All Field Notes
Every note, story, practical ramble and small weather-related incident, gathered in one place.
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How I use AI
How I use AI in my photography, writing, and website-building. Not as a replacement for my voice, but as a tool for distance, structure, and saving the occasional bin fire.
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The view after ‘The View’
I went for the famous view. Obviously. Then I found the gravel roads, pylons, and anglers. And perspective that felt like mine.
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The Small Dark Shape
The Elephant Seal. A small dark shape in the water.
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Gatecrashing the Rock Pool Creche
One Fur Seal pup, clearly doing important field research for the Department of Bad Ideas, kept inching towards the gatecrasher in the rock pool.
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Hiroshima
A quiet walk through Hiroshima, trying to make sense of the weight of a place that is both bustling modern city and unbearable history. With a hug.
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Huffy Puffins
A puffin disagreement, a possible romantic scandal, and an entire cliffside audience behaving as though someone had shouted “fight!” in a school playground.
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The Joy of Small Seals
Over four months at Cape Palliser, I kept returning to the fur seal pups in the rockpools. At first they scattered whenever I arrived. Then, slowly, they forgot about me and returned to the important business of bubbles, seaweed, tiny teeth, ambushes, and small wet chaos.
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Puffins in the Long Light
For four evenings, I drove out to Látrabjarg in search of puffins and found only wind, burrows, and nuffins. On the fifth evening, the cliffs were suddenly full of them; calm, golden, unhurried. I had the quiet privilege of sitting among them for a while.
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Part III | The Disciplines of the Faithful
The settings I use beyond shutter speed and aperture, attempting to demystify RAW vs JPEG, white balance, focus modes, exposure modes, and more, in a camera-agnostic way.
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Part II | The Holy Trinity of Light: How to Prioritise
How I learnt to move to manual camera settings by controlling the Exposure Triangle: The holy trinity of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
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Part I | My Simple “Go To” Camera Settings
My set and forget camera settings. Simple, reliable, and designed to help me avoid fiddling, to stay focused on what I see.
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How I work | My Gear
How I found a photography setup and gear that supports my autistic brain and flow. And why the best tools are the ones that fit the way I see and feel.
