Worthing sunset panorama

For the last week I have been mainly office bound, doing accounts and edits. However yesterday I had to leave the building for 5 minutes as I had run out of milk!

The radio was full of news about poor weather, snow and ice but the light I saw as I walked to the shops was amazing. So much so I turned round grabbed the camera (D700 + 50mm in you’re interested), tripod, panoramic head and headed for the beach.

The result was an image I have had in my head for quite some time; a 13 image panorama of the sunset, beach and pier.



The image could be printed up to 4M long, perfect for the walls of a local business!

Cissbury Ring – A walk above Worthing

So, where better to start my downland walks than 5 minutes from home with a walk up to the Iron Age Hill Fort - Cissbury ring (map location here).

The walk was a nice 1 and a half mile gentle climb up to the fort, taking a few “stock” images along the way, spending about an hour walking around the fort before returning down another path. The weather was really warm and the sky clear but very hazy meaning “view” shots would have muted colours with a lack of definition in the distance which was not really what I was after for my project to show the rolling landscape of sussex.

I was however able to capture the strange, almost desolate feel in the ring itself with this monochrome image.

However, as yet I am not sure how to treat this. The reason being is the land/ring itself is National Trust property but running through it are public footpaths. The national trust have a photography policy which states no commercial photography on it’s land without permission;

The National Trust does not permit photography or filming at its properties for commercial use or for reproduction in any form without prior written permission. These restrictions apply only to photography taken within the grounds of National Trust properties and does not apply to public highways and paths.Photographs taken for private and personal use may not be used in any other context, submitted to any photo libraries or on-line agencies or sold directly to any image buyers. All requests for commercial photography taken for profit at any pay-for-entry property must be channelled through the Broadcast and Media Liaison Office.

I ensured the tripod was positioned on a footpath however, until I check a local OS Map, I cannot be sure that the path was a public footpath or a NT one, there is also the clause above about any “pay for entry” site. There is no payment for entry to the ring. Until I can clarify the position, this reproduction is just for enjoyment;


So, enjoy…..

New personal project



I have been racking my brain to come up with a new personal project over the past few weeks. I now have 2…


Living by the sea, there are so many things to photograph within a few minutes walk of my home but the problem is they have all been photographed before, in so many ways. Of course, my point of view is always going to be different to others, so I hope my “Worthing” project will offer a new and contemporary view of the seafront. The problem is, part of this needs to be completed after sunset and I am not really keen to go to the sites I have marked out alone, in the dark with £xxx.00 of camera kit…

The second project is to apply my knowledge and skill of interior panoramics to the sussex countryside. It’s with this in mind that I went off walking along the river Adur yesterday to test myself and my techniques. Whilst the viewpoint I choose is not exactly inspiring I am now confident in what I have to carry and how to create what I hope will be a fantastic set..

I love Sussex, I think it is a wonderful county with so much tucked away with 90% of it’s population not being aware of anything thats not 100M away from a road. My aim therefore is to capture the wide openness and the outstanding natural beauty of this county.

That said – my test shot did not exactly fall into that category although the scale and detail are without doubt to the standard I am looking for.