Alfie in the Air Shop
Island sticks III -Artist & Photographer: Callum O'connellThis picture was taken on a cold, dramatic evening on the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight scooter rally 2025
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellNeedles lighthouse and getting up close to it is amazing, its much bigger than you would expect at 31 meters.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellVintage car we came across whilst crossing the Namib desert, actually a really nice place to get a great cake!
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellCovid London St Pauls | This was a really weird time around London, Covid had hit, the City of London was dead.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis is one of my favourite pictures, a long exposure on a really calm morning in Brighton, this was taken around 5am.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was an early morning around Culver, from ground level I was just surrounded by sea fog, there was just a few pockets where I could launch my drone and get above it, I could see a beautiful sunrise with the sun coming up and illuminating all the land on Culver down.
Me and a friend Steve went out on his boat for a trip looking for Solent dolphins.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellBembridge is a one of the nicest towns on the Island, here you can see for miles! Bembridge lifeboat station, Culver down, right the way to Ryde church if you look really hard.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellI was photographing a beautiful yacht, it was going through very shallow waters, from above you could see all the different shades of greens as the depth got deeper.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellSossusvlei is one of my favourite places in Namibia, the dunes are incredible, incredible textures and colours.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellSossusvlei amazing views every direction you turn, these spring bok walking across the dunes made for a great sight.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was an early morning in Etosha National Park, we were up before the sunrise to be there nice and early, it was a lovely warm morning, where we spotted this dazzle of zebras, Some zoologists think zebras use their stripes as camouflage when they're together in a big group to confuse predators - by making it harder to pick out individual zebras.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis must of been one of the most still days ive ever seen at Bembridge lifeboat station.
Photograph of River Medina wreck | Isle of Wight
This is my favourite wreck on the Isle of Wight. This boat is located in the River Medina along the cycle path.
Alum bay with the multicolour sand is a lovely beach, looking towards the famous Needles lighthouse.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was a trip down to Woodside bay, very tucked away from the main road, me and a friend went down there really early morning to capture the sunrise, I found this boat floating in the water, which made for a nice shot, also really nice there is Portsmouth in the far distance.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis is St Catherine's Oratory, built around the 1300s, its a medieval lighthouse, now has been replace by a modern lower down one, the area is prone to fog, so this one was unable to be seen when its foggy. I was lucky enough to catch the sun through the window. Locally this structure is named the pepper pot, and its 35 ft tall.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was a very early start, to capture the moon coming down by the Needles lighthouse, there was quite a few of us on Alum beach all wanting to capture this moment, there is only a couple times a year, this year the weather was playing ball.
These Seaview yacht club paddle boarders lined up perfectly here for me to photograph them all having fun on a sunny morning.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellChoppy Needles lighthouse - This was a scary outing, crazy waves crashing around, defo pushed the drone to the limits for this photo, my opinion 100% worth it.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellI love Seaview in the Summer, its full of holiday people all having fun. Here is a drone photo I took on a Saturday afternoon end of July 2023.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellNewquay is one of the best surfing spots in the country, this is one of my favourite photos, lots of surfers in the water and the waves just breaking perfectly.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellI had spotted this boat in Bembridge Harbour a couple of times, I really wanted a picture of it but I wanted the right and appropriate time to photograph it, with the name snowman, I wanted it surrounded by all white, so I waited until it was a really foggy morning and headed there.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellNewtown creek is a really special place, I love getting my drone out and just exploring the area looking for patterns and what ever I can find, I usually just drop the anchor on the boat just on the outskirts of the creek and enjoy the quietness, whilst exploring the bits of the creek you can't see yourself.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was taken on a nice sunrise down on the beach of St helens, it's a really arty photo with beautiful colours.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellVentnor is located at the south of the island, it has a beautiful beach, and lots of places to walk, here is a photo of an early morning trip there to catch the light on the seafront.
Watching the moon rise behind the St Helens Isle of Wight fort from Seagrove.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis photo was taken mid day in Namibia, the temperature was about 40 degrees, the humidity was brutal, we were following a few giraffe in the salt pan, this was one of my favourites.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis photo was taken mid day in Namibia, the temperature was about 40 degrees, the humidity was brutal, we were following a few giraffe in the salt pan, this was one of my favourites.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellSeaview is a beautiful spot, in the right light, and water depth you can get amazing clear water. This was taken in the morning, using my drone at around 100 meters high.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThe fort walk is a yearly event on the Isle of Wight, a few times a year the tides go so low its possible to walk out to the St helens fort. Be quick though, or you will be swimming back.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis photo was taken down on the beach, early morning looking towards Portsmouth.
Isle of Wight beach, Needles lighthouse sunset
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connell
Here is a super moody picture, it's the yellow fin trawler, been sitting there for over 25 years. This shot was taken at night. I used a drone to light up the wreck.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis picture was taken in Etosha national park, we were approx 20 meters away, even though I was inside a truck I was still very scared, its very intimidating when a lion looks you right in the eyes.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis was my first evening at the lodge, and we were blessed to see 2 white rhinos, at first they were a few hundred meters away, then they came closer to us, and came right up to the truck, I touched one on the head from the truck, absolutely incredible experience, after they calmed down and the guide felt it was safe, we were able to leave the truck and get some lower down photos. Best place to watch the sunset from.
Photographer: Callum O'connellCame across this battered old American pick up, I thought it made for a nice picture, this was found in the Namib desert.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellWalvis Bay is home to over half of the worlds flamingos, its amazing watching them.
Photographer: Callum O'connellIsle of Wight sailor This photo was taken whilst I was on the wightlink ferry, it was rainy, windy and horrid.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis is one of my favourite pictures from my Namibia trip, taken in Walvis Bay.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellEtosha national park is an incredible place, this tree caught my attention.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThis photo was taken at the Brambles bank cricket match held in the solent
Photographer: Callum O'connellThis photo was taken on the Isle of Wight, near Seaview, the shell just caught my eye.
Artist and Photographer: Callum O'connellThe village of Whippingham, and St Mildred's Church are best known for their connections with Queen Victoria.
Photographer: Callum O'connellA beautiful morning I sent my drone out flying around Bembridge harbour to capture this perfect reflection on the still water.
Photographer: Callum O'connellA beautiful evening at freshwater bay, I love exploring this area, id like to explore the caves this summer.
Artist - Photographer Callum O'connellI spent a night in Newhaven and photograph the lighthouse the next day when the storm really got going, it was fantastic.
Photographer: Callum O'connellThis picture was taking using my drone, St Catherines lighthouse was built to replace to older medieval lighthouse on the hill.
Photographer: Callum O'connellThe Waverley the last seagoing paddle steamer! it came to the island for a few weeks in September, it travels around the UK.