Growing up
Growing up in Yorkshire has always given me good access to the woods, Peak District and coast. I’m very intrepid and can’t stay in the house unless I have to. I have itchy-feet-syndrome; most likely inherited from my grandfather Edwin who was a Peak District Ranger and avid explorer. My school was lucky enough to have a camp on the shore of Windermere in the Lake District, which is where my love for hiking and the outdoors truly flourished. I have many happy memories of hiking all over the Lake District as a teenager with friends while gradually falling in love with the landscape. At university my studies had a very strong Earth Science feel, probably feeding a need to fully-understand the great outdoors I love being in so much.
Landscape Photography
I turned to photography as something I could do on my own, an excuse to travel to far away places and awe-inspiring landscapes, even if I had no one to go with. It fills an emptiness in my life. In this sense I believe my photography to be expressive; an outlet of creativity.
One of my true loves in landscape photography is around the production of airy, calm and open landscapes as those provide restorative qualities and induce a sense of emotional wellbeing that is difficult to pinpoint. However, as time goes on I am more and more attracted to making more complicated smaller scenes of geology and vignettes of the woodland.
I used to think I had a ‘style’ - but this was naivety in my early years a photography. I had a lot of success with my calm grand landscape imagery in 2021 which almost drove me into a box where I felt that’s all I could produce. I have matured artistically since then.
Photography has to be something more than simply capturing images that are pleasing to look at, it’s about the lasting emotion that lives within them, even if it’s only me that can feel that emotion. I can only hope that my photography continues to be true to my own experiences.
Awards, Publications and Media
My images Castaway and Encroaching Cold were highly commended and commended, respectively, in the 2024 Scottish Landscape Photographer of the year.
Awarded 5th place in the 2021 Natural Landscape Photography Awards ‘Photographer of the Year’ category, as well as having my image Lightstrike highly commended.
I was very proud to have been made the featured photographer in On Landscape magazine in 2021. You can read the article here.
I also really enjoyed featuring on the podcast F-Stop, Collaborate and Listen, hosted by Matt Payne. You can listen to the podcast here.
