I installed Google Analytics on most of my client’s websites as soon as it was launched. Along with their server user stats, it helps understand who is looking at their websites, and possible explain what they are looking for. These shots are from my own results. This month people viewed in 38 countries, and 89 areas of the UK. One third of the visitors are Mac users - higher than normal but probably a reflection of the number of young designers at college or work looking at other designer’s work. Interestingly, the viewing figures now show people using Nintendo Wii, Blackberry and Apple iPhones to view sites.

Today was one of those wonderful early autumn days - bright, fresh and breezy. The leaves are starting to change colour and the swallows swirl in the sky as they prepare to migrate. In a few days they will be gone. I spend the day photographing along the backroads which take you through the lesser known valleys and hills of the Yorkshire Dales. I will use these photographs on client’s websites and also on a lproject that I have been working on for 2009.

7am on an autumn morning and the sunlight breaks through the mist is floats abover the River Wharfe. Dewdrops hang from cobwebs like diamonds catching and refracting the sunlight. Only a single fisherman setting up his rod disturbs the silence. I saw two Kingfisher here last week but they fail to make an appearance.

A sudden change of weather and a burst of sunshine brings the last of the dragonfly and butterfly out, including this Southern Hawker (top).

Arriving an hour early for a 9am meeting in South Yorkshire, meant I could have a walk around the Yorkshire Sculpture Park this morning. This is one of my favourite places - the grounds are full of sheep wandering in and out of Henry Moore’s finest sculptures.

This year’s Shakespeare tour has barely finished and my thoughts have turned to 2009 and the British Shakespeare Company’s tour of Norway and the UK. These graphics will be refined over the next few weeks before going to print early in the new year.

It should be the peak of summer but several days of heavy rainfall have left rivers overflowing and fields flooded. But these changeable type of days can create the most dramatic photos.

I have just spent 3 days at Arundel Castle on the south coast, photographing Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the British Shakespeare Company. As the light changes from dusk to complete darkness, I photographed from a distance, out of sight of the audience and without the use of flashlight. The actors are absolutely brilliant, as it’s a privilege to be involved.

I am very conscious that this blog that was supposed to be about design has become a photography blog. I have been working on a number of literature projects that I cannot display here. Anyway to show that I do actually still design things, here is a theatre programme that has just gone off to print (above), and a small leaflet for Olivers lighting Company, to be displayed in local shop and pub leaflet dispensers.

It’s supposed to be the height of summer, but it’s rained for most of the week. However friday see a change and I escape for a couple of hours into local fields. Top photo is a little Skipper - they are about 15mm in length, and have 4 wings. Female orange tip butterfly is next, but it’s only the male that has orange on it. Then redchaser and finally a Peacock butterfly.