Hello and thanks for visiting my website!

I’m Daniel, an amateur writer and photographer with a focus on regular photo-blogs. My posts intersect macro photography, the woodlands of Sussex, fungi, landscape history and literature.

I have a podcast called Unlocking Landscapes which is available on all the platforms.

All content is produced on my own time and expense, but if you want to support the annual running costs of this website please see here.

You can see my latest posts on my blog. To view my extensive photo galleries please use the menu options above.

My photos have appeared in The Guardian several times (not always credited), The Metro, Le Monde and the Evening Standard in support of London Wildlife Trust and the South Downs National Park Authority.

My story ✍️

• 1998: I created a school magazine called Go Ahead And Spark Me! featuring computer game reviews
• 1999: wrote my first short story, about monsters in an abandoned American frontier town
• 2003-2006: played bass and wrote songs our band Zan Zeiro
• 2005-2008: studied creative writing/film studies at Liverpool John Moores University
• 2006-8: wrote 200-word fan pieces for The Observer newspaper on my beloved Everton Football Club
• 2007-: recorded a lot of ambient folk-pop EPs and albums
• 2008: wrote music reviews and recorded interviews and launched film review website Atlas Film with fellow university friends
• 2010: graduated with a Film Studies MA at King’s College London
• 2011: created this website!
• 2012-2018: worked for London Wildlife Trust, also writing for local newspapers, community magazines and doing national media work on landscape and wildlife conservation
• 2013: wrote (unpaid) articles for online publications including Earthlines Review and Caught by the River
• 2014: self-published my first poetry booklet, I am living with the animals
• 2018: self-published my second poetry booklet, Sumptuous Beasts
• 2020: my blog went up a gear when I began to post once a week on fungi and began a macro photography blog
• 2021: launched my podcast Unlocking Landscapes during the pandemic lockdowns
• 2022: contributed chapter on woodlands to London in the Wild: Exploring Nature in the City
• 2023: launched FungiFriday.co.uk a seasonal mushroom photography blog
• 2025: my third poetry booklet, Fool’s Wood self-published as digital audio and a paper booklet

Thanks for taking the time to view my website.

I can be contacted by email at unlockinglandscapes@gmail.com

Last updated: December 2025