Southwold on the Suffolk coast is an idyllic location for any landscape photographer. It’s full of charm with it’s colourful beach huts, sand dunes and the well known pier to which i decided to shoot on this particular day. I have photographed the pier many times to add to my collection of seascape photography but i have never photographed the pier with my sigma 10-20mm lens and a with a long exposure. These seascape shots were taken at dusk and show a variety in shooting the same location in a short amount of time.

In early February the UK had a few days of snow fall which was ideal for heading out to some of my favourite local locations for some landscape photography. In one morning i tried to cover a few spots that i knew would be fantastic for some beach hut photography and also some more fine art landscape photography.

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Two recent photos that explore shooting with a high ISO to achieve more grain in my photography. These two abstract landscape shots were taken in and around Rendlesham Forest and use intentional camera movement with an ISO setting of 12800 shot on a Canon 7D. I find the grain when processed a little more along with the intentional camera movement really adds mystery and a far more abstract feel to the photos.

Hopefully more soon.

Here is a recent collection of seascape photography shot in Felixstowe during October 2011. As Felixstowe is situated on the east coast the facing sky is mostly always perfect at sunset and dusk for subtle pinks and purples. The photos are a mix of techniques i practice a lot with seascape photography, all are long exposures,  some focus more on intimate details captured with shallow selective focus and vertorama seascapes are also becoming a favourite technique mine of to capture the scene.

Some of these photos are available as royalty free images on Getty Images.

I have a collection of my photography available for royalty free licensing through Getty Images. The collection features landscape photography, seascape photography as well as other shots taken over the last few years.

The collection can be found here.

Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast has an excellent selection of beach huts for coastal landscape photography.  I have photographed the beach huts intensely over the passed years from abstract fragment photographs to wider views such as these. The fiery sunset sky on this particular day really helped to make this shot one of my favourite Felixstowe Beach Hut shots to date.

This shot was taken for my 50mm photography project, Lyrical This . Lyrical That.

On a recent trip to the Peak District, Derbyshire i was presented with dull weather for most of the week, which did not help for any new landscape photography. This was a shame as the autumn colours were out in full effect but no bright sunlight to make the colours pop. I was only able to gather shots for my 50mm photography project, Lyrical This . Lyrical That.

Here are a selection taken for the project.

I have recently been experimenting with shooting slightly off focus long exposure seascapes. It is another route to further a more nostalgic feel and possibly abstract look to my seascape photography. I have no idea how i was able to capture the waves in lines but this shot so far is by far my favourite i have shot.

This shot was taken with a Sigma 20mm F/1.8 EX DG with a Hoya ND400 filter.

I am drawn to the fields of Suffolk for my landscape photography as the local landscape provides a subtle and sometimes minimal offering. Sadly i am not always in the right place at the right time and this image is a composite vertorama. The image consists of two separate photographs taken nearby in location but around a year a part. This creation was also an experiment in mixing focal lengths when creating a vertorama, the foreground was shot with a Sigma 10-20mm and the sky was shot with a Canon MKI 50mm f/1.8.

Felixstowe Pier is a subject matter that appears in my seascape photography quite often. It’s now a derelict pier but still holds a lot of character and personal memories for me.