George Fox’s Spring

A postcard from a summer’s afternoon on Pendle Hill, Lancashire. Quaker George Fox climbed Pendle Hill in 1652 and recorded visiting this natural spring hidden below the summit. Be still and silent from thy own…

Lili Holland-Fricke, Lullaby

Lilli Holland-Fricke is a cellist based in Manchester. This live recording of Lili performing her own ‘Lullaby’ was recorded live in an old chapel.

Moorland Cottongrass

From late May and into the summer, cottongrass covers many areas of the moorlands and its white cotton buds (particularly of the one-headed hare’s-tail variety) create a real atmosphere of serenity after the harsh winter…

The Grey Cairns of Camster

Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage we did not take. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets. Crawling along a dark, narrow passage on your knees is not a typical ending to a day spent climbing….

One Grain of Sand – Film

One Grain of Sand was filmed over a single Autumn & Winter and is a short portrait of lone climbing and walking in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire moorlands. This area of Peak District…

Pembrokeshire Granite

A short visit to a beach close to Newport in Pembrokeshire offered the opportunity to photograph some beautiful granite rocks, that often seem to flow like a river. Rocks like this come alive when the…

The Bullstones, Cheshire

These well positioned stones on the edge of Macclesfield offer superb views of the hills of Shuttlingsloe and Shining Tor, as well as the Staffordshire Roaches. Apparently a bronze age burial site, a central monolith…