Have you ever looked at some of the wonderful lanscape photographs from around the world and thought, ‘I’d love to do that?’. I’ve done it a lot over the years and so, as I am now in the Lake District, I’m doing it. Kind of.

The first thing I’m doing, is not taking a camera out. I’m not scouring other people’s work and nor am I constantly checking the weather forecast. What I am doing, is walking.

The adage of ‘a good photograph is knowing where to stand’ is true but I’ve learnt a simple truth in photography; there is no short cut. Yes, you can do a lot in post production but that won’t compensate if you didn’t know where to stand to begin with. Here in the Lakes, there appears to be a million places to stand but I want to find them all for myself.

I think I’ve got ADHD. Standing still is not something I like to do so this is all a little alien.

Field work. That’s what Alan told me to do. I never understood it but now I do. You need to go out and discover the landscape. It is all there for you but you need to see it. And see it your way. The light in nature will do what it will do so you need to watch it and see how it works. Or how it doesn’t. I’ve watched in awe how sunrise has majestically arrived and caught a peak or two that I’m in no position to photograph.