Welcome to ‘For the love of landscapes’ a weekly musing on photography, landscape, and getting our with your camera.
My aim is to provide you with a weekly dose of inspiration to help you with your own photographic journey. I love photography and although I believe the old adage, ‘a picture is worth a 1000 words’, I also love writing. So my weekly posts will be a mixture of these two things woven into some (hopefully) inspiring content.
If you have read anything about me or listened to my interview on the Photo walk Podcast you will know that I am a big nature lover and photography is one of the biggest ways I feel I can connect with the world around me.
I have always taken pictures, although I fear that my first images taken on a really simple Kodak film camera were not very good. They are however still treasured for the memories that they invoke.
I came to professional photography through a rather unusual route when I moved to Suffolk in 2007. I bought a hundred year old Dutch sailing barge, gutted her and fitted her our with a sumptuous wooden interior surrounding a beautiful red range. She was moored at Pin Mill and travelled the Suffolk waterways. She was also my introduction to ‘proper’ photography.
Promotional and marketing photos were my starting point - I needed them for my business and so I bought a DSLR and began photographing the Suffolk landscape. And from here my photographic journey began.
I got involved in the local sailing scene, and began working at sailing clubs and sailing schools photographing members and students learning to sail. I photographed regattas and children’s sailing lessons in the school holidays, and larger sailing events on the east coast throughout the summer. I met a lot of useful contacts including magazine editors and a freelance journalist who I went on to work with on a regular basis.
I am a firm believer that if you want to do something then you should just go out and do it. Make your own luck and things will happen. If you want to be a photographer then go out and take photos.
So here I am, my photography has grown hugely since my days of barge ownership. I now work professionally as a full time landscape photographer. I design my own range of cards and calendars, have written and self published 4 photography books and 2 local guide books and I also run photography workshops, holidays and photo walks.
Thank you so much for reading my first post, I hope it has given you an quick insight into who I am and what I do. If you would like to follow along for free your support would mean the world.
I am excited for this journey. I can’t wait to Learn from you. I am a beginner photographer and I have caught the photography bug! I mainly post my photos on Instagram but very few people see them. Thanks for sharing your genius.