thoughts on photography from on high

13th April 2017, Embleton Bay, 8am

Watching the world go by...

I'm sitting back home reading an article with quotes from photographers about photography. It's very inspiring.

I think this one goes well with this morning's photograph and sums up what photography means to me.

"I believe photography – like many other things one does in life – is the exact expression of who you are at a given moment. Every time you compose and release the shutter, you give voice to your thoughts and opinions of the world around you." Paolo Pellegrin

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lying cameras?

12th April 2017, Football Hole, 4pm

Rambling along the beach...

12th April 2017, Bamburgh Beach, 10am

Today's PhotoWalk with a very nice couple.  It was a pleasure to spend a couple of hours in their company talking photography.

The day started cloudy and grey.

But though the sun came out and the beach got busier it was still very cold.

These photos show that choosing the moment to press the shutter can yield very different results (no PhotoShop involved)

We managed to circumnavigate the castle and photograph it from each side in the changing weather.

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talking sense

8th March 2017, Newton Point, 8am

From our vantage point here the view was nice but it was all my senses that came to life.

The colour of the blue, blue sky
The feel of the cool wind
The sound of the skylarks high above and all around us
The seasonal smell of the gorse warm in the full sun.
The taste...well, there was nothing to taste so we went home for breakfast.

Stop and take the time to live the experience you are having.

I like this quote from one of my favourite landscape photographers Colin Prior

"…and it’s not just the visual information you're after - you need to absorb everything.  If you want to be a great photographer you need to switch on all of your senses it’s not just vision. We’ve got to smell things and we hear things, and that informs the photograph."

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inspiration from friendly faces

7th April 2017, Beadnell Bay, 7am

I always really enjoy showing my photographs and playing my music at HPB Lucker Hall (which I do every week). Last night it was to an audience who seemed to really 'get' what I try to do with my photography. Their interest and reaction inspired me this morning to see what was to be seen on the beach. Maybe some of these will make it into a slideshow in the future...

The beach pebbles were sitting on their wind-blown pebbles.

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who's beach is it?

4th April 2017, Embleton Bay, 7am

The beach was all ours.  The sun was slowly coming up through a band of clouds changing colour all the time.  Soon it would come clear of the cloud and the colours fade to blue to let the day begin.  Then the beach is for others.

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morning running

1st April 2017, Beadnell Bay, 7am

We ran up to Beadnell and back to end on the beach at sunrise.

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toad's hangout

31st March 2017, Dunstanburgh, 8am

It's toad season.  This toad was hanging out in a divet on the golf course.

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