Blog / Category: Field Trips

I've been so busy writing and shooting for Uncommon Ground recently that I haven't been able to update the glossary much. I'm really sorry about this because so many people have sent in words and...

For those who don't suffer from claustrophobia, there are several routes into Gaping Gill, one of the largest and most spectacular underground chambers in Britain. The Southern slopes of...

I was up in Cumbria last week, shooting some work for the 'Lakes and Dales' section of the book and gathering more words for the glossary. I shot this film around Baugh Fell whilst looking for...

  After four days in the mountains I set off for the Western Isles, in search of peat and sand and sea. The road from Fort William to the Kyle of Lochalsh cuts inland towards Spean Bridge...

This is a snippet from last week, when I spent a couple of days in Wales on a bit of a recce. I think waterfalls are going to play a major role in the Welsh section of the book and there's lots of...

With crampons strapped to my boots and an ice-axe in my hand I should have felt more like a mountaineer than an invalid, but on hands and knees, legs burning and shaky, hauling myself slowly up...

I've just got back from my two-week field trip to Scotland, which went really well. The films are in the lab at the moment and I'm waiting as nervously as an expectant father to see what...

There's no way I could fit everything I'm taking in shot so these are the edited highlights, the key pieces if you will. Cameras: 1. Hasselblad 503 CW with a 50mm and an 80mm - This is the...

At the end of this week I'll be driving up to Scotland for a fortnight of photography and research, so right now I'm packing and looking at maps and making sure all my gear is working. This trip...

Tolmens are stones that are both objectively holey and subjectively holy. When they were found by prehistoric peoples in what is now Devon and Cornwall, the neat circular holes in these river...