The Old School Welcomes Giles Davies
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The Old School is delighted to showcase the work of Giles Davies, a new and welcome discovery for our little gallery in Swaledale....
Swaledale Winter 3 – A Grand Morning Out on Kisdon Hill …
… via Muker village and meadows. There are days when you seem to have the world to yourself … #Mountains #Photography #Travel
Everest Base Camp – From Blog to Book
It’s been nearly two months since I last troubled this blog. Life has been fairly hectic of late (which I’ll save for a future post), but...
Everest Base Camp Trek, with the Sigma DP3 Merrill
In a post specifically for Sigma enthusiasts I’ve collated the shots of the EBC trek taken with the DP3 into one post, so you don’t need...
Everest Base Camp, A Photo Diary – Descent
The final post of the diary covers our descent from Kalapatthar back down to Lukla, and from there to Kathmandu. Wednesday 16th November,...
Everest Base Camp, A Photo Diary – Everest
Part 4 of the diary focusses on the final upward trek to Base Camp and to our ultimate high point of Kalapatther, at 5,545m. Tuesday 15th...
Everest Base Camp, A Photo Diary – Higher Ground
Part 3 of the Photo Diary covers days 9-11 as we leave the trees behind and climb above 4,000m, visit Ama Dablam Base Camp, reach the...
Everest Base Camp, A Photo Diary – The Journey Continues
Part 2 of the photo diary of the Everest Base Camp, covering days 4-8 of the trek as we spend our time acclimatising below 4,000m....
Everest Base Camp, A Photo Diary – First Days
It’s a nearly two weeks since I landed in a cold, rainy Manchester, after three weeks trekking in Nepal, and it’s taken that time to get...
Textures & Colours of Nepal
From the serenity of high mountain trails, to the shock and vibrancy of Katmandu, an assortment of textures and colours that instantly...
Himalayan Sunrise – Sigma DP3 Merrill
Trekking in the cold first light of day, deep in the valley’s shadow before the sun has chance to rise above the ring of mountain peaks....
Everest Base Camp – Take Off
7:25pm GMT, Thursday 3rd November, 2016 7:20pm GMT, Thursday 3rd November, 2016 + 15 hours If you stumble on this blog in the 15 hours...
Mount Everest Base Camp Trek – Prologue
In just over a week, I board a plane from Manchester to Nepal to realise the dream of seeing Everest. I can’t recall when it started,...
Final View – Lofoten Post 10
Our final view of Lofoten from the window of the plane that took us from Lekness to Bodo, and from there, via Oslo and Stokholm, home....
The Classics – Lofoten Post 7
Some Lofoten classics from Moskenesøy island. You could point your camera in every direction, and there’s busloads of photographers who...
Lochen na h-achlaise
Lochan-na-h-achlaise, Scotland Rifling through past images to print for our last Leeds Artsmix market before Christmas I came across two...
Cader Idris
It’s 11:15pm on Saturday night. A lost fell walker stumbles into the pub 4 hours after sunset and 6 hours after they flipped a coin and...
On The Edge with the Sigma Merrill
Striding Edge, perhaps not the worlds most perilous knife edge ridge, but I really don’t like the exposure of ridges, and with an attempt...
Sierra de Grazalema – Sigma DP1 Merrill
Goat herds aren’t a natural sight where I live in Yorkshire. Here they abound. Sierra de Grazalema | Sigma DP1 Merrill |...
Sierra de Grazalema Pass – Sigma DP1 Merrill
Feel the flow of the road as you head over the pass, but watch out for oncoming lorries! Sierra de Grazalema | Sigma DP1 Merrill |...
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