Posted on 18/7/26
The Great British Fordite: A Colour Story Hiding on Our Own Doorstep
Why the most American of materials might just have a very British chapter waiting to be written — one turned right here in the West Midlands.
Storm Chasing Adventure
Posted on 4/6/26
Right, I’m sitting at Heathrow and the adventure is about to begin — this time it’s something very different to anything I’ve done before!
I’m heading to Denver, Colorado, for a week-long storm chasing photography tour across the Great Plains with Storm Chasing Photography Tours (https://www.stormchasingphotographytours.com).
This is prime season on the Plains — late spring is when the atmospheric conditions collide to produce some of the most jaw-dropping severe weather on the planet. We’re talking massive supercell thunderstorms with incredible sculptural structure, vast skies boiling with bubble-like mammatus clouds, enormous lightning strikes, and — if we’re really lucky — tornadoes. The kind of skies that make you feel very small indeed.
The tour covers a huge swathe of the northern, central and southern Plains, chasing whatever the weather throws at us, following storm systems on radar and learning to read the structure of these incredible atmospheric events to create the most compelling images possible. Long days, long drives, lots of fast food — and I absolutely cannot wait! 😄
One thing I’m particularly excited about is having a proper go at timelapse for the first time. Watching a supercell build and rotate over the Plains in real time is one thing — capturing that whole dynamic drama compressed into a few seconds of footage is something else entirely. Fingers crossed the Hasselblad and I can pull it off!
Watch this space — it’s going to be a wild week!
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From 4,500 Stills to 90 Seconds of Sky: My First Timelapse
From 4,500 Stills to 90 Seconds of Sky: My First Timelapse
I've been photographing storms for a while now, but this one's a bit different. This isn't about a single frame anymore — it's about time. After two weeks and roughly 3,500 miles chasing supercells across the Great Plains, I decided it was time to stop just freezing moments and actually try stitching them together. So here it is: my first ever timelapse, built from that trip, and honestly, I'm chuffed with how it turned out.
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/4UzHTTeM53I
It's only 90 seconds long. Ninety seconds doesn't sound like much until you realise what went into it.
Posted on 16/6/26
Chasing the Sky: 3,500 Miles Across America’s Great Plains
There are trips that ease you in gently, and there are trips that grab you by the collar and don’t let go. This was firmly the latter.
Over one extraordinary week I covered something in the region of 3,500 miles, looping out of Denver and across the great open belly of America — Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas — before finally turning for home and rolling back across the Colorado plains. It was, without question, one of the most thrilling photographic adventures I’ve ever thrown myself into.
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