John was involved in photography for nearly 30 years,ever since obtaining his first Canon A-1 SLR. More recently, John's work was done with a Nikon D300 DSLR and a variety of lenses. His images have been published by the BBC, newspapers such as the Guardian and have been used by various non-commercial to commercial concerns - from the National Museum of Wales to Gordon's Gin! The natural world -and especially wild weather here in Mid-Wales - were his specialities.
In 2007, John launched his unique online image-library, featuring the weather and landscapes of Mid-Wales. Set in and around the beautiful Dyfi Valley, the collection features the area's mountains, rivers and coastline in all their moods, from benign to furious, as the seasons and weather change.
The images are available for sale in electronic format for multimedia use and also as prints. For the image-library, which users will obviously want to view on a PC rather than a mobile, please follow the link below:
https://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/gallery/
In the late 1990s, John started what turned out to be a remarkably popular image-rich blog dedicated to thunderstorms, blizzards, floods and other severe weather in Wales. The blog documented notable weather-events (with images), as and when they occurred. In more recent years the focus was been on the more extreme events which may vary from widespread to nonexistent in any given season. Thus, in crazily-stormy early 2014, there were several pages added; so far in 2019, nothing. The blog has attracted attention from people worldwide (often with an original Welsh connection) and the media. To access John's severe weather blog, again photo-centric so not set up for mobile users, please follow the link below:
https://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/
Since 2010, John was also involved with Skeptical Science, motto: "getting skeptical about global warming skepticism". Here John wrote periodic blog-posts concerning climate science and the politics that surround it. This work was done as a member of an international, all-volunteer team. The site has won much acclaim (and an award or two) for its contribution to climate change communication. John was proud to be part of it.