Category Archives: Season

Seaford Head to Hope Gap Seascapes

The weather forecast was fog and thick cloud but decided to drag myself out of bed to get outside anyway. The plan was to start at Seaford Head in east Sussex then walk over the cliffs down to Cuckmere Haven and capture some seascapes.

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Peacehaven Cliffs Seascapes

An early morning rise to visit the Peacehaven Cliffs in East Sussex. The weather forecast was overcast, windy, rain but with some occasional breaks of sunlight. This can make for some dramatic seascape photography.

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Round Bewl Water Scout

Had been looking forward to returning to Bewl Water with a mountain bike and doing a complete circuit. From a previous scout of Bewl a few weeks before knew it was good for a ride and where there was some free parking if you got there early morning.

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Mary Stanford Boathouse Sunrise

As part of my series of returning to iconic landscape and seascape locations and capturing better and more dramatic compositions, a return visit to Rye on the east Sussex coast was next. The plan was for the Mary Stanford lighthouse to be the main focal point during a sunrise.

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Hastings Red Dawn

Was planning a dawn seascape photography shoot at Rye, but too pushed for time. With fog forecast thought would take an early morning walk around Alexandra Park in Hastings. On the drive there, the sky was amazing! A red dawn, change of plan, had to head to the beach along Hastings seafront and attempt to capture those brilliant vibrant colours.

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October End High Weald Scouts

The tail end of October included more autumn scouts over the high weald in east Sussex and into Kent. What follows are photo walk scouts as I attempt to cover more of the high weald searching for that elusive autumn landscape composition.

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Birling Gap Sunset Low Tide

It was going to be a nice October evening as far as the weather was concerned. Was heading to Eastbourne on business and threw the camera gear in the back of the car. That evening headed down to the coast at Birling gap for a low tide sunset.

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High Weald Autumn Walks

With early Autumn in fall swing, it was time to head back inland over the woodlands of the High Weald to try and catch some of those vibrant autumn colours. What follows is a compilation of some early October autumn photo walks over the High Weald in East Sussex.

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Hastings Seafront Sunrise

From studying various weather and tide apps, the conditions looked right for a morning sunrise shoot on Hastings seafront. With the tide revealing rocks in the foreground and the sun rising behind Hastings pier, should make a dramatic seascape composition.

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September Landscape Photography

September was a good month for landscape photography getting outside for some sunrise, sunset shoots and scouting predominantly on and around the south downs in east Sussex.

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Kingston Ridge South Downs Sunset

The weather forecast looked good for the afternoon and maybe a sunset shoot. The chosen location was to re visit Kingston ridge near Lewes on the South Downs in East Sussex.

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Firle to Lullington South Downs

Scouting the Firle Estate

This morning decided on a scouting trip around the Firle estate at the foot of the South Downs in East Sussex. Parking up at Berwick covered a lot of ground using a mountain bike reaching as far as Firle Bostal in the west and Lullington Church in the east via Alfriston.

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