There is a specific kind of creative frustration that lives in the gap between what you can see and what your camera gives you back. You know the feeling. You pick up a scene, the light falling just so, something alive in the moment and you press the shutter. And what comes back is flat….
Meeting orca at the edges of the known world Orca live at the edges of human knowing. Intelligent, social and deeply place-aware, they move through arctic waters with a precision that feels both ancient and utterly alive. To encounter them is hard to summarise in words. For me, it arrived as a moment of recognition,…
When I saw this news pop up online, it stunned me. Reynisfjara, Iceland’s black sand beach I’ve returned to again and again over twelve years I’ve been travelling to Iceland. The black sand threshold where I’ve felt most alive, studying light from the air and stood humbled by colossal waves, has been transformed beyond recognition…
There are moments in life that arrive that take you by surprise, as they place you at a threshold. Of what has been and what is becoming. They invite you to pause. To take stock, to look again at this thing you get to call work and the squiggly path that has carried you here….
Northern bottlenose whales are among the least seen whales in the North Atlantic. Deep-diving, offshore and elusive by nature, they live far beyond the edges of most human experience. To encounter them at all is rare. To spend days alongside Northern bottlenose whales in Önundarfjörður, monitoring their behaviour unfold in a quiet fjord, feels like…
When your memory card is full and your ADHD brain shuts the camera down. One of the souls in my community reached out with this message. I asked them if they wouldn’t mind me sharing my response in a blog post. As I had quite a few ideas on ADHD-aware photography tips that wouldn’t fit…
There are days on the water that recalibrate what we think is possible. Days that stretch our sense of scale and remind us how alive the ocean, even in the face of the pressures it faces. This was one of those days. In Ísafjarðardjúp, in the remote Westfjords of Iceland, Whale Wise took to the…
Bempton Cliffs is a place where wonder and awe takes your breath away, where seabird stories unfold in motion, against the sculpted backdrop of chalk and sea. As a nature and wildlife photographer, this is where my pulse slows and my lens opens, because photography isn’t just what I do. It’s how I listen and…
Fujikina London was nothing short of amazing. To share so honestly and be met with such open arms and open hearts is something I’ll hold close for a long time. The conversations, the incredible questions, the tender moments, and most of all, seeing again that the power of storytelling can be so moving and inspirational….
The heaviness of British To be British is to carry a word that feels unbearably heavy right now. Flags painted on roads, fascism using the the shield of patriotism or nationalism enraging people to spill onto the streets, the endless hangover of Brexit, rights eroded, seas filled with sewage, marine protected areas continuing to face…