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A new day begins with a beautiful sunrise over Dunstanburgh Castle on the incredible Northumberland Coast.

I am running a workshop up here on the Northumberland Coast with the awesome Doug Chinnery on the 6&7th January and we have a couple of places left now. If any of you are interested please see my profile for a link to my website for more details.

Its an incredible sight to witness when the skies are clear and the levels of geomagnetic activity are strong enough to provide coronal bursts like this. We drove for 7 hours from Tromsø to get here for clear skies and aurora. We we ended up with was a dream of an evening, we had aurora from sunset all the way through until sunrise the next morning and witnessed five huge bursts of activity which all provided coronas like this one.

Canon 5dmkii 24 f1.4Lii 1.6 seconds @ f1.4 iso 1600.

After photographing this beautiful tree from halfway up Steptoe Butte, Justin Reznick & I decided to go for a drive and work out how to get to this hill for a unique viewpoint. Luckily we left half the group on top of the hill and they could see us on the road and tell us where to park and begin to hike in.
It was still a big trek, the light was changing fast and we wanted this low angled light to illuminate small sections of the landscape, especially this awesome little tree. I was exhausted when we got here, we'd been up since two hours before sunrise and this image was made just an hour before sunset. We made the images we were after and ran back to the car to get right back up to the top of the Butte for sunset which was also beautiful.
I absolutely love this location and cant wait to get back here!

I have got tons of images lying around at the moment so will try and post as many as possible over the next few days.

1DSmkiii 100-400 @ 370mm 3 images stitched 1/10 second @ f11.

This was an image made whilst in the States to visit the Palouse and Olympic National Park earlier in the year. The coastline here is absolutely incredible, vast sandy beaches with these phenomenal sea stacks carved by the Pacific Ocean.

I'm leading a tour for Light and Land in June with Justin Reznick travelling from San Francisco all the way back up here to the Olympic coastline along Highway 1 next year. I cant wait to explore more of this epic coastline!

1dsmkiii zeiss 21 4 seconds f11 iso 50

My first visit to the Dorset Coast with some decent winter light so far this winter. Looking forward to many more over the next few months. Its been a real struggle to get recently and nearly all the images I have had a chance to make have been out in Norway. I have 6 weeks now to concentrate on the local area again so hoping for more good light!

I am leading two one day workshops with Doug Chinnery on the 10 & 11th December and we have a couple of places left if any of you would like to join us. My contact info is on my profile page.