Andrew Hocking Photography

I won my first ever competition, judged by the crowd, with my shot of a storm at Portreath, titled "RELENTLESS."

The composition is pretty straight forward. I used dominant trees each side to frame the image. But this shot was really all about the light

I composed this image with the fallen, moss-covered branch, snaking through a bed of bluebells towards a dominant tree trunk...

Compositionally, I was first drawn to the dominant diagonal tree. This helps to lead the eye through the scene...

One day this week, I was treated to a thin veil of mist that added some drama to my shots...

I noticed these broken clouds drifting slowly across the scene. I hung around, hopeful for some epic light...

As the sun rose behind me, it illuminated just the castle on St Michael's Mount in a reddish glow - before ascending into the clouds...

This composition almost has two contrasting focal points; the moss-covered twisted tree at the front, shed of all it's leaves; and the v

Walking back to the car after my first visit to Golitha Falls (on the River Fowey near Liskeard), I saw this brightly coloured tree in the d