Gibside. 22/03/25

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Penshaw - March 2025

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Kielder 15/03/25

Lego

Derwent Walk Country Park

Lambton Park. 02/03/25

Thomason Foss Waterfall

Lake District 15/02/25

Pictures taken on a circular walk from Elterwater to Hodge close quarry via Little Langdale, Slater’s Bridge, Cathedral cave and Colwith Force.

Whitburn Windmill

Souter Lighthouse

Potter's World

Blue ring-necked parakeet

Rose-ringed parakeet

Budgerigars

Rose-ringed parakeet

Golden yellow Pheasant

Pied Red-crowned parakeet

Blue ring-necked parakeet

Barn Owl

African spurred Tortoise

Cockatiel

Green iguana

Boa constrictor imperator

Cockatiels mating

Fischer's lovebird

Cayuga duck

Gibside - National Trust. 18/01/25

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River Wear walk. 09/01/25

Penshaw Monument - 08/01/25

Roseberry Topping and Captain Cook's monument. 04/01/25

Richmond - December 2024

Raby Castle. 16/11/24

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Northern lights 10/10/24

Wallington. 05/10/24

Yorkshire Moors - Misc September 2024

Barrow

Bassenthwaite Lake

Dodd

Castlehead

Skiddaw 03/09/24

Derwent Water 31/08/24

Sunset. 27/08/24

Dalehead, Maiden Moor & Catbells

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Centenary Stone

Latrigg

Bleaberry Fell

Raven Crag

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Lodore Falls

Surprise View

Ashness Bridge

Walla Crag

Bassenthwaite Lake & Skiddaw

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Lambton Park - July 2024

Chester Zoo - June 2024

Sulawesi crested Macaque

Silvery Gibbon

Rothschild's Giraffe

Komodo Dragon

Asian Elephant

Mandrill

Penguin

Flamingos

Western chimpanzee

Ring-tailed lemur

Bornean Orangutan

Gaboon Viper

Jaguar

Andean Bear

Adder

Cotton-top Tamarin

Millican Daltons Cave's & Castle Crag

Catbells

Derwent water - June 2024

Buttermere

Watch Hill

Slate Fell - June 2024

Walking near the River Glenderamackin

Raby Castle

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Summerhill Force & Gibson's Cave

Low Force

Wynch Bridge

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River Tees between Low & High Force

High Force Waterfall

The Watch Hill Hare

Trow Point

Eurasian Sparrowhawk. 08/04/24

Slatefell Sunset

Sunset over Penshaw

Simonside Hills

Silvas Capitalis

A large wooden head sculpture on the shores of Kielder Water

Derwent Water

A selection o photos from an afternoons walk around Derwent water

Looking across Strandshag Bay towards Catbells

Hundred Year Stone

Looking down the Borrowdale Valley towards Grange

River Derwent Foot Bridge

Looking down the River Derwent towards Skiddaw

Rock sculpture near High brandlehow Jetty

Entrust - Brandelhow Park

Lambton Park

A selection of images taken on a walk around Lambton Park. With views of the Castle, River Wear and Lamb bridge.

Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal

An early spring walk around Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Park

National Trust - Cragside

Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm.

The Iron Bridge over Debdon Burn

Tumbleton Lake

The main house

The clock tower from the Formal garden

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Inside one of the greenhouses at the Formal garden

Blackburn lake boathouse and drained lake

Inside the boathouse

Blackburn lake

Nelly’s Moss Lakes

Water Flume

Rydal Cave

Rydal Cave is a large cavern on the north side of Loughrigg Fell, above Rydal Water. This cave is man-made as a result of slate quarrying.

Christmas at Gibside

Kielder Reservoir 12/11/22

Kielder Water Birds of Prey Centre

White tailed sea Eagle

Gyr x Saker Falcon

Peregrine falcon

Harris Hawk

Red Kite

Barn Owl

Eurasian eagle-owl

Crested Caracara

Gyr x Saker Falcon

National Trust - Wallington

Hadrian's Wall. Cawfields Quarry to Housesteads

Walking the section East from Cawfields Quarry to Housesteads

Milecastle 42 and Cawfield Quarry

Looking down on Milecastle 42

Near Turret 41a at Shield on the wall

Heading from Shield on the wall towards Steel Rigg

Peel Crag with Crag Lough in the background

Milecastle 39

Sycamore Gap

Looking back west towards Crag Lough

Heading east towards Milecastle 37

Looking west along the wall near Housesteads

Aira Force Waterfall

Ashness bridge & Surprise view

Ashness bridge

Surprise view looking towards Skiddaw and Derwent water

Northumberland zoo

Prairie Dog

Meerkats

Artic Fox

Asian short clawed otter

Peacock

Raccoon

Snowy Owl

Ring Tailed Lemur

Arctic fox

Arctic fox at the Highland Wildlife park

Pattack Falls

Falls of Pattack is a waterfall in the Scottish Highlands' Cairngorm National Park.

Steall Waterfall

Steall Waterfall, also known as An Steall Bàn or Steall Falls, is situated in Glen Nevis near Fort William, Highland, Scotland. It is Scotland's second-highest waterfall, and also the second highest in the United Kingdom

Druids Temple

The Druids Temple on the Swinton estate near Masham in Yorkshire

Leighton Reservoir

Scotland summer 2021

A selection of images taken in the summer of 2021

River Nevis

Night sky

Mountain Rescue Helicopter on Ben Nevis

Glenfinnan Monument and Loch Shiel

Stag

Old Bridge Of Oich

Locks on the Caledonian Canal, Fort Augustus

Nevis Range

Commando Memorial

Old boat of Caol

Chinnock

The Seven Sisters 15/03/21

The Seven Sisters is a scheduled ancient monument near the town of Houghton-Le-Spring on the outskirts of Sunderland. An excavation of the area in 1877 by Canon William Greenwell revealed that the “barrow” the trees sit upon was a Neolithic burial site.

Lake District July-August 2020

Skiddaw, Carl side, Dodd and Bassenthwaite lake

Skiddaw from near Higham Hall

Sun setting over the Solway Firth

Grisedale Pike & Grassmoor

Astrophotography July 2020

Lake District Wildlife Park

Located near Bassenthwaite lake between Keswick & Cockermouth.

https://www.lakedistrictwildlifepark.co.uk/

Meerkat close up

African spurred tortoise

African Grey Hornbill

Squirrel Monkey

Patagonian Mara

Lynx

Greater Flamingo

Scottish Wildcat

Guanaco

Grant’s Zebra

Ringed Tail Lemur

Red Panda

Asian short-clawed otters

Eastern box Tortoise

American Bald Eagle

Harris Hawk

Tawny Eagle

Neowise over Sunderland UK 11/07/20

Comet "Neowise" over Sunderland. Not the greatest picture I'll admit! but not something you normally get to see or photograph

Highland Cattle. Penshaw. 23/01/20

Washington Wetland Centre. 21/10/19

A rather wet visit to Washington Wetland Centre. Despite the weather there was still plenty to see!

Asian short clawed Otter

Great Spotted woodpecker

Goldfinch

Bullfinch, Jay, Bullfinch and a Great tit

Goldfinches

Grey Squirrel

Darter Dragonfly

Darter Dragonfly’s photographed near Causey Arch, Co.Durham

Hareshaw Linn Waterfall

Hareshaw Linn is a waterfall near the village of Bellingham in Northumbria.

On the path to the waterfall an old tree-stump has been filled with old coins.

A close up shot of the coins in the wood.

First Glimpse of the waterfall.

Painted lady butterflies

Mexico 2019

Pictures include: Chichen Itza, Wildlife and a Mayan ritual.

Chichen Itza, El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcan)

Templo de los Guerreros (Temple of the Warriors)

El Caracol observatory temple.

Baby Spider Monkey.

Male Spider Money feeding.

Father and baby.

Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)

Feeding the Deer.

Feeding Deer close up.

Fawn.

Coati babies playing.

Male Peacock.

Mayan Fire Dance of life.

Sparrowhawk

Sparrowhawk resting on the fence.

Shooting off after it’s prey.

Views from Slatefell, Cumbria

Looking out across the Solway firth towards Scotland

View towards Skiddaw and Bassenthwaite.

Sheep on Slatefell.

Sheep silhouette at sunset.

Another view out of the Solway Firth

Lamb & Sheep with the Buttermere valley in the background.

Looking towards Grassmoor.

Slatefell trees.

Grassmoor.

The Sunset.

Borrowdale, Cumbria

Looking over Derwent water towards Keswick and Skiddaw.

Skiddaw glimpsed from the path behind Castle crag.

Castle Crag.

The River Derwent near Grange.

Dunstanburgh Castle

Dunstanburgh Castle and an old WW2 bunker.

Lilburn Tower

Lilburn Tower and Gull crag.

Winter sunset through the grass.

Bamburgh, Northumberland

Bamburgh Castle from the beach.

The castle seen through the sand dunes.

Looking towards the Farne Islands.

A sleeping Shrew.

Roseberry Topping

Roseberry Topping with a small ruin at the base.

The summit looking towards Guisborough and the sea.

Kielder Observatory Dark Skies 21/05/17

Pictures taken a couple of years ago at a dark skies night at Kielder Observatory in Northumbria.

Looking up at the night sky from the base of the telescope.

Looking out over Kielder, the largest man made body of water in the UK. The glow in the distance was coming from Newcastle

Riverside Falconry

I was bought an exotic animal photography course at Riverside Falconry for my birthday a few years back. I can’t remember all the names of the animals I photographed. So, if you do know the names of then please let me know!