I must have processed this shot at least ten times since I shot it back in April of this year, and up until today I couldn't come up with a version I liked. This one I'm happy with.

This was taken in Satwa in Dubai, outside a small bakery. Apparently the item they're working on is part of the inlet valve for the oven. I'm not sure what was wrong with it, but it certainly provided a good opportunity for a photograph.

Here's another shot from my trip to Masirah Island (Oman). It's not quite as striking as some of the other shots of these fishing boats, but it does capture something of the peace and tranquility of the trip. I wish I was there now :)

This is probably the last of the shots I'll be posting from our recent trip to the Lake District: a shot of an old barn - the black building on the left - and a pillbox perched on a small sand dune on the beach at Drigg. If you're not familiar with pillboxes: in England 28,000 of these were built during the early years of World War II, to defend the coast and tidal estuaries. Several thousand still exist, but most, like this one, have seen better days.

This is the first of two related images that were taken during my Shoot the Street workshop at this years GPP event. Both were shot at the same spot - the plastic curtains that divide the fish market from the meat section - and of the two I prefer the one I'll be posting tomorrow: it's less abstract, but has a surreal quality that I like.

My final vehicle related shot from Masirah Island, though what I especially like about this one - the way the car and wires shimmer in the heat - doesn't really come across all that well at this resolution.

My penultimate vehicle related shot from Masirah Island, a mud flap from a Nissan, found on one of the many small beaches we visited during the trip.

If you take a look at the original you'll see that I changed my mind about the framing on this one - the original shot seemed too tight, and lacking in context. Either way, this was an interesting find: a Unimog, parked on the southernmost beach of Masirah Island.

The third and final shot in this small series, and one that may be a bit difficult to work out if you haven't seen either of the other two.

Our trip out to the desert, for my Landscape Photography workshop at this year's GPP event, was an interesting one as it was extremely windy. Normally I don't mind the wind - you can't live on the north west coast of England if you can't cope with a bit of wind - but it's a real hazard is the desert: the sand howls around, filling every available crevice it comes into contact with. Which is OK for ears, eyes, pockets and so on, but not so good for cameras and lenses. Anyway, we survived the ordeal, all got some great shots, and our gear survived the trip.

I can't remember exactly where this was taken, but we were about an hour from Masirah on our way back to Dubai when we spotted these elegantly arranged trees not far from the side of the road.

Here's the first of the shots I'll be posting from my Shoot the City workshop I ran today at #GPP2015. I'm not convinced I 100% nailed it, but I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out.

Another quiet image today.

Another shot of the 2014 Hong Kong Protests. I almost posted a different version of this one last week, a high contrast black and white, with little or no detail in the sky, but spent some time reworking it this morning as I wanted to create a slightly more surreal version. I'm not sure it's 100% successful, but I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out.

A quick snap taken during the opening ceremony of the TTL[HK] event I've been teaching at this weekend. This was also taken with the new Fujifilm 50-140mm f/2.8, which is fast turning into one of my favourite lenses - it's very sharp.

It's been a while since I shot anything I truly liked, but I'm pleased with this one.

The Dubai skyline, shot from the public beach at Jumeirah. Graffiti courtesy of Arcadia Blank.

To follow on from my previous two shots of the isolated restaurant, here's an equally lonely building we stumbled upon on our trip round Oman.

On the road, between Ibri and Nizwa in Oman.

I still have a few more shots to post from Masirah Island (Oman) but this is the last of the sunsets.