The Britographer

The Britographer is a British nature journal — original field writing and photography about the wild Britain most people walk past.

The verge at the end of the road. The moorhen working the reeds while everyone looks for the kingfisher. The dead nettle quietly holding the bees together through March. The Britographer is what happens when you stop for those things instead.

I write and photograph the Britain that doesn't ask to be looked at — the thing just to the left of the postcard view. A bluebell wood is easy to love. I'm more drawn to the one white bluebell among the blue, the dandelion halfway to seed, the particular light that causes expression and reaction.

The loud thing is rarely the one doing the work, so I tend to stop at the quiet one and let it make its own case — only the sense that the overlooked is worth a proper look, and that most of it is nearer than you'd think. Not the highlands, not somewhere you have to drive to. Usually about as far as the end of your own road.

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Say hello if you like — replies come when the light is bad and the flask is empty.