Weeping willow overhanging the lake at Harewood House

I visited Harewood House in Leeds for the first time in August this year. The lake, house and gardens are lovely and I'll definitely go back (especially for the afternoon tea overlooking the terrace!). The bright sunlight was just breaking through these thick weeping willow branches on the edge of the lake creating shadows, reflections and shimmering colours on the water.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/5, 1/125s, 35mm, hand held.

Tree framed by shadows on Great Whernside

I took this one towards the start of a walk up Great Whernside from Kettlewell in April this year. It was a windy day, with the clouds being blown across the sun, creating shadows across the hillside. I liked how, at this moment, they seemed to frame the tree against the sunlit background.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/6.3, 1/250s, 35mm, hand held.

Sunlight catching a bridge in Whinlatter Forest.

This is from our holiday to Keswick in August this year. I liked the way the sun was catching the bridge and creating shadows on the lit-up patch of ground beneath it.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/4.5, 1/60s, -0.7step exp bias, 35mm, hand held.

Sunshine and bluebells at Hardcastle Crags.

This is a section of the riverside path between Midgehole car park and Gibson Mill at Hardcastle Crags, photographed in early June last year.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/11, 1/125s, 28mm, hand held.

Ripples, reflections and shadows on Ullswater.

I took this from the lakeside path around Ullswater last month. I like the complexity of the picture - all caused by the overhanging tree branches.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/2.5, 1/250s, -1 step exp bias, 35mm, hand held.

Shadows from trees on the wall of an old canal-side mill (3)

A third photo of the mill at Luddenden Foot (April 2015). This time it's a full view of the mill, omitting the canal beneath it. The tree shadows look like they've been painted onto the wall.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/9, 1/100s, 22mm, hand held.

Shadows and pedestrians crossing Southwark Bridge, London.

I'm always drawn to photograph this bridge when in London. In this image, from March last year, my main focus was the contrasting lines of the cranes, buildings and shadows, but I also really like the silhouetted pedestrians against the bridge wall.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/80s, 32mm, hand held.

Shadows from trees on the wall of an old canal-side mill (2)

I posted a picture similar to this one in June last year, 2 months after taking the photos. This image is a wider shot that includes the canal and more of the mill. For anyone who knows the area, this is the mill at Luddenden Foot that now houses Springfield Camping.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/8, 1/100s, 18mm, hand held.

Shadows and reflections on the Rochdale canal

I took this on a late afternoon in April this year when the sun was low and the shadows long. It's somewhere between Luddenden Foot and Mytholmroyd.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/8, 1/80s, 22mm, hand held.

Light and shade across the Luddenden valley

This is from February this year. There were lots of clouds around and the sun was popping in and out, lighting up patches of the hillside, whilst leaving other areas in deep shadows. Usually I try to avoid putting telegraph lines in an image, but I liked how they emphasised the contrast here - they're lit up in the foreground sun against the dark backdrop of trees.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/11, 1/100s, 55mm, hand held.

Shadows of branches cast across a stone canal bridge

I took this one in April this year on the Rochdale canal, just outside Sowerby Bridge. It was around 5pm so the sun was quite low, casting strong shadows and bringing out the colours in the stone.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/250s, 18mm, hand held.

Sunlight filtering through trees onto a fenced bridge

This is the old railway path between Keswick and Threlkeld, photographed on last year's summer holiday. I could (and do!) take endless photos walking along this path.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/20s, 46mm.

Reflected sunlight on a building wall and pavement

I took this on Southwark Bridge Road, London, in March this year. The low morning sunlight was hitting the buildings on the opposite side of the road and was being reflected from their windows onto these walls, with the railings making shadows across the pavement.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/200s, 20mm, hand held.

Sun-lit, shadowy tree-covered lane in Summer

This lane is not far from Withens Clough reservoir - I took the photo on a walk round there from Cragg Vale, in June this year. The focusing could be sharper (think I struggled with the low light) but I love the image too much to delete it!

Camera/lens settings: ISO 200, f/8, 1/125s, 32mm, hand held.

Shadows from a fence along the Rochdale canal towpath

I took this in April this year, on the canal bank between Mytholmroyd and Sowerby Bridge. It was around tea time and the sun was low, creating strong shadows from the fence across the path. I converted it to black and white to make sure these lines were the main focus of the image (the vivid blue sky and green grass were quite distracting).

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/80s, 18mm, hand held.

Shadows from branches on sunlit rocks.

I seem to remember one of my sons was climbing this rock in the woods at Hardcastle Crags when I took the photo in April last year. I was waiting for him at the bottom and the contrasting light, lines and colours caught my attention.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/3.5, 1/800s, 90mm, hand held.

Lines, curves and shadows from an ornate Greenwich fence.

This fence runs alongside the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich - I took the photo in March this year. I like the mixture of straight and curved lines from the fence, its shadows and stone edging and the great perspective of them collectively shrinking into the distance.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/8, 1/160s, 32mm, hand held.

Tall tree trunk striped by shadows

I took this one quite a while ago - May 2013 - at Hardcastle Crags. No idea what type of tree this is but it stood out from the others around it for being so tall, with branches only at the top, and looking like its trunk was stripy, due to the shadows cast across it from other trees around.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/3.5, 1/200s, 18mm, hand held.

Sparkling sunlight and shadows on a boggy field

I passed this field whilst walking along the Rochdale canal, between Mytholmroyd and Sowerby Bridge, in April this year. It had obviously been raining a lot previously and this field had cows in it, so the ground was a bit of a mess. I thought it was transformed into something lovely, though, by the long shadows from the trees behind the field and the sparkling reflection from the sun and blue sky on the water.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/100s, 22mm, hand held.

Shadows from clouds across the Littleborough valley

I took this from the track around the reservoirs at Blackstone Edge in March this year. You can see for miles around from up there and I like watching the ever-changing patterns made on the opposite hills by the clouds as they move across the sky.

A sharper photo would be made by stitching several portrait photos together, but having not taken my tripod, this one is just a crop from a 2:3 landscape shot.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/11, 1/160s, 18mm, hand held.