'HeadSpace' is a very personal project for me. At a time in life where life seems to be speeding up, I'm trying very hard to slow it down.

I've turned to landscape photography as a means of attaining mental well-being. Based on the principles of mindfulness, I use long exposures to create images that show the passing of time in a beautiful and peaceful place.

The Coast

The coast is my favourite place to be, as a result the majority of my landscapes are perhaps more accurately seascapes! I take a lot of trips to the sea with my family, and so whilst these may just be pretty pictures of the seaside to you, to me they're very fond memories of times spent on the beaches with my wife and children.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Proust.

I spend a good amount of time exploring the North Yorkshire Coast with my family. We go to Scarborough quite regularly, and from there, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Sandsend, and many of the other towns that pepper the coastline. Each time I go back I try to do something different and see the places I've seen many times before with new eyes.

I try to get down to Devon about once a year. We have family down there, and it's a beautiful part of the world. You can be right up in the top of the moors among the rolling hills and within an hour or so, be right down on the coast with the sand between your toes, and I love that.

Mindfulness is about noticing - noticing where you are and where your mind is. Your mind is quite often not where your body is, it's off somewhere else thinking about bills or food shopping. For me, landscape photography allows me to bring my mind back to my body and live completely in that moment. I feel alive and I feel present. It's these moments that allow me my 'HeadSpace'.

If these photographs say anything it's that I was there, I experienced that, that moment was mine. And out of that moment, this artwork was created.

Inland

Whilst I prefer the coast and naturally gravitate towards it, I do find myself inland from time to time. These are adventures I generally take with my Father who is also a very keen photographer. We don't generally go anywhere that doesn't have a really good tea shop with a selection of home baked cakes!

Let it be, let it be. - Paul McCartney

I can't control the sun. I can't control the moon. I can't control the stars, the tides, the clouds, or the rain. Therefore, my only option is to photograph whatever is actually happening in front of me, and whatever will be, will be. Sometimes it all comes together, and sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Bonus Footage

Whilst HeadSpace in its conception is about long exposures, I do take a lot of other photographs along the way. In some ways these actually mean more to me that the very deliberate landscape photographs as they often depict my family or memories that might have otherwise been forgotten.