Category Archives: Summer

Caer Caradoc Sunset Shropshire Hills

My last evening on the Shropshire Hills and chose to hike up its most iconic hill, Caer Caradoc near Church Stretton.

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Clun Castle Shropshire Hills

From a hotel on the outskirts of Shrewsbury moved to a shepherds hut down in the south of the Shropshire Hills. That first evening visited nearby Clun and the ruins of Clun Castle.

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The Lawley Sunset Shropshire Hills

Second day on the Shropshire Hills in the West Midlands and headed to a ridge known as The Lawley for an evening golden hour and sunset.

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The Wrekin Sunset Shropshire Hills

First visit to the Shropshire Hills in the West Midlands. Wanted to do this trip for a few years now, finally got round to it. Needed a break and a change of scenery, the first hill climbed of the Shropshire Hills was The Wrekin for a sunset.

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Surrey Hills Summertime Photography

For a weekend away, chose to visit the Surrey Hills on the North Downs. Would be staying for the night in a hotel at the foot of Box Hill. What follows is a compilation of some landscape photography on the Surrey Hill in the middle of summertime July.

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June Landscape Photography 2021

Into June 2021, which to me is Summer proper. The days are long and get hot. Its a time to switch from sunrise to sunset photography if want to capture the landscape in the best light without getting up at 3AM. The first half of June was very hot, so much so finally invested in an air conditioner. The second half turned a lot cooler, overcast and wet. What follows is a compilation of some of the best landscape photography during the month of June 2021.

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Landscape Photography 2020 Review

Happy new year! What a year 2020 was! It began with me spending most of January and February hiking in the mountains of Tenerife. Then the Covid pandemic and lockdown followed by not being able to return to work. What follows is a compilation of some of the best landscape photos taken during 2020.

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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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Mount Caburn Sunrise Lewes Downs

Have set myself a challenge to revisit local locations and photograph them under better lighting conditions. For this trip it was sunrise landscape photography from the top of Mount Caburn on the Lewes Downs in East Sussex.

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Cuckmere Valley Dawn East Sussex

Managed to drag myself out of bed at 4am for a dawn shoot over the Cuckmere valley in east Sussex from the vantage point of High and Over on the South Downs.

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Stone Hill Ashdown Forest

August has been a hot and lazy month. Too hot to get out hiking and landscape photography. Towards the end of August it did cool down with autumn coming. So broke the spell and rose early for a sunrise shoot at Stone Hill Ashdown Forest on the High Weald in East Sussex.

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Harting Down West Sussex

For the second day camping out at Manorfarm, I was intending to explore Harting down on the south downs in West Sussex. I wanted to attempt a sunrise and sunset shoot there after first scouting it out.

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