I caught a crab!
Giving it the David Attenboroughs.

I’m a writer and photographer based in Hebden Bridge in the West Yorkshire Pennines.

My interests include the natural world, the British countryside, science in general, and Charles Darwin in particular. I combined these interests in my first book, On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk. It’s about digging deeper into the things I encounter on my local patch. It’s good: you should definitely check it out—by which, I mean buy it.

I’m currently working on a book about looking at the world through Darwin’s eyes.

Recent posts

Bookshop Literary conventions Photographers are not unsuccessful painters, and factual writers are not wannabe novelists.
Wuthering Heights (2026) The real Wuthering Heights In which I rant about the West Yorkshire Pennines’ identity crisis.
Feel-good February This disconcertingly mild winter, I’m going to enjoy February or die in the attempt.
Choughs 2025: a year in photos My fifteenth annual video slideshow.
Jane Austen Charles Darwin reviews Jane Austen A short piece to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
Richard Carter No cause for alarm Don’t worry: I haven’t been taken seriously ill; I’ve just updated my profile photo.

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c.14,500-year-old spear thrower In the shape of a mammoth carved from a reindeer antler Rich Text newsletter No. 37: ‘These people knew mammoths!’ Ice age art • Robert Macfarlane • Kathleen Jamie • medieval poems • lichen • Barbarian Conspiracy • the Shipping Forecast • escaping the entropy • and more…

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