Shooting at a Fly Tying Fair, I found this guy. He had spent over sixty hours on this fly already and it still wasn't finished. Needless to say it will never see the inside of a fishes mouth!

Rain Rain Rain....

Autumn Beech

Stormy day.

And again. Yet another old tree.

Working in White Coppice today. Distracted by this old dead tree.

Autumn Rush. Today as I walked the valley before setting off on my first shoot everything was in motion. A perfect autumn morning.

Silverdale footprints and bladderwrack

Southport beach

My morning view.  I usually start my day with an early dog walk alongside my local lake in Lancashire

Cormorants and Heron.

Today I shot video at a developing nature reserve. The footage will eventually be edited into a movie for one of my local clients.

A talent show held to celebrate the opening of a village hall, part funded by one of my client companies.

Shooting a community pond clearance today.  This guy went in a touch too deep.

This week has been fishing flies, and more fishing flies and then another batch of fishing flies, ending with a long day of step by steps of fly tying techniques for Fly Fishing and Fly Tying magazine...  who else

Driving home from the Scottish Nature Photographers Fair as dusk fell.

Layers of Agriculture over the valley near Perth.

Today I returned to the fishing pool, minus the fog. I preferred the fog.

The fishing pool in morning fog

2 more late night images from yesterday. Again, very long exposures.

Phosphorescent green algae shot late last night on a local lake. 70 second exposure.

Frog in the River Brock

Agave

White Willowherb

Dragonflies at dawn

Dragonflies at dawn

Cat in a Manger

Harvestman with parasites

Cottage window with potted Herbs

Red Hot Crocosmia on cool Black Elder

Alternative view of Tommy

Tree Fern in a Lancashire Garden

Trick cyclist

Damselflies at Brockholes Wetland Reserve

Stones and Roses Garden

windblown garden

This is the first part of a 25 minute movie that I filmed and put together for one of my clients. The music was composed by my daughter Tanya. There's 4 parts of approximately 5 minutes each.

part two

part three

part four

A Beach Full of Bassets

River Rothay

A really wild lawn

Female Mallard

Holehird

Alpaca in Buttercups

Young Bracken Unfurling

Isis Wings

The West coast of Scotland