When you "take a chance" with two bars of battery and hope for the best. Perhaps one of the best photographs that I have ever taken.

"Sometimes it is the best photographs which are taken within a moment, a split second even, a moment of observation and having a camera with you at the right time within the right place, well you end up with something truly magical and rewarding at the end of it."

And that is incredibly true, it was on Saturday the 14th of June 2025 that I was looking out the window at the clouds, for they had gone dark, and I knew that there was going to be something truly amazing - and surely enough there was, but what was it? I could see in the distance a beautiful Rainbow in the sky, but I just wanted to capture it, and get the entire rainbow in shot. So what did I have to do? Ah, that was of course get the drone, set it up and with only two bars of battery in the drone I sent it into the air, and captured the following photos. 

"A Pot of Gold perhaps in The Erewash Valley?"

"Beauty of The Rainbow, the view towards The Erewash."

"The arc of Colour, Beauty of Nature over Suburbia."

"From Urban to Countryside and maybe Gold?"

"Art in the sky from 400ft."

"A Panorama of Colour, the arts of the Rainbow."

From the archives: Sometimes we just need to look up at the artist called Nature when it paints the sky.

One of the most interesting things about landscape photography is "just how the sky, can make for an interesting subject within any landscape photo." And that in itself is true, a landscape with a glorious sky, a sunrise, a sunset, even just colours within it can make all the difference, but I as a photographer also have a certain thing for the observation of cloudscapes, and when there is a certain colour in the sky, or even glorious clouds being lit up, well I just have to capture them, and in August of 2022, I remember vividly the sky exploding into a symphony of colours, pinks and purple that looked as if they had been painted - maybe they had, but me, well I just had to capture them and in the end this is what I had managed to capture.

"Islands in Pink and Purple Glow."

"Through layers of grey, the painting of the sky."

"Swirls and Magical Cotton Layers a Glow."

"Finding Serenity in the Glow of Colours."

"As the sky becomes a work of Art."

"The Change."

A "Bennerley" kind of Sunrise.

If there is one essential item of photography kit that any landscape photographer should own, then it has to be the following,

"A Tripod in The Sky."

Now you might be wondering what one of those is? Well quite simply it is of course a Drone, a piece of kit that in my opinion every landscape photographer should have, and that is because a drone offers the ability to capture the landscape from a completely different and unique perspective. And it was on the morning of the 5th of March 2025, that I ended up awaking at lets just say "daft o'clock" in the morning to head to The Majestic Iron Giant - known as The Bennerley Viaduct: https://www.bennerleyviaduct.org.uk/ in order to meet up with fellow friend and Landscape Photographer, Craig Yates for a sunrise photography shoot of the sun rising from The Bennerley Viaduct, this time around though I took the Drone with me, and below are the photographs that I managed to come away with, having witnessed nature doing what it does best, and that is creating a work of art across the landscape. 

"The dance of the light, a Magical Bennerley Sunrise." - (Panorama.)

"As the sun breaks, below a landscape it glows."

"The art of Colour, A Winston of a Sunrise." - (Panorama.)

"The Magic of Light, A Spectacular Sunrise Sight." - (Panorama.)

"That light, a Purple, and Pink Hue, the Valley Shines Below."