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Adventure before everything! Mountains, climbing, sailing, skiing, snow, ice, high latitudes and altitudes

05/11/2025

Congratulations New York and America for that first success so desperately needed in this absurd period of human history. Thank you for hope 🙏🏼

Bright light highlights the beauty between shadows :) Glowing larch mixed into the spruce forest. Not a woodland type I usually appreciate but that light is outstanding! Duddon.

03/10/2025

Autumn light in the Norwegian Arctic. It always feels to me that there is something pretty special about high latitude sunlight. I’m not sure if there is something tangible to that feeling or whether my mind is just mystified by the landscape. Either way I invariably walk away with an image that somehow stores a memory of that feeling.

I have friends that look out of this view from the kitchen and front room window! Lucky buggers 😂

20/09/2025

Golden glitter and twisted stems of stunted Arctic birch woodland!

It’s difficult to explain quite how special this landscape feels and hard to photograph it in a way that does it justice. This boggy valley end with its short winding river fed by glacial recession has never been farmed or grazed by anything other than the few wild reindeer here. Because of its relative ‘unusability’, if that is a word, it hasn’t been bothered by humans. The moss beds glow red and though I was a bit late in the year I’m certain they’re inhabited by sundews and butterworts. Perhaps even the Arctic dwarf butterwort Pinguicula villosa. The birch and rowan here in the north facing combe were beginning to turn a little earlier than on other slopes and locations. Perhaps indicating a lower temperature below the glacier and certainly shorter days of light, both of which prompt the autumnal change :)

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12/09/2025

Just a short walk from the road while checking the route up for Store Blåmann I came across a large patch of bog asphodel. In summer their yellow flowers turn huge areas of wet landscape from a drab brown to a lively flaxen hue. In autumn when the flower fades that colour flares to orange. It never fails to prompt excitement when these fantastic bright colours in native plants and trees arrive for autumn. The same with a huge beech in bright colours, a golden aspen or birch, rowan in the north turn to a beautiful range of colour from green to red, the clumps of grass bjørn skjegg (bears beard) do the same. The leaves on these plants had only just begun to to turn so while the tips are orange the bottom right art of the plant it’s still green. It gives an impression of a rocket-like flare, an ignition spark for the fire of colour soon to arrive :)

Back in the north and back finding inspiration in nature to capture images that feel satisfying. Feels like a long time!

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14/07/2025

Ahhh I miss this peace, this light, this landscape, this country 🇳🇴 I will be back soon :)

Looking forward to finding eagles and otters on the coast and open unending mountain views from the fell tops :)

25/05/2025

Reminiscing on high Arctic landscapes after reading through old books of adventure and exploration this last week or so :) Most likely prompted by the current endeavour of as she sets off on her Arctic circumnavigation on Yeva! An ambitious and enviable undertaking that will hopefully see the first solo navigation of both the northwest and northeast passages! I’m thrilled to follow this from my comfortable little home! And excited to see what she sees as she travels :)

The raw, bleak splendour of these locations is burned into the soul of any adventurous mind who has had the privilege to sail there! Of course it’s fun from home to explore beyond the aesthetic and into the geology and history. Arctic and Antarctic exploration has a harrowing narrative through its ages and if you haven’t read anything of it you should! Like the histories of the great first ascents, they are addictive to the curious mind :)

08/03/2025

In recognition of the women that shape our lives 🙂

05/03/2025

Sublime light on a windless evening as the sun falls out of view. Shadows and slow ripples make a calm abstraction of those angular hillside unique to the north of Norway!

24/02/2025

Huge snowflakes load up the boulders on the beach as perfect swell pounds in! getting deep and making the most of it 🙂 For

19/02/2025

Soft and subtle colour and light, sunrise from the Fjell tops of southern Lofoten. A row of mainland mountains just visible at the skyline. Arctic light at its most beautiful :)

18/02/2025

The southernmost islands emerging from the cloud. Somehow this image is framed to perfection with the light dusting of snow on the closer peaks.

A couple of years ago I googled my name, as you do 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’d just heard one of my images had been used as a double page in Sail Magazine so I’d wondered where else my images may have turned up without me knowing. I found that this image had been shortlisted in the British photographer of the Year Awards in the landscape category. I guess the email notifications must have gone into a spam or junk email box! Two nice surprises :)

13/02/2025

Colours, gradients, shapes and angles that just feel somehow unique to Arctic Norway :) This was taken nearly a decade ago on my first trip to the Lofotens with an old mate Clint. The start of an Arctic obsession that still smoulders in every cell of my body. I don’t seem to be able to make a plan that isn’t somehow Arctic and although I do, I still feel a little that I’ve cheated myself for going elsewhere. I didn’t make it north last year, the first year since ‘15 that I haven’t! So I’ve been looking back through old images to relight that feeling of heading back up. If everything goes to plan and it invariably does (😂) I’ll be back with cameras and likely a wing 🪂 early this year to work with the newest venture of and

Soooo, for a short while I’m going to go back through and post a few of my older images for my own nostalgia and for the benefit of anyone who hasn’t seen them before :)

Excited to hang out with too 😁

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