A selfie with a difference… testing a pole-based panorama shot horizontally. Without much support it was pretty nerve-wracking and had more than a little flex and wobble. Despite less-than-perfect quality it still makes for a cool-looking self-por...

A interactive version of a panoramic portrait I was commisioned to shoot, for a permanent installation of four large format prints in the Bear Café in Todmorden. It was a great project; combining my passion for local food and photography, and craf...

Mr Wilson's Second Liners performing at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival's Street Sundae event.Firm favourites at festivals everywhere, this rabble-raising New Orleans-style band played a rousing selection of 1990s dance classics through the streets of...

Perfect driving (or riding) conditions on the top of the Pennines…  magic light over the moors on a gorgeous warm evening. The heather caught the sun, the clouds added just enough contrast for drama, and bumblebees hummed around, enjoying the late...

(Like this view? Check out the rest of the set from the evening!)After the overwhelming enthusiasm and participation which greeted last year's Valley of Lights events came an amazing new nocturnal experience: the Lamplighter Festival.On November 2...

High resolution test panorama on a track on the hills above Todmorden and Walsden in the South Pennines. When I shot this, close to home, the early morning mist was clearing – burning off as the sun crept slowly skywards – and the frost was illumi...

Tumultuous applause for celebrated street band Mr Wilson's Second Liners as they finish leading the Street Sundae procession to their final destination at Calder Holmes Park in Hebden Bridge. Their last set, ending with a medley of classic 90's da...

This is Radiance, a gorgeous lighting and craft boutique in the small market town of Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. Radiance is owned by designer/maker Hannah Nunn: as well as creating her own acclaimed range of lighting, Hannah has a keen eye f...

Inside the working belfry (bell chamber), halfway up the steeple of the community-run Todmorden Unitarian Church. One of those wonderfully English traditions, change ringing involves playing a sequence of different tuned bells, such as these here,...

(View the unlit beacon and a glorious sunset from 40 minutes earlier by clicking here)As part of the Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II asceding to the throne, a series of celebratory beacons were lit across the United Kin...

(View the unlit beacon and a glorious sunset from 40 minutes earlier by clicking here)As part of the Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II asceding to the throne, a series of celebratory beacons were lit across the United Kin...

Once a year, the Rotary Club of Halifax organises a public open day to the normally-closed estate of Castle Carr. Head towards Warley Moor, up to the head of Luddenden Dean from the Cat I'th Well Inn near Wainstalls, and eventually you'll come to ...

Bluebells in the woods of Hardcastle Crags, near Hebden Bridge, back in May 2007. It was a lovely spring, and my first living in the locality. This is one of my early spherical panoramas, and my first experiment with 3 exposure bracketed RAW shots...