“You will have many failures and a few great successes. Perfect your craft first, then develop your style. From there, explore places you love and make pictures to tell your story. Move from images of something, to images about something and your audience

ABOVE CHANCE ENCOUNTER, ROSTHWAITE, BORROWDALE

“A December dawn and first light in the valley. In winter it’s lovers of solitude, roving shepherds and the rare photographer like me who ascend to the glory of the fells to be repaid in a pageant of winter colour. Here, a chance encounter with Herdwick sheep. They stiffen momentarily like ten-pins, waiting together beautifully as I take their photograph before moving on silently into the deep valley mists. I have a very strong emotional attachment to this picture – it was the start of another journey.”

RIGHT ANCIENT RIGHTS, WASDALE

“The ‘raking of the fells’ is a seasonal gathering of hill flocks, bringing the mountain wanderers home from their upland solitude to valley farms. It is quite a spectacle in Wasdale, the land of the Herdwick, a stunning mountain scene where the world appears as if a painter’s canvas. I remind myself that while painters work from things they’ve seen, I work with what I’m shown and I’m privileged again to witness a cherished part of Lakeland’s heritage.”