#CheckOutThatView Archive

Most of the views I publish for #CheckOutThatView are calm, pretty and serene views showing natural beauty, such as beaches and rolling hills. Or sometimes shots from great height, showing a large section of a town or city. This week I thought …

Last Monday, I had a case of cabin fever and just felt like I needed to escape and get out of Gloucestershire for a few days. I packed up an overnight bag for me and my three daughters and we set off …

This photo is a panoramic sweep of the view from just one window on The London Eye. There is a little bit of reflection, but this is unavoidable when taking photographs from inside a glass capsule! We took this yesterday, so the …

I thought I’d share something a little bit different for this weeks #CheckOutThatView photo. As much as I’d love to say I’m in a hot country, swimming with sharks and taking photos from an underwater camera, I wasn’t. I do still think …

The weather might have been dismal, cold and blowing a gale. We might have got there so late on a Sunday afternoon that the fun park had closed and there was not much left to do. I may have been tired and …

Believe it or not, I have not actually used any editing software or applied any filters to turn this photo to Black and White. Nor did I use my camera in manual mode. I simply used the auto setting on my DSLR …

For this week’s #CheckOutThatView I am going to share a photo I took at the top of Adrenaline Quarry, shortly before myself, my husband and our daughter (then 6 year’s old) jumped off the cliff down the zip line. This was in …

I recently stayed at the gorgeous five star Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London, with my mum for her birthday. I’ve stayed there before as it plays host to the prestigious MAD Blog Awards every year, but this time we were lucky …

This is the beautiful Italian village of Peschiera Del Garda on the Southern tip of Lake Garda. This photo was taken in September 2014 from a restaurant on the water, in the glorious sunshine. I was thrilled last week to see so …

This is a typically British countryside scene of the Cotswold’s rolling hills, as taken from The Cotswold Way National Trail in the summer of 2014. I walked the 104 miles as part of a team, #EmmasArmy against Cancer, whom collectively raised over …