Privileged to be attending the First Responder Emergency Care course with other military veterans for @vetrun180 . Thanks to @ian.scott135 from Prometheus Medical for the excellent training today.
#medic
#photography
#expedition
#veterans
#britisharmy
#medicaltraining
#britishmilitary
#vetshelpingvets
#militarycharity
#militarytraining
#charity
@dedmansimon
@rossjamesturner
@stevesampher
@bobby__burgess
@prometheusmedicalltd
Bit of an unusual day today, didn't expect to photographing here this morning. As always very special photographing veterans with @vetrun180
#veterans
#military
#adventuretherapy
#vetrun180
#britisharmy
#royalmarines
#britisharmedforces
@dedmansimon
@timnicolini
@bobby__burgess
@rossjamesturner
@stevesampher
@jamesdedman
@vetrun180
A field full of wild flowers that I've passed numerous times in the last few weeks and not made the time to stop at. By the time I got to photographing them, they had been flattened by heavy rain.
A bit bruised, battered and having lost a few petals they are not at their best, but with a little sunlight and a bit of time they will be standing tall again.
#wildflowers
#landscpaephotography
#naturephotography
#nature
#northumberland
#northeastengland
#lovenorthumberland
#beautifulbritain
#britain
#britishlandscape
#photosofengland
#photosofbritain
#flowers
#flowersofinstagram
#flowerstagram
The North East coast, rugged and beautiful. I’ve spent a lot of time here over the last few weeks. The rhythm of breaking waves, the chime of pebbles being smoothed by the movement of the water, the call of Oystercatchers and kittiwakes, a hypnotic and relaxing soundscape. Tynemouth, Marsden, Roker and yesterday Seaham with @venetiaparkins
#coast
#tynemouth
#southshields
#seaham
#marsdengrotto
#roker
#northeastengland
#northumberland
#tyneside
#tyneandwear
#seascape
#uklandscape
#thisprettyengland
#coastalliving
#landscpaephotography
Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile
A few from the archive, photographed a few years ago at The Alnwick Garden. It had been raining most of the morning, but when it stopped the flowers glistened and their colours were even more vibrant.
#alnwic#thealnwickgarden
#alnwickgardens
#flowers
#flowerstagram
#flowersofinstagram
#agapanthus
#photosofbritain
#naturephotography
#gardensofinstagram
Foxgloves in Slaley forest. It seems only moments since the trees had no leaves and the vegetation had died back. Now the forest is overwhelmed by the green of summer.
#forest
#nature
#foxglove
#photography
#photosofbritain
#tree_shotz
#treesofinstagram
#tree_pictures
#tree_brilliance
#tree_magic
#gloriousbritain
#photosofbritain
#genuinebritain
#visionsofbritain
#visitengland
#scenicbritain
Tall Poppy Syndrome is a term used to put down people of genuine talent and merit. Particularly in Australia the term is used to make people feel bad about achieving or succeeded. I have spent a life time being treated in that way. Being built up to be something special, put on a pedestal, so that people can tear me down. Being pushed to succeed, but having done it being told that I was: ‘too intelligent for my own good’, ‘think I know everything’, ‘that I’m not paid to think’, that I ‘should know my place’, that I am ‘overbearing’, ‘hard work’, ‘too sensitive’, 'have an attitude problem', ‘think too hard’. I have been told countless times that I inspire people, particularly in my work. I always go out of my way to do the best for people, always go beyond expectations to help people, yet even those closest to me, use my talents, skills, honesty, integrity to beat me with.
This week it has been that I am ‘too honest’ and ‘too direct’ even after being asked to be honest and direct. I am an excellent communicator, my work for over 20 years has been about communicating messages to people, either through photography, film, design, writing or with my voice. Yet even with a very clear message impossible to misinterpret, I am still criticised. No, in fact told that I had not done enough. In reality I was being blamed for someone else’s mistake. But even with those facts proven and solidified, I, as always am the one that has had to take the blame and the punishment. Put back in my place, my head pushed down, tortured for doing the right thing.
How do we deal with that? We live in a society where being the best is all important, but also where anyone who is the best is relentlessly criticised. I have always struggled to find people who accept me the way that I am. In 2019 shortly after the death of my wife and when, with the exception of only a few, my ’friends’ deserted me, I promised to surround myself only with people who appreciated me for who I was and what I could do and move away from those that didn’t. That group of people continues to get ever smaller.
#poppies
#poppy
#wildflowers
#northyorkshire
#landscpaephotography
#nature
#photography
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20 Days
100page Softback 210mmx210mm.
My project ‘20 Days’ documents the diagnosis and subsequent death of my wife Suzanna from cancer. It is intended to provoke conversation and discussion about cancer, death, illness and how we deal with the emotional turmoil of losing someone close to us, subjects that are still taboo in modern society.
#photographybooks
#photography
#cancer
#medicalphotography
#universityofsunderland
#documentaryphotography
I have spent so much of my life in the great outdoors, I run, walk, cycle, work in the forests and on the hills, I travel the world and the country. It used to be a rare thing for me to be in the house. When mental illness hit, I receded, isolated myself in a room, shut the door and hardly come out of it for three years.
This last couple of months has been a struggle, restricted again, isolated but not by my own choosing. As life was beginning to become the wonderful adventure I wanted it to be, I was, like everyone, stopped in my tracks.
Since the relaxation of the restrictions, I have been able to get back out into the outdoors and most importantly travel to the places I would usually spend my weekends. This weekend it was out to the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire Three Peaks, mixed weather, blasts of cold wind, but wonderful to be back outside properly.
#yorkshirethreepeaks
#yorkshiredales
#yorkshire
#landscapephotography
#theyorkshiredales
#yorkshiredalesnationalparkengland
#gloriousbritain
#photosofbritain
#genuinebritain
#visionsofbritain
#visitengland
#scenicbritain
20 Days - Delivery of my first 'real' book, about my wife Suzanna's diagnosis and eventual death from cancer in 2018. The book is part of my final project for my degree @sunderlanduni a particularly difficult project to work through.
Thank you to everyone who has given input on this project particularly @dalehardymultimedia @gilespenfound Sarah Coverdale and Peter Fryer.
@nepn
@sunderlandcreative
@northerncentreofphotography
@sunderlanduni
#documentaryphotography
#photographybooks
#photography
#cancer
#northeastengland
An early morning wander into the woods. The golden rays of morning sun filtered through tree tops from a beautiful blue sky. Crystal dew drops glistened on whispers of grass and delicate flower petals. I stumbled upon a beech wood that I had never been to before. The ground, as though covered in a sudden summer snow fall, was carpeted in heavenly scented wild garlic and bluebells.
#northumberland
#countydurham
#photography
#woods
#trees
#tree_brilliance
#bluebells
#tree_shotz
#tree_pictures
#tree_magic
#treephotography
#landscapephotography📷
#greatbritain
#capturingbritain
#visitbritain
A series of images taken at various beaches in West Cornwall.
There is something about photographs of water taken with slow shutter speeds.
The resulting images are not documentary, they don’t show something as we see it in the real world. Instead they capture and reveal a period of time, reveal details deep in the shadows, saturate colours, creating something closer to an emotional and ethereal representation of the world. The longer the exposure the greater those sensations become.
#seascape
#landscapephotography📷
#sea
#water
#slowshutter
#longexposure
#landscape_captures
#cornwall
#cornwallcoast
#cornishcoast
#lovecornwall
#explorecornwall
#godrevey
#visitcornwall
#scenicbritain
#uklandscape
#visionsofbritain
#uklandscape
One of my favourite places. The forest where I escape to; to run, to walk, to photograph, to absorb the sounds of nature, to find peace of mind. I am missing it deeply. The closest I can get at the moment is to look through the thousands of images I have captured of the place and remember the time I have spent there.
#forest
#slaleyforest
#trees
#woodlandsandwater
#splendid_earth
#treesofinstagram
#splendid_woodlands
#naturephotography
#northeastengland
#northumberland
#landscapephotography
#justlandscapes
#gloriousbritain
#genuinebritain
#landscapelover
#travelphotography
#wanderlust
#visitnorthumberland
#stayhomesavelives
Another selection of images from China, this time Yangshuo with its iconic mountains and paddy fields. Extremely hot and humid, but stunningly beautiful in its greenery.
I walked over twenty miles on the silent back lanes, wandered by the river. I sheltered from the rain under a huge tree alive with the chirps of Cicadas my soaked shirt drying in minutes in the scorching heat, I watched a woman herding ducks up an irrigation trench in a paddy field. Yangshuo is like a land from a fantasy novel, the hills protruding into air like a child’s drawing, the animals, insects and plants unrealistically huge, the rural landscape overwhelmed by growth.
#china
#yangshou
#wanderlust
#travel
#travelgram
#adventure
#travelphotography
#traveltheworld
#beautifuldestinations
#outdoors
#goexplore
#nikonuk
#nikonphotography
#travelphotographer
#TLPicks
#nakedplanet
Australia 2017, the last time I travelled abroad with my wife Suzanna. It was my second trip there in two years and it had a huge effect on us both, so much that we were considering emigrating. We were still talking about it when she was in hospital in the weeks before she died. Once her health improved, once she beat the cancer, we were going to take the leap.
We travelled thousands of miles, but explored only a tiny part of such a vast place. Our intention was to return and explore the rest of it.
This trip marked so many milestones for me, an improvement in every part of my life and I saw Suzanna inspired and growing in so many ways.
#Australia
#SeeAustralia
#visitaustralia
#lovensw
#visitvictoria
#ilovesydney
#sydney
#iloveaustralia
#beautifuldestinations
#wonderfulplaces
#travellife
#wanderlust
#aroundtheworld
#aussie_images
#thegreatoceanroad
#focusaustralia
#landscapephotography
Two years ago, I was invited over to China by a good friend who lives in Shenzhen.
Another fantastic adventure. Definitely not the tourist option, but brilliant to see how people live, in a different part of the world and to experience a culture very different to ours.
The city has only really existed since the 1980s, becoming a centre of capitalism for China. People go to Shenzhen from all over China to work. China really is not what the Western media would make it out to be.
I was privileged to meet some incredible people who treated me with the deepest respect, shared their food with me and gave me the most amazing opportunities. I am looking forward to heading back there at some point in the future.
#china
#chinatravel
#documentaryphotography
#travelphotography
#wanderlust
#chinadestinations
#travelling
#travel_captures
#instapssport
#photosoftheworld
#nikonuk
#peoplephotography
Saint Michael’s Mount, Marazion, Cornwall. 2002-2012
For ten years I lived with this beach at the end of the street. It was a daily routine to get out of bed just before dawn and make my way to end of the road to take photographs.
Sometimes the sunrise would be stunning and colourful and awe inspiring and would burn into the blue of daytime. At other times it would show its colours between sheets of rain and cloud and then be gone. These were the ones I loved. A personal display just for me, that those still in bed wouldn’t even be aware had happened.
For a while, returning to Cornwall revived only bad memories for me. Penzance was the place I married my wife Suzanna, brought up our children, where I ran a successful business and had so many great experiences and big chunks of that are now gone, most significantly my wife.
In February I returned to Cornwall for a short time and it felt like I had turned a corner in my grief. Around every corner was another memory of great times, of successes, of walks along that beach, of wonderful moments shared and St Michael’s Mount in the background of so many of those memories.
#stmichaelsmount
#landscapephotography
#cornwall
#cornwallcoast
#cornishcoast
#lovecornwall
#walkingcornwall
#cornishcoast
#penzance
#explorecornwall
#visionsofbritain
#visitengland
#scenicbritain
#marazion
#uklandscape
Croatia is a photographers paradise. An incredibly diverse country with European, Italian, Roman and Soviet influences visible in the landscape and the architecture.
The first time I was there was as a soldier in 1995, landing at Split airport at the end of the Yugoslavian war. I’ve returned a couple or times since. The first time back was an odd experience, a million miles from what I remember, Croatia is regaining quickly the tourist status it had before the war.
The country is beautiful, wonderful landscapes, characterful cities and towns, the people are incredibly friendly, but there are relics of war everywhere. Bullet mark ridden buildings in derelict villages that have been deserted for decades and roads lined with mine field signs. For me, it is a stark reminder of how awful people can be to one another.
Despite that it is still an amazing place to travel to especially away from the cities where a traditional style of life prevails.
#croatia
#balkans
#crostagram
#croatia_photography
#croatiatravel
#travelphotography
#landscapephotgraphy
#landscapelovers
#photography
#photographytour
#photographytraining
#wanderlust
#kroatia
I’ve spent a lot of time photographing Scotland over the years. This trip, taking a group of people to the Isle of Harris was spectacular. Stunning sunrises and sunsets, incredibly changeable weather which gave us stunning skies over the rolling hills and rugged coastline.
The woman in the first photograph, lived in a house across the road from where this photo was taken. The derelict cottage behind her, is where her and her husband first lived when they were married over fifty years earlier. Harris is one of those places that really grips you. It is inhospitable while being stunningly beautiful and you could almost imagine in a fairy tale version of life, buying a croft and moving there to live.
@walt3592
@craig7544
#scotland
#isleofharris
#outerhebrides
#scotalndtravel
#scotlandshots
#scotlandlover
#photographytour
#photographytraining
#landscapephotography
#photography
#scottishscenery
#scenicbritain
#lovebritain
I have been teaching since I started my career as a photographer, initially in the Army and then countless workshops and courses in the UK and abroad. These images are from a photography trip to Morocco, ran with my good mate and fellow photographer Kim Walton.
Morocco is a photographer’s paradise. The colours alone are worth capturing, but the mix of historic buildings and slightly dishevelled residents are sensational. The country survives on tourism and most of what you will find in the old city centres, is for the benefit of tourists. Once you head away from the cities though, that is replaced by a diverse landscape. From the Saharan desert sands to the snow capped Atlas Mountains, it is stunningly inspiring.
@walt3592
#morocco
#northafrica
#sahara
#saharadesert
#wanderlust
#moroccotravels
#documentaryphotography
#landscapephotography
#topmoroccophotography
#travel
#travelphotography
#tourism
#nikon