Daniel Casson Photography

DANIEL CASSON PHOTOGRAPHY

If you meet me for the first time, and you ask me where I'm from, I will reluctantly and apprehensively say Derby, before enquiring if you've ever heard of it before or know where it is. If you have, I probably won't believe you, as I ask you what you think of the city. If you haven't, I'll give you the usual it's near Nottingham, and it's home of the Bakewell tart and DCFC and Rolls Royce... and you get the idea. Then, regardless of whether you knew Derby before or not, I'm then very likely to say a lovingly crafted but extremely withering and demeaning comment about my home town. It's the just the way it is, when you love where you come from with your whole heart, yet simultaneously it is the confine from which you have always wanted to escape.

The reason I mention all this, is because this morning I was scrolling through Insta, as one does when one should be doing other more useful and meaningful things, when I saw this breathtaking picture. So I clicked on the little tag, and it lead me to Daniel Casson's IG account, and it made me feel a million percent guilty for being so depreciating about where I come from, because my god, Derby, and the county over which it reigns supreme, good old Derbyshire and it's mighty astounding natural beauty, The Peak District,... well it turns out, they aren't so bad after all. Daniel Casson is a Sheffield native who specialises in landscape and natural photography, in particular taking the best photos you will ever see ever of the Peak District. Daniel became a full time photographer following his Criminology & Psychology degree, after his love of taking and sharing photographs on IG quickly escalated due to his sheer, mind boggling photographic talent of expertly and artfully capturing natural subject matter. He's worked with so many top class clients including Land Rover, The Times, The Telegraph, has collaborated with Instragram and Tumblr on various projects, received numerous forms of recognition for his brilliant work, and he's deservingly amassed a rather large collection of followers in the process too.

In my opinion, he is the best landscape and nature photographer I have ever seen, with his work lovingly depicting those those lush rolling green Derbyshire Dales, the intricate rock formation, the dense forestry, the sweeping views of the underlying valleys, the winding roads for miles and miles, the luminous bodies of water, the views from the peaks looking up to the sky or down across the world, the mysterious licks of fog, the entwining of blue sky and ethereal clouds. All these beautiful, natural, peaceful formations and elements, all expertly created by mother nature's hand and carefully bestowed upon the heart of Derbyshire for people to travel from far and wide to enjoy.

I didn't want to include lots of  Daniel's photographs in this post firstly because of copyright, and secondly because I don't even know how I would even begin to choose which photographs to include. They're all so stunning, I could literally give up uni and just spend the rest of my life sitting and looking through Daniel's photographs for hours upon hours, and fist pumping the air that I'm from Derbyshire, where many of the photographs were taken. They really are that good. And what's more, it's not just Derbyshire that's captured so fantastically in photographic format. Daniel's portfolio also extends to lots of other gorgeous locations in England, Wales and Scotland too. So for a comprehensive overview and snapshot of just how stunning the UK, and a reason to make you feel damn lucky to be living in this fine nation, I urge you to click the link below, take one, two, ten hours out your day, and look through Daniel's photography collection. In the mean time, I'm off to book a train ticket to Derbyshire so I can climb a hill and sing 'The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Music' in celebration of my beloved home county.

*ALL PHOTOS BELONG TO DANIEL CASSON*

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