This category concerns hiking, destinations, kit, camping, mountains etc.
Photographing mountain landscapes requires a lot more than a camera, a couple of lenses and a modicum of fitness, this expedition involved a 21km hike into the mountains of the Sierra Guejar, to say I’m exhausted is understating it, this was a seriously challenging trip with a cumulative climb (and descent) of 1000m – in…
The Andalucia Acequias Relief! Here in Andalucia we’ve had the wettest spring in memory and the water restrictions have been lifted. What this means in practice is we can refill our swimming pool, use more than 200L each per day and relax in the knowledge that our tap water will not be restricted this year….
This week, I climbed half a mile to the Piedra de los Pajeros above Puente Palo to photograph the snow-covered peaks above Lanjaron. The climb necessitated snowshoes, and progress was slow and hot—the temperature in my house was half what it was outside on the sun-drenched high slopes, and I found myself shedding layers rapidly….
My epic week of landscape photography in Spain at the Picos de Europa began here at dawn in the 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) deep Cares Gorge (Garganta del Cares). Check out Part One, Photographing the Picos de Europa for the no less spectacular Refugio Collado Hermosa and Refugio Cabana Veronica where we shared epic sunsets and incredible cloud inversions…
As I mentioned in the last post, Photographing Cabo de Gata, I’ve just returned from a week long walking expedition, photographing the Picos de Europa. Suffice to say it was an absolute blast, the weather cooperating to provide all of the conditions I’d hoped for and none of the ones I’d feared! The Picos de Europa (“Peaks…
