Seaham, Noses Point to Hawthorn dene

Near Noses Point

With living in seaham, one of my favourite local walks is from Noses Point (SR7 7PS) to the area of Hawthorn Dene.

There is nice woodland walks around the Dene, and depending on which direction you take from the Hawthorn visitor map board (not far from crossing the railway bridge) you can make your walk a short circular or long circular… The former taking the direct route South Easterly towards the big arch bridge (see Arch photo) leading to Blast Beach.

The latter heading west through the woodland paths, and again, depending on which path you take, getting either lost!, or stumbling upon a fairly muddy track that leads to a nice fairly long walk that also leads to the big arch and blast beach! :-) 

Winter Seaham Seas 2013

A Few highlights of photos I took over the winter period by my local seaside.

Summer Seaham Seas 2013

A few photos by my local Sea, Seaham Harbour, over the fine Summer of 2013.

Durham City Cathedral & Ramside

 Durham City Cathedral & Ramside

Photo highlights of a weekend in & around Durham..

I spent the weekend in the start of november mainly in Durham.

On a brisk, cold autumnal day of saturday I enjoyed a short stroll around the cathedral and city taking in the afternoon glow that surrounded the area and saw it as a nice opportunity to try to capture the autumnal landscape.

The following day, I spent out a few miles from Durham city for a sunday lunch and saw another immediate opportunity to take some photos..

Seaham "Green-Flash" Sunrise, August 2012

I Witnessed the rare phenomenon,  "The Green Flash" at Seaham harbour!

A natural phenomenon that occurs on rare occasions usually around caribbean shores..

It happens a few seconds before the sun is just setting or rising.

Basically the sun looked a luminous green before it came up!

Unfortunately, I wasn't quick enough to catch it or switch to video camera mode as I simply didn't expect it to happen! but the sunrise was still good to catch and managed to capture it with a few select photos as you can see in this blog

Brierton – Dalton Farm Countryside, Hartlepool 2007

The collection of photos here were taken in one spell during a snowy period in the Winter of 2007.

I chose to portray them all in black & white as I felt this seemed to suit the atmosphere and feeling of the specific time & place.

Out Of Time & Place (Sun, Sea, Sky)

Rays of light over the sea

The photos here are a random selection taken mainly around my local area of the North East of England.

I can’t exactly remember when I first started getting into Travel & Photography but it must have been somewhere around 1997/8 when I was in Art college and moving on to University.

For some reason I wasn’t particularly concerned with man’s effect on environment but had a desire to capture the natural environment as untouched as it possibly could be...

The natural environment to me was beyond the fashions of Art & Design

but yet expressed a timeless, universal beauty and language shared by One & All.

And so I first started taking photos around the North East of the nearby coast (Seaton, Hartlepool) and nearest mountain range of Roseberry Topping, around the late nineties/early noughties..