Galleries
Photographs I've taken over the years.
You should also check out my projects page for illustrations etc.
Featured galleries
The Mounts, Summer 2019
In July the birds go quiet and birdwatchers become butterfly watchers. The Mounts are an old clay quarry, rubbish dump, school playing fields, and now a sort of unofficial park where people walk their dogs among the overgrown grass.
Wicken Fen, June 2019
A walk (and boat trip) around Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. One of the oldest nature reserves - 1899!...
Attenborough May 2019
Pics from Attenborough on a lovely early summers day. Lots of camera-shy hobbies flying around!
Padley Gorge (May 2019)
Walking seven miles of moors and woodland around the Longshaw estate.
Titchwell (April 2019)
Quite a grey, miserable day but some great birds! So many avocet pictures...
Hedgehog
The stair climbing one is my favourite!
Foxes
A selection of fox pics and videos from my back garden
Spurn NR, October 2016
Photos from the recent Spurn trip with the Nottingham RSPB local group.
All galleries
Personal pics >
Me!
Back before social media was a thing...
Friends
Random collection of pictures of friends, possibly for use in blackmail scams...
Foggy's House
I don't think Foggy wanted us going to his house. Ever.
Jo's Leaving Do
Saying goodbye to Jo
Fistful of Tacos
Trip to a Mexican restaurant in Portsmouth with the gang
Blues on the Farm, 2001
A night out with the gang from work. I was off the beer...
Bowling
A night out with some of the guys from work
Bosham Fireworks
Not quite sure of the exact date...
Chinese New Year 2002 (Horse)
The Confucius Chinese Restaurant in Chichester became someth...
Family
A few family snaps
My old home in Chichester
Pictures of my (old) flat in Chichester.
Chinese New Year 2003 (Ram)
Our by-now annual appointment at Confucius's Chinese New Yea...
Train Ride, 2003
Nope, no idea where this was.
Richard Jelbert
...making a computer all better, honest.
Chinese New Year 2004 (Monkey)
Our third year going to Gordon's New Year bash
Rachel's Hats
A friend of Matt Gray's, Rachel Bettany...
Fistful of Tacos 2
Back to the Mexican restaurant, taking Andy with us.
Bob's Stag Do
We all went go-karting and had to sign a form saying we were totally sober.
Bob and Gabi's wedding reception
Photos and a few videos from the reception.
Foggy's Leaving Do
There should really be more photographs of this momentous occasion...
Gabi's Leaving Do
Gabi's leaving do in the Nag's Head
Andy's Stag Do
Rough and ready, unedited set of pics from Andy's Loukes' stag do.
New home in Nottingham
(Commentary is from when this page was put up in a private section to show my friends...
Roger & Eva's Wedding
Roger and Eva were getting married in Roger's native Edinburgh...
Christmas 2017
Christmas 2017 works do at the Old Bell Derby
Holidays >
Egypt, May 2001: part 2
Temple of Isis, Philae ; Aswan High Dam...
Egypt, May 2001: part 3
Luxor (Thebes) Temple; Valley of the Kings...
Egypt, May 2001: part 4
Temple of Hathor, Dendara; coming home.
Egypt, May 2001: introduction
The original galleries created after my trip to Egypt were s...
Egypt, May 2001: part 1
Leaving Luxor; The Temple of Horus at Edfu...
Majorca, April 2002
Family holiday in Majorca.
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton, 30th August
First arriving at Hunstanton
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton, 31st August
A walk along the cliffs watching Fulmars
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton, 1st September
A walk along the beach to the Sealife Centre...
Norfolk 2003: Titchwell, 2nd September
A trip to one of our favourite nature reserves
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton Seal Trip, 3rd September
A boat trip out to see the seals.
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton, 4th September
Another lazy day in Hunstanton, looking at the cliffs...
Norfolk 2003: King's Lynn, 5th September
Around the old buildings and museums of King's Lynn...
Norfolk 2003: Hunstanton, 6th September
Fulmars from above!
Norfolk 2003: Cley, 7th September
A trip to Cley. This shows the reserve as it used to be...
Norfolk 2003: Holkham Hall, 8th September
Holkham Hall is a lovely stately home with deer, lakes...
Norfolk 2003: Wells-next-the-Sea, 9th September
It's Wells, the one next to the sea.
Norfolk 2003: Burnham Market, 9th September
"Norfolk's Loveliest Village" apparently.
Norfolk 2003: King's Lynn, 10th September
Wrapping up our holiday in Hunstanton...
Norfolk 2003
The old version of the website broke galleries into separate pages and directories...
Italy 2004: travelling, 26th March
Photos from the flight over to Italy
Italy 2004: Pompeii, 28th March
Pompeii was buried under ash after the eruption of Mount Ves...
Italy 2004: Capri, 29th March
Popped over to the island hideaway of the rich and famous!
Italy 2004: Pertosa Caves, 30th March
Limestone caves, accessible by boat. Some great formations...
Italy 2004: Paestum Temples, 30th March
Greek temples in Italy.
Italy 2004: Amalfi Drive, 31st March (part 3)
This somehow became a VERY long section so I've split it int...
Italy 2004: Amalfi Drive, 31st March (part 2)
This somehow became a VERY long section so I've split it int...
Italy 2004: Amalfi Drive, 31st March (part 1)
This somehow became a VERY long section so I've split it int...
Italy 2004: Vesuvius, 28th March
Walking up the volcano felt like I was going to have a heart...
Italy 2004: Sorrento, 27th March
Out and about in Sorrento
Locations >
Arundel from a moving train
Although I bought the camera at the computer show in October...
Battersea Park in Autumn
Not long after I got my first digital camera...
Nottingham, canalside in the snow
A walk along the canal in Nottingham.
Fishbourne
On Saturday 20th(?) January 2001 the weather was very clear (and so quite cold)...
Nottingham walk, July 2001
A walk on a sunny day past the old swimming baths on Bath St...
Weald & Downland Museum, August 2001
The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum is a sort of building...
Fishbourne 2
Taking the folks to see the inlet at Fishbourne. Not quite as wet as before...
Edinburgh
In town for Roger and Eva's Wedding. See also Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle
See also: Edinburgh, Roger and Eva's Wedding
Nottingham bits, December 2001
A few shots from around Nottingham...
Newark
Family trip to Newark
Richard I Re-enactment, Nottingham Castle, June 2002
A rainy day in Nottingham...
London
I'm standing on London Bridge, but the picture is of Tower Bridge. Although...
Arundel Castle
A selection of photos from a visit to Arundel Castle
Gosport Submarine Museum, 2002
A fun day geeking out over Navy tech...
Nottingham, Autumn-Winter 2002
Back in Nottingham for Christmas...
Chichester
Just a few pics in and around Chichester.
Newark 2
Another family trip to Newark to do the trip down the river we didn't get time for th...
Dumfries
Wanting to try out my new camera properly...
Chichester 2
Miscellaneous bits and pieces snapped around Chichester...
Docklands 2
Going back to the docklands hosting facility to fix my broken server.
Chichester 3
The Cathedral pics are mostly test shots while I waited for the return of the peregri...
Baslow, Peak District
After doing some work in Manchester...
Nottingham, Winter 2003-2004
Miscellaneous shots from around Nottingham...
Nottingham, 2004
Miscellaneous trips around Nottingham, including a bike rally...
Liverpool
A trip up to Liverpool, and doing the Beatles tour.
Liverpool 2
Up in Liverpool doing server installs, we had an afternoon off to have a wander...
London, November 2004
Wandering around London, killing time between meetings.
Nottingham Castle, March 2005
Despite being Nottingham born and bred...
Nottingham Castle, June 2005
A medieval battle re-enactment at Nottingham Castle.
London, January 2006
A proper test of my new camera: London in the Winter sun.
St. George's Day, Nottingham Castle, 2007
I think this may have been the first big St.
Nottingham Caribbean Carnival, July 2007
Photos from the Caribbean Carnival around the Old Market Squ...
Sneinton Carnival, July 2007
Although the drummers were keeping the pace when we got ther...
Weather >
Chichester Flooding
During the Winter of 2000/2001 the South of England was hit by some of the worst floo...
Nottingham Snowscenes, December 2001
Running around like a kid taking pictures of everything...
Nottingham Sunsets, 2001-2002
Various sunsets from the early 2000s
Nottingham Mist
Up on the Mounts, the weather can get a little weird due to the unusual geography...
Sussex Weather (Flooding), 2003
I think the idea of this page was...
Nottingham Sunsets, 2003
More sunsets over Nottingham, this time from 2003.
Chichester Snow
During the day we laughed at the suggestion that it might snow...
Chichester weather, 2001-2004
The good thing about British weather is that there's so much...
More Nottingham Sunsets
Just a few more colourful sunsets from my home city.
Death of a Tree
So one stormy Saturday morning a tree near my house blew down into someone's front ga...
Geek stuff >
Textures
Random background stuff
Bletchley Park, 2001
Celebrating the release of Enigma, the film based on Robert Harris's novel.
Docklands
In and around the hosting facility this server used to sit in.
Wildlife >
Squirrels
The first batch were taken in Priory Park, Chichester on Saturday 10th November.
Nottingham Squirrels
Squirrels after the bird food in my patents' garden.
Squirrels 2
A folly-up to the previous squirrel pics, but with a supporting cast
Pond
The contents of the old pond
Mute Swan
A selection of mute swan pictures collected together from various other photo pages h...
Waxwings, Nottingham 2004
Pictures taken just behind the Carlton Road Library in Notti...
Nature
Random bits of nature photography from various places (Chichester and London certainl...
Greenfinches
Pictures of the chunky garden bird.
Robin
It's some pictures of robins!
Goldfinches
Pictures of the popular songbird.
House Martins
House martins nesting under eaves
Blackbird
Pictures of blackbirds
Wildlife
Miscellaneous wildlife pics; mostly taken at work!
Fox
For some time now my parents have spotted foxes in their suburban garden...
Ladybird Hatch
This appears to be a mass of Harlequin Ladybirds emerging from their larval stage en...
Foxes
A selection of fox pics and videos from my back garden
Collared Dove
Pictures of Collared Doves
Hedgehog
The stair climbing one is my favourite!
The Mounts, Summer 2019
In July the birds go quiet and birdwatchers become butterfly...
Birdwatching >
Colwick Country Park, July 2001
A walk around Colwick Country Park with the family (includin...
Pagham Harbour, August 2001
Pagham Harbour's just north of Selsey Bill...
Pagham Harbour, July 2002
A short sequence of images from the beach at Pagham Harbour.
Fishbourne 3
Having tried digiscoping in my previous trip to the inlet...
Peregrine, Chichester, February 2004
Various pics taken of the peregrines nesting on Chichester C...
Canalside Herons
A walk down Nottingham's canal saw at least one, if not two, very sociable Herons.
Colwick Country Park, January 2004
A walk in the sunshine around Colwick Country Park
Peregrine, Chichester, July 2004
Checking back in on the peregrines a few months later.
Herring Gulls on the way to work
The gulls I snapped on my way to work...
Herring Gull Chick
The herring gulls that sat on the roof at work apparently did more than just sitting...
Old Moor and Potteric Carr, November 2004
The weather wasn't great...
Colwick Country Park, December 2004
These shots are from the Notts RSPB "Tinsel Walk" pre-Christ...
Sora Rail, December 2004
At the end of December a rare Sora Rail arrived in Nottingha...
Attenborough, December 2004
Taken before the visitor's centre was opened...
Norfolk Birdwatching, December 2004
A trip to Norfolk, looking for King Eider at Titchwell...
Clumber Park, January 2005
The Nottingham RSPB post-Christmas walk.
Chichester and Fishbourne
This is my attempt at some solo birdwatching...
Peregrines, Chichester, March 2005
It seems like every year...
Swithland Reservoir, April 2006
RSPB trip to Swithland Reservoir in Leicestershire
Colwick Country Park, May 2006
A walk around Colwick Country Park, with lots of goslings.
Cley Marshes, September 2006
Cley Marshes as it used to be - by the time you read this...
Attenborough, April 2007
Mostly just pictures of Great Crested Grebe as one was very...
Attenborough, May 2007
Just a walk on a sunny day, and everywhere around were young birds...
Attenborough, June 2007
Spent Father's Day taking Dad around Attenborough.
Spurn NR, October 2016
Photos from the recent Spurn trip with the Nottingham RSPB local group.
Leighton Moss, November 2016
If you ever go to Leighton Moss, remember to take bird food.
Padley Gorge (May 2019)
Walking seven miles of moors and woodland around the Longsha...
Titchwell (April 2019)
Quite a grey, miserable day but some great birds! So many avocet pictures...
Attenborough May 2019
Pics from Attenborough on a lovely early summers day.
Wicken Fen, June 2019
A walk (and boat trip) around Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire.
Transport >
Red Arrows, Chichester, July 2003
The Red Arrows flew over the offices in Chichester.
Dumfries to Chichester
You can tell when I get bored or nervous - I start shooting everything in sight.
Trains
Random railway representations
Emergency
No grand plan for this page...
Red Arrows, Chichester, June 2004
The Red Arrows always display at the Goodwood Festival of Sp...
Jet
A jet doing stunts
Vehicles
Random vehicle pics
History >
British Museum
Visiting the British Museum in 2001...
Fishbourne Roman Palace
One of the largest villas found in the UK...
Fishbourne Celtic Day
The Roman Palace at Fishbourne...
British Museum 2
After hearing of the Cutting Edge Japanese Swords exhibition at the British Museum...
Gardens >
West Dean Chilli Festival, August 2001
This is where it all started...
Borde Hill Gardens
Visit to some lovely gardens near Haywards Heath
Work >
Photo shoot, London, 2001
The dotcom I worked for had some photographers in to do a ph...
ArgoNet/Freedom2 Offices, Chichester, 2001
Where I used to work in Chichester.
Freedom 2 Offices and Staff, Chichester, 2001
Pictures of the people and kit that hung around the Chichest...
SpiritFM
No, it's not a sauna...
Manchester Trips
Up on another install
Manchester Trips 2
Up in Manchester to teach people how to use our systems
BETT 2004 show setup
I helped set up one of the stands at the 2004 BETT show. However...
Freedom 2 Staff, Chichester, 2004
This was about the time when some of our test servers got so...
Manchester
Up in Manchester on an install
Shows and Visits >
RISC OS show (Epsom, Oct 2000)
This gallery is notable as the first time I used a proper di...
Funfair
Another early test of my first digital camera...
RISC OS Show 2001
Images for the show report on the Icon Bar (and which was used in German show report...
Chinese State Circus
When the Chinese State Circus came to little old Chichester.
RSPB
An RSPB local group Autumn Fair kind of thing
Sherwood Forest, August 2004
The Robin Hood Festival in 2004
Riverside Festival, Nottingham, August 2004
The Riverside Festival on the Embankment is a bit like a lar...
Fistful of Tacos - Mark and Matt
I went with Matt Gray to hear him and Mark play at Fistful o...
Random >
Signs and Objects
Most of these were taken so that they could be converted into clipart and otherwise b...
Steel Cobra
Some pics of Jason Tribbeck's Steel Cobra project.
Macro
Various tests of the macro facility of my new toy^H^H^Hcamera.
Icecream
A few pics from my early attempts to make icecream.