My blog has received scant attention since the UK was locked down. I continued to take photographs but only of places to which I could easily walk. That’s no bad thing. It made me consider more closely what was around me, and to pay attention to small details. How the light changed, the shapes in the structure of a barn, how rust and lichen made patterns on discarded farming equipment, and the dramatic impact of shadows as the sun slipped towards the horizon. I’ve shared some of the images I captured in my gallery entitled Images from My Doorstep.

As travel restrictions eased I’ve made tentative journeys further from home. I’ve kept away from places where I thought I might encounter other people and driven no further than 30 minutes from home. I hadn’t realised how much I’d missed some of the beauty that Wiltshire has to offer that was not already evident near to home.

If you’ve read my little biography on my About page you will have seen that I am a contributor to the website Hidden Wiltshire. I have been writing illustrated blogs for them for about 18 months. It means that I can combine my passion for walking with that of photography. The audience is wide and varied so my photographs are more illustrative of what the reader might find on the walk and intended to serve as a guide to route finding. They need to be recognisable as the landscape in front of the walker.

Since travel restrictions eased I’ve completed two photographic blogs for Hidden Wiltshire and have more planned. So I’ve decided to start posting links to those blogs here, whilst I intend to restrict the galleries on this website to more, shall we say, “creative” work.

So watch out for links to my Hidden Wiltshire blogs here. Meanwhile, thanks to Glyn Coy of Hidden Wiltshire for the above image.