share with you some of the photographs I captured from the recent snowfall on Dartmoor, and I discuss some of the compositional challenges when there is "too much snow". 

In my blog this week I head to one of my favourite Dartmoor locations, East Mill Tor.

In my blog this week I tell you about a rare visit I made to the woodlands and river near Shaugh Prior on Dartmoor to capture this autumnal photograph.

Happy New Year everyone!  And to celebrate the start of 2025 here is a photograph of the start of a new day at The Cobb in Lyme Regis in Dorset.  Read more about his photo in this blog post.

In this blog post I tell you about the three fantastic days I spent photographing the snow on Dartmoor.

Dartmoor is more than just barren rolling hills, it also has its fair share of woodlands and lone trees.  In my blog this week I take advantage of the autumn colours and head to East Dartmoor Woods to have some fun with the camera

In this blog post I head to Dawlish to photograph something a little different but I'm not sure of the results.

Does anyone get nervous sometimes about processing their photos?  Do you get worried that the feeling of joy you had taking the photographs doesn't carry on into the edit?  Learn why I'd been putting off editing these images of Trevose Head in this blog post.

Sometimes it's the small rocky outcrops rather than the tors that are the highlight of a location.

My run of good luck with photographing the heather on Dartmoor continues with a visit to Honeybag Tor. 

My journey to photograph the heather on Dartmoor takes a big step forward with a visit to Chinkwell Tor!

In this blog post I continue my search for a compelling photograph of the heather on Dartmoor by visiting Grimspound. 

In my blog this week I start to tell you the story of my goal to capture a compelling photograph of the heather on Dartmoor. 

Watern Tor is one of Dartmoor's most remote locations, but is it worth a 15km round trip walk to photograph it? 

A good tripod provides should provide a stable platform for a landscape photographers camera.  In this blog post I head to the Scottish Highlands to test out the Manfrotto Befree GT PRO Carbon Fibre tripod.  Will it do the job I need it to? 

I love the view towards the Quiraing but I always seem to struggle to get a photograph I'm happy with in.  I got a chance to go back recently, but was this the best I could get?

With so many amazing spots to photograph in Glencoe it can be hard to know what to shoot.  But sometimes you just need to take a chance, recce a location and then see what happens.  Find out why I captured this image in the blog this week

In the blog this week I'm back in Cornwall to see if I can capture a compelling photograph of the thrift along the Cornish coast?  Did I succeed?  Find out in the blog at

I normally miss thrift season in Cornwall, but not this year!  In the blog this week I head to Trevone to capture some photographs of this beautiful pink flower but capturing and processing the images were a little tricky.

Photographers will often say that you need to find the right subject for the conditions.  As I briefly discuss in the blog this week, there's an element of truth to it. 

I'm on a journey to expand my creative toolbox to include black and white photography. Find out in this blog post why my Dartmoor photography is changing.

In the blog this week I take a long walk to one of Dartmoor’s most remote tor, Wild Tor, and question if it was all worth all the effort!

In my blog this week, I do something that I haven't done before and that's photograph Sharp Tor near Willsworthy on Dartmoor.

In my blog this week, I set a very early alarm call so I can be at Bowerman's Nose on Dartmoor for sunrise, but to my surprise I experience more than just good light.

In my latest blog post I embark on a wild camping adventure to capture photographs of Steeperton Tor on Dartmoor from dusk to dawn!  See more photographs from that adventure and learn why I think wild camping is such an important right.

A trip to Ger Tor on Dartmoor where I expected nothing and got something!

Giving up on Venford Falls and discovering Yar Tor on Dartmoor National Park.

A few years ago, I asked myself the questions, “What do I know about Dartmoor? What makes this place so unique?”.

When I couldn’t answer those questions, I made a commitment to myself to not only see more of Dartmoor, but to learn more about it.

And from that commitment, Discovering Dartmoor was born, a 5 part video series where I explore and photograph 24 of Dartmoor's finest locations and speak to some of Dartmoor's most passionate ambassadors so I could find out for myself what makes Dartmoor so special.

Nothing tests the protection of your camera bag quite like a British music festival!  In my latest blog post I look at the Manfotto PRO Light Backloader bag to see how it performs while I photograph Devon's biggest festival.

180 Megapixel raw files and reduced noise are all claims of Nikon’s Pixel Shift Shooting feature, but is it useful to the landscape photographer?  In this video I show you how to shoot with Pixel Shift (on location) and how to merge the files in post-processing.  I'll also look at the results to see if this is a feature that is useful to landscape photographers.

Looking for a way to make your prints stand out?  In this video I'll tell you how you can take your prints and present them in a way that will give them a WOW factor!  I'll show you how I prepare my landscape photographs for print and then insert them into a Fotospeed Spring Back Binders.  The result is the perfect way to showcase your photographs and make anyone looking at them go "WOW!".

What if I told you there was a photography location that has everything?  Somewhere that will inspire your creativity, provide you with a sense of calm, but also excite you with a rich variety of subjects to photograph.  And all this in on a small Scottish Island.  Welcome to The Outer Hebrides!

The Scottish Hebrides is a photographer’s paradise but with so much to see and to photograph, it can be hard to know where to start.  Explore & Discover The Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides by Christoper Swan and published by fotoVUE aims to transform your time in the area from random chaos to an efficient voyage of discovery and exploration. 

In this special on-location edition of On My Bookshelf, I put Explore & Discover The Outer Hebrides to a real-world test to see if it can get me to a new location so I capture a photograph of the Isle of Harris.

After almost a yearlong gap, I return to Dawlish Warren where I’m treated to a unexpectedly colourful sunrise.