Alison S Taylor ARPS

I love being outdoors and when I gave up international lacrosse and other sporting activities I continued to take walking holidays and to spend as much time as possible in the fabulous British countryside.

I have always enjoyed photography although it took the acquisition of a DSLR for my interest to flourish. My hobby started with me merrily snapping as I walked in the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales or on the coast, but as time passed I began to spend more time considering and planning my photographs.

I like to decide what techniques can be used to produce the required result and have developed a deeper interest in the use of textures, light and long exposures. I've also learnt that one can't be considered to be a proper landscape photographer without getting up in the middle of the night to be poised for action at sunrise. The thrill of watching how the light and landscape interact and change easily outweigh the trauma of getting up at 3.30am.

Almost all my photographs are taken in the north of England and are based around fells, waterfalls and the sea. Its where I'm happiest and the variety of the scenery is endless.  

I am passionate about the sea and whenever possible I drive to the coast and stand on the foreshore looking out to sea admiring the waves and looking for patterns in the sand.

Talk Topics (NOT zoom from April 2023):

Each talk lasts about 45 minutes and there are usually two selected for an evening presentation.

  1. Wellies Required: Coastal Photography (half or full evening)

  2. The North East Coast

  3. The Yorkshire Coast

  4. A foreign Land to me: Yorkshire

  5. Yorkshire Dales

  6. #NotJustLakes - Lake District

  7. Scotland and the Outer Hebrides

  8. It isn’t about the colour (Monochrome presentation - half or full evening)

  9. Project photography

Exhibitions and Awards

  • Licentiate Royal Photographic Society 2018

  • Associate Royal Photographic Society 2020

  • Photos published in Outdoor Photography Magazine

  • Photos and articles in On Landscape Magazine

  • Article in Friends of York Museum magazine

    Exhibitions:

  • York District Hospital

  • Foss Park Hospital, York

  • Rheged (Cumbria)

  • RPS Landscape Exhibition 2023

  • Blossom Street Gallery, York

  • Connected Exhibitions at Patchings Art Centre

  • Holgate Gallery, York

  • Blossom Street Cinema

  • Tennants Auctioneers, Leyburn