I haven't posted anything on the blog for ages, so thought I'd share another of the images I shot during one of my GPP workshops earlier this year.

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Three portraits from yesterday's Blackpool Pride Festival in Blackpool, all of which were shot with the Fujifilm X-T1 and 90mm f/2 (my new favourite lens). As always, it was a great event, with lots of great characters.

I remember reading somewhere that if the earth was shrunk to the size of a pool ball, or a pool ball expanded to the size of the earth, the earth would be the smoother of the two.

Before I visited the desert near Dubai for the first time I had a rather romanticised idea about what I might find: rolling dunes, crystal clear skies, and maybe a camel or two. More than anything though, I expected a clean and pristine environment. That wasn't the case: there were motorcycle and dune buggy tracks all over the place - it looked like a carpark after a busy day, albeit a very sandy one. But every disappointment is its own opportunity and since that trip I've made a point of photographing the tracks in the sand whenever I see them. This particular set was shot in November 2013 during my Landscape Photography workshop for Gulf Photo Plus.

One from the archives today, shot during my Landscape Photography workshop for Gulf Photo Plus in November of 2013.

I was trawling through some of my processed images today and came across this one, shot in Dubai in 2014. I have no idea why I didn't post it at the time, so thought I'd share it now.

As always, let me know what you think.

I'd love to be able to tell you a great story about this image, but as I asked Catalin to pose against the fence, I can't :-)

This is the location for the dawn shoot of my #GPP2015 Shoot the City workshop that starts on Saturday. We scouted it this morning, and although the light wasn't ideal I am pleased with how this one turned out.

I could watch the sea for a very long time.

I've posted quite a few shots from this location, shot at much the same time of day, but I thought this one was worth sharing too.

It's also one of the locations we'll be shooting from during my Shoot the City workshop at next years GPP event (further details here).

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I think I could probably sit and watch the sea for a very long time.

Taken last November, on the ferry from Masirah island to mainland Oman.

A fairly recent shot, taken on a cold and windy day on Fleetwood beach.

This is a shot of the JBR skyline in Dubai, taken from the west frond of the Palm, and was shot with the XT-1 and 14mm using a handheld (and panned) 1/2s exposure.

I finally found the time to take a trip up to Fleetwood with the XT-1 and kit lens and came away with two shots that I'm pleased with. Of the two this is probably my favourite, but I'll post the other tomorrow and you can decide between them.

A great reminder that it's better to shoot kids before they get bored, not after: shot during my recent trip to Oman with Issa.

Here's the first of my shots from GPP 2014, taken during my Shoot the City workshop. And for those of you who are interested here's the Google map reference.

Some clouds are decidedly more interesting than others.

This is one of my less remarkable shots from our trip to Masirah Island (Oman) but I thought I'd post it anyway, more as a reminder for myself than for its intrinsic merit (or lack thereof). That said, there are a lot of things I like about it :)

This is the first of a whole bunch of shots I'll be posting from my trip to Oman with Issa Alkindy, shot on the road between Duqm and Muscat.