September Newsletter

Rothiemurchus, Cairngorms National Park.

Greetings from Yorkshire!

If you've been reading my blog for a while you'll probably know that I have a passion for conservation. I recently began volunteering at my local hedgehog rescue centre. Hedgehogs are such curious little critters which I've long had a soft spot for. It seems to me that they get a raw deal; I see far more dead hedgehogs by the roadside than actual live ones. It seems to me that hedgehogs need all the help they can get. It's been very rewarding, and at times entertaining, caring for these prickly characters, each with their own personality. Like many species hedgehogs will hibernate over winter. It struck me that as many creatures are preparing themselves for the colder, darker months ahead, the lesser spotted landscape photographer is emerging from creative hibernation and readying themselves for the drama of autumn and winter.

Tomorrow I head back up to the Cairngorms National Park. If you're new to the blog, the Cairngorms is where I'm working on my ongoing series 'Beyond the Cairn' [Published in Black+White Photography, issue #285]. This trip will involve the usual biking and hiking, but the main objective as always is to connect deeply with the wild nature of this beautiful wilderness.

I have added new workshop dates for winter 2026 - please see link here. Three 1-day creative photography workshops in some of my personal favourite and visually productive locations, including a little known East Yorkshire woodland where I made my 'Winter Solitude' series, the ever-changing and dramatic Spurn Point, and another date up in the wild Cairngorms.

Excitingly, during October/November I will be presenting a series of talks for the Royal Photographic Society Landscape Group. You can catch all the details for these talks in my previous blog post here.

Huge thanks to everyone that has purchased one of my two recently released monographs 'Forest Visions' & 'Where the North Winds Blow: The Wild Purity of Unst'. The eBook format has proved popular and on a personal level it feels good to have my projects presented in full for you to view.

I am working on further eBooks of various projects and also an as yet untitled landscape photography guide. I hope this 'how to' will offer fresh insights and inspiration for photographers of all abilities. You can view currently available eBooks here.

That's all for now. Talk soon, perhaps if time and internet signal allows, live from the Cairngorms!

Karl.