Field Notes 2025
Field Notes From Scotland – August 2025
Our long-awaited Scotland trip promised the chance of Basking Shark encounters around the island of Coll, but the weather turned on us as we headed over to the island.
Though we were able to go out on the boat each day on each of the three days we booked, the conditions were rough and far from ideal, resulting in us being unable to find any sharks. A few days earlier, they were seen in much better conditions by the previous group.
Photographically, we didn’t capture much at all on the overall trip, but that’s how things go sometimes, and there was nothing that could be done about it.
It beckons towards a return trip. – JC
Field Notes From Motorcycling In Europe & The Spanish Grand Prix – May/June 2025
Motorcycling and photography don’t combine easily together without significant effort.
On one hand the urge to keep riding to a destination is strong, especially when one knows it’s a lot of mileage, whilst at the same time you feel compelled to stop and take pictures of some of the scenery and vistas in which you find yourself, and places where you pull over for drinks, snacks and comfort breaks.
As always, I think that I could have captured more images, and with this trip it was no different. That said, I use now use my phone camera more than I used to, as well as the SLR camera stashed in my tank bag.
Photographically, I simply grabbed images along the way to document some of what I did. They would be enough to illustrate features.- JC
Field Notes From The South Devon Coast – April 2025
We enjoyed a good week on Devon’s South Coast, based at Branscombe, but it didn’t really turn into a photography trip. All we did was to capture a few (pleasing) “snaps”.
A nice week, but the photography was nothing to write home about. – JC
Field Notes From Bimini In The Bahamas – February 2025
Our return Shark diving visit to the Bahamas in search of the Great Hammerhead, this time in Bimini.
We had a very good week, getting six diving days with the sharks.
Photographically, we captured a decent set of images of the Great Hammerhead shark feeds, with the greatest challenges being fixed to one spot, trying to avoid the clutter of other divers next to us, getting a good combination of the shark and the shark feeder (so that you don’t end up with a “shark with human legs”), and dealing with suspended particles and varying visibility.
Also, I did a single 20-minute cage dive with the Bull Sharks by the boat dock near the dive centre and captured what I could. In summary, a great trip with some good images captured, using my 10-17mm fisheye zoom underwater, Amanda an 18-35mm, and above water, we also shot images of the people and place. – JC