I was invited by Amateur Photographer Magazine to take part in a Gardens Masterclass led by Clive Nichols last month. After a burning hot week I drove down to RHS Rosemoor Gardens in Devon to wake up to a grey dull day. The threatened rain never arrived, but the sky was not an attractive part of any of our shots. We concentrated instead on filling the shot with colour from the flowers, visiting various parts of the gardens for inspiration. At the end of the day we were asked to choose our 10 best photographs - out of those where we had been following the theme, so my bluebottle was not allowed! Then finally in this weeks magazine (14 Aug) Gemma has written about our day and I was pleased to see three of my shots in print.

Another sucessful Fishguard Folk Festival. I took lots of photos of musical people - see the Fishguard 2010 album. This time I even got a little musical myself and learned to make music, at at least a kind of warbling wailing note, from a saw and bow at Lucy and Jonny's saw workshop.

The Ruislip LIP's winter exhibition - Metroland featured 3 of my series "Underground Overground".

The exhibition was shown from 6th to 19th Feb 2010 at Stanmore Library and 29th March to 10th April 2010 at Gayton Library, Harrow.

The images from the exhibtion are now on-line on the Ruislip LIP website.

Today it came through the post -the final entries printed in Practical Photography. I must say, the winning shot is pants :-) take a look on the Photo answers website.

I just got a letter to say that I am one of six photographers in the final of Practical photography magazine's Photographer of the Year competition! I had tried to shoot a new photograph for stage 2, but it in the end one of my old favourites seemed a better choice.

"Using my new photographic spotlight and stand (aka super bright bike lights and sticky tape), I created a corridor of light in the otherwise dark garden.

With my most enthusiastic model (me), I experimented with lots of different movements. One of the fun things about making this kind of image is the unpredictability of the results – even an attempted repeat is never quite the same.

In the chosen shot I walked towards the light to make a trail then froze for the sharp section. The spotlight picked me out against the dark background, with some scattering of light showing leaves in my trail."

This picture is printed in the November issue of Practical Photography and all are discussed on the Practical Photography website.

I'm showing my "Cave Underwater" work at The Second Greenwich Annuale exhibition, showing at the Viewfinder Gallery, Greenwich, 20 to 30 August 2009. This exhibition showcases the work of LIP members, and is the second exhibition organised by the Greenwich branch.

Viewfinder Photography Gallery

Linear House

Peyton Place (off Royal Hill)

Greenwich

SE10 8RS

Monday to Friday: 9am to 5pm

Saturday and Sunday: 12 to 4pm

I was delighted to be invited to be an "offical festival photographer" at this year's Fishguard Folk Festival. The music and atmosphere were great as usual, and for a change so was the weather. I saw as many acts as I could and took a lot of photos - see the Fishguard album.

I also provided photographs from this event for the websites of some performers - Raise the Dust and Mike Chant's soon to be new website.

I exhibited three of my movement portraits in Ruislip LIP's first ever exhibition, which ran from 5-13 December at the Cow Byre Gallery, Manor Farm, Ruislip.

"Freedom I" was published in Practical Photography POTY 2007 in the 'Harmony and Discord' round.

This image was part of my entry for the Practical photography photographer of the year competition 2006 second round with the theme "On my doorstep". It was published in Practical Photography as a runner up.

This image received a merit award in the British Caving Association (BCA) photographic competition 2006. It has been published in the South Wales Caving Club Newletter, and will be in a future edition of the BCA publication Speleology.