Bouts of overwhelming homesickness used to be a daily occurrence when I was a child living in boarding school.  We’d moved to live in Dubai and back in the 1970’s ex-pat kids mostly stayed in England for their education. I think I used to torture my... Nature is certainly starting to wake up with blossoms, magnolias, rhododendrons and deciduous trees all starting to come into flower and leaf. Since we’re at the lofty heights of 280m we are about a month behind the rest of the valley which is a good thing... Being a photographer has fine tuned the way I see things. Especially how I see light. Light comes in so many shapes, sizes, intensity and colours there is a seemingly limitless way it bathes us in a warm glow. I was very struck by how the light twinkled on the... Bright sunlight is a precious commodity right now. First it’s plentiful and then in a puff of a Wellington gust of wind it’s gone and we’re back into blanket cloud. I like the way the sun shines in the bush giving out an enchanted glow. I feel... Hanging onto your ears when you’re a basset is like trying to hang onto your umbrella in a Wellington gale. Something you first battle with and then you give up and let the wind do its thing. Looking at Fortnum in this picture I can’t help but think of... 