Category Archives: National Parks

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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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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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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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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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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High Weald Landscape Photography

Great High Weald Landscape Locations

The High Weald in the south east of England is one of the countries designated AONB. The High Weald spans the three counties of Kent, East Sussex and west Sussex.  The following post is a small compilation of some of the best places to visit on the High Weald for landscape photography and hiking.

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