On a close reach - # 09/62

A typical scene on the Suffolk coast. This vessel looks to be a good 75 years old. Sailing fast, sails reefed; the stiff breeze from the North Sea is strong enough to lay her over to the rail. She's all wood and brass and full of style: captured sailing past the ancient Suffolk village of Orford, a place with more than 1,000 years of British history to tell.

The North Sea - # 09/60

Here be Vikings..............at certain times of year the wind sort of just blows them towards England. They have to come. They can't help it.

I grew up by the North Sea. I could sit here for hours trying to capture the greyness, the twinkling light, the turbulence. B&W tonality is (for me at least) the best way to show it.