Since taking a step away from the cyber security scene, and concentrating the greater part of 2025 so far on my love of fine art photography, I have been able to make progress with a number of the high-level objectives I set myself at the beginning fo the year.

I'm delighted to begin promoting my almost completed "Shades Of The Cotswolds" fine art photography book, with images from around Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and Bourton-on-the-Water.  With only the index and acknowledgements to tidy-up before the next steps of publishing and marketing, there will be plenty to do in the coming months. 

A sneak-preview draft flipbook can be viewed fro free online here:

https://art-photography.uk/preview

Just like I created for my "Two Tone Toon" book, I have created a companion online exhibition gallery for the Cotswolds book, which can be viewed for free here:

https://art-photography.uk/gallery-4

(and giving it some great social media exposure, this is currently (May-2025) one of the featured ArtPlacer galleries via their  https://discover.artplacer.com/ website)

I'm curently seeking funding and a publisher to get the "Shades Of The Cotswolds" book printed (info@art-photography.me if any interested parties are rading this blog post), but in the meantime, I may make it available for sale as an ebook first, which brings me onto the next achievement!

I have successfully transformed my original "Two Tone Toon" photography book into a five-volume ebook series, currently for sale exclusively online via Google Books.  This series has allowed me to include many more images that couldn't be squeezed into the hardback, and also with captures of Newcastle United's recent city-centre cup winner's parade (volume three).

Preview copies of these volumes can be viewed for free via my website page, which also includes direct links to Google ebooks:

https://art-photography.uk/ebook

As I've been finding new ways to craft my photographs into books, and to make available online, it has enabled the development of some new Canva skills and dabling with flipbook media.  I have learnt more about publishing generally, including workflows, ISBN registrations and submitting copies to the Biritsh Library.   

However, marketing webinar courses have pointed out that in order to achieve long-term commercial success, I must collate a meaningful email list of patrons who are eager to learn more about my photography books and projects.  With that in mind, I invite you to subscribe to my email list too, whch can be done via my website contact page:

https://art-photography.uk/contact

ArtDoc Photography Magazine has included two of my Newcastle Jesmond Dene photographs in their recent online group exhibition The Meditative Lens - Patterns Of Stillness

And finally........I've begun work on collating 2024 images for my third photography book, which will be centred around "Dundee, Arbroath, Broughty Ferry & Tayside".