Being on the sea has always been a major part of my lifestyle living on Alderney. I am either in it or on it nearly every day. Although I spend a lot of my time flying places or even sailing places to photograph weddings in the UK and the rest of the channel islands, I find the week days I am on the water more and I take only really photos of the sea and boats.

Last week we had a training sailing ship called the 'Tenacious' sail into Braye Harbour- Alderney and I got the following photographs from the little rib owned by one of Alderney's restaurants 'The Georgian House' who I used to and sometimes still do work for.

As some of you may know the fog in Alderney can come in think and fast. I was down working on the boat the other day when within 10 minutes the fog had turned the visibility from 3 miles to 20 feet.

Lucky this time it stayed around for half a hour and then it was gone.
These photos taken on my Fujifilm x100s which I luckily had with me on the boat.

Been doing so much sailing recently its great! Here is my little Wharram Tiki 26 Catamaran A Roamer of Alderney, anchored in Telegraph bay in Alderney on what felt like the hottest day of the year. Can beat it!

I dont know how much you may know of my little catamaran. A Roamer was built by my parents 25 years ago here in Alderney. after 15 years of use she was taken out the water and left to sit and rot for the last 10 years. Last year I went to inspect the damage. The main structural beam which holds it all together. gave way under by foot. I have spent the last year re-building her and she is a good as new!

This has been transport for me to get to the UK and around the Channel Islands to photograph weddings. What fun! Here is a little video I made Sailing from Poole to Alderney

Never seen lightning like this lightning storm which passed by Alderney on the 7th June. In the past any lightning I have seen might be once every 10 minutes, this was once every 5 seconds and never heard any thunder. was Strange

Force 10 winds and very heavy snow. I am trying to get into the habit of taking my camera everywhere I go. You never know when there is a cool shot and it is always very annoying when you dont have your camera. This week Alderney and the rest of the Channel islands got battered with strong winds and snow. These are my photographs from the few days of storm on the island.

Another bunch of photographs from my trip around new zealand. All going well but a bit worries as camera charger is broken and only 2 batteries left... Going to have to search around for a new charger! Still alive even though a tsunami hit new Zealand last night. As i pulled up at the beach it was saying on the radio how people were being moved to higher ground and to stay away from the beaches... but the surf looked too good :P

Been all over the place. Left Cape Reinga and went down south through Waipoua Forest where we went and saw the worlds biggest Kauri Trees, Massive! 51.5m high and a trunk girth of 13.8m. Some have been around for over 2000 years! We also visited some amazing black sand beaches. I had no shoes on and was burning my feet it was that hot. See me running to the water in need of cooling down my feet. Most of the photos speak for themselves... Enjoy :)

Been spending a lot of time driving, seen some amazing views, been on some amazing tracks, stayed at some awesome free Campsites. Been bitten alive by mosquitos (it looks as if I have some deadly skin desease :P) Drunk lots of warm beer and cold red wine. Result of all this. AMAZING EXPERIENCE SO FAR!!!

My first few days on my road trip around new zealand were awesome! My original plan was to drive north from Whangarei to Bay of Islands where I was going to go fishing. But as it was a bit windy I thought I would drive west to Dargaville where I would then drive north to the bottom of 90 Mile beach. I would then go east and around down to Bay of islands a few days later so that the weather would hopefully have gotten better. The roads were very twisty twiny but was great fun to drive. Especially in the Golf that I am using while I am over here. I found a few awesome surf spots on my travels along the coast and was so nice to jump into the water in board shorts, have a quick surf, jump back into the car and drive to the next place.

On my travels I met a french girl called Laurie. She had loads of information on awesome campsites to go to and sites to see. Our first campsite that night had a river going through it which we could swim in, was so nice jumping off the rocks into the river in the morning before setting off. I have spent the last few days traveling with her and leaving in a hour or so in her car up to the most north place in New Zealand- Cape Reinga. There is some surf up there so going to show the New Zealanders how to surf ;) There is also some massive sand dunes which I think we are going to take the fins off my surf board to go down on them on. Going to Be an awesome few days and will defo post some more photos soon! Chow Chow for now!