I’m an award winning landscape photographer based in the Northeast of England.

Although the area is known for coal mining and shipbuilding, I am surrounded by breath taking scenery and beautiful Georgian architecture.

My pictures lay bare my photographic journey. My passion for my art.

I still feel the same now as I did when I was a child, always looking for that unusual tree, door or whatever it was that excited me in that moment.

Then, I had a basic Kodak box camera, memorably followed by an Ilford Bellows camera, which folded flat. The design of this intrigued me then, just as much as the design of nature does today.

Sadly, for my family and friends I have never been so very interested in taking pictures of people and events.

But I do find miles of hidden inspiration in Edwardian and Victorian buildings.

Our cities and their facades expose the contrast between the old and the new, suffused together in their silhouette.

More often though, I can be fascinated just as intently by the moon as by a blade of grass. Flora and fauna are my forte. Eventually, we realise that we take our best pictures when we feel passionately about the subject.

I have delved into the genre of Digital Art where I blend several of my original photographs into one original piece in order to tell or enhance a story, these images are not AI creations they are blended photographs.

Website: www.MR-photography.co.uk

SME Best Landscape Photographer SE Northumberland 2022/23/24/25

Innovation and Excellence Awards Best Landscape photographer North Tyneside 2023/24

Global Legal 100 awards Best Landscape Photographer SE Northumberland 2023/24

Michael Rickwood.