Carisbrooke Castle Canvas Print

Carisbrooke Castle stands on a high hill looking towards nearby Newport. The castle was begun in the Norman period, but is best remembered as the prison of Charles I, who was held here - despite 2 attempts to escape - before being taken to London for his execution. No such dark deeds troubled us on the day our family visited, when the afternoon sun lit the huge gatehouse that is Carisbrooke's most memorable feature.

I bought my first 'serious' camera for a trip to the UK when I was in my 20s. That trip sparked not only a love affair with photography but a love affair with the wonderful landscape and heritage of Britain. Those twin loves have inspired me over the past several decades, as I've explored Britain from Orkney to Cornwall, and most points in between. I find my greatest satisfaction in taking photographs that capture something quintessentially 'British' about my adopted home. Over the past 15 years, I've developed the www.BritainExpress.com website to share my love of England, Scotland, and Wales, and have taken well over 295,000 images of the UK. I'm sharing some of my favourites - and some of the most *British* of my image collection,...