Michael Eavis Somerset Dairy Farmer and Festival Creator
I’m a bit of a daydreamer, especially while driving which maybe isn’t an ideal time!
It’s how I got the sudden urge (not sure why) that I should reach out to ask if I might photograph Michael Eavis.
Last May I was asked if I would like to go onto BBC Somersets Trish Campbell’s show to chat about my Life In A Somerset Landscape Project.
Unfortunately, I was in Cornwall at the time and the connection did not hold for long and I was cut off a few minutes in.
Glastonbury Tor Rises Above Ancient Flooded Marsh On The Somerset Levels
Somerset’s old English name translates “Land of the Summer People”
This is due that a large part of the land was wetland marsh only liveable during the summer months when dry enough.
I can still feel that bitter cold morning even now.
I had to drive my children to school and I knew seeing we had a super hard frost that there were some incredible images waiting to be captured. I grabbed my camera as well as the kids and loaded them into the car.
Shapwick Heath is a nature reserve on the Somerset Levels.
I set off that morning with no expectation of what I was going to shoot but just to explore with my camera.
Venice is notorious for being tricky to navigate and it took a fair while for me and my wife to find our hotel and we were slightly concerned of going out later and getting lost in the dark (no Google maps back then).
After firmly locating our hotel in relationship to St Marks Square and Rialto Bridge we felt happier of not being lost in the back streets for an eternity. Read More
Ham Wall is a National Nature Reserve located near Glastonbury on the Somerset Levels in Somerset England and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
I wasn’t sure but I believed I had been here before but it was probably many many years.
Kynance Cove is located on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, England.
One of the first times I visited here was is the early 1990’s while shooting a lifestyle campaign for Clarks Shoes.
Nocturnal #4 Charles Bridge Steps Prague
Several years ago I took a trip to Prague to capture some images for a CGI automotive project I was working on and to also capture some personal images of this historic city.
Following on from my shoot in July of Matravers Master Thatchers harvesting their Wheat harvest I returned last month to capture them combing the same harvest.