High Cumbrian Valleys

I’ve been in the Lake District, updating Fodor’s England guidebook. Highlights were great meals in the Queen’s Head in Troutbeck and The Jumble Room in Grasmere. There was also time for a few fantastic walks, especially a birthday climb up a snowy Thornthwaite Crag, a trek up Langstrath Beck towards Scafell and a final day circuit [...]

London snow

We only missed a complete dumping by about 25 miles, but with the last couple of days looking as Christmas-beautiful as this it's hard to complain too much about our meagre inch or two of snow.

Fine Fes Food

Cafe Clock, in Fes, Morocco, is the city's (and perhaps the country's) best cafe: a social nexus as well as a great place for a coffee or a camel burger. Last week I spent three days [...]

The Great and the Good

A collection of pictures of various important, influential and famous people I've taken in the last couple of years. From Boris Johnson and Jack Straw to Floella Benjamin and Garth Crooks, some highlights of my rogues [...]

Economical Environmentalist

This new book uses my photos of the author, Prashant Vaze, riding a Brompton through St James's Park on its cover. A former government economist, Prashant looks at practical ways to reduce carbon and talks through [...]

Croatia

Croatia for ten days in September and October: a genuine holiday, with nothing to write about, no hotels to visit, no museums to research. Although of course I still took lots of photos. We flew to [...]

Our Space

A summer camp for 14 and 15 year-olds run by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, this year's Our Space took place on the shores of Lake Windermere and I went along to take photos. The [...]