Our expertise
Internet services
Take a look at our websites to see the elements we have expertise in - not just creating the sites themselves, but also the finishing touches to make it easy for search engines to find the site and users to navigate around it. Plus mapping, adverts, supporting blogs and so on.
I can also incorporate website protection using Spam blocker (I won an innovation award for this). I developed this free piece of code for anyone to use who has the expertise (see my tutorial on our Cheshire Cycleway website).
Photography
Photography by Alec has been published on websites, in e-zines, and magazines, newspapers and books in the UK and abroad, over the past 20 years. Additionally, an exhibition of his prints toured Cheshire.
Subjects include:
Plants and products; gardens, gardeners and gardening; garden centres, nurseries and flower shows (e.g. RHS Chelsea, Hampton Court, Tatton); gardening as a hobby and for business, in the UK and abroad.
Outdoor leisure (cycling, walking, camping) in the UK and abroad.
Landscapes of the UK and abroad.
Writing
Over the years we've been commissioned by publishers of gardening, outdoor leisure and other magazine titles to write numerous articles, and around 900 have been published, often as photo-and-word packages. Additionally we have written a book (Guide to the Cheshire Cycleway - now updated online) and have written publicity material for various companies.
Where our gardening articles and photos have been published:
Active Life
Amateur Gardening
Aquarist & Pondkeeper
Birdwatching
Birds (RSPB members' magazine)
British Gardening On-line
Creative Homecrafts
The English Garden
Fishkeeping Answers
The Garden
The Gardener
Garden Answers
Garden Calendar
Gardening365.com
Garden Ideas
Gardening Made Easy
Gardening Talk
Green Magazine
Homes & Ideas
Homes & Gardens
Horticulture Week
Individual Homes
Kitchen Garden
Koi Carp
Koi, Ponds & Gardens
The Lady
Mrs Beeton Traditional Housekeeping Today
My Garden
Perfect Home
Practical Fishkeeping
Professional Interiors
Professional Landscaper & Groundsman
Selfbuild
Skylines
Staffordshire County Magazine
Water Gardener
Water Gardening
Water Gardening for Beginners
Which Tool
Your Garden
Where our outdoor leisure articles and photos have been published:
Antiques Lifestyle (heritage walks)
Camping & Walking
Camping & Caravanning
Camping
Country Walking
Cycle Touring & Campaigning (Cyclists' Touring Club members' magazine)
Cycling Today
Daily Mail Ski Show Magazine
Evergreen
Guiding (winning us an Outdoor Writers' Guild award for an article on outdoor clothing)
Horse
Horse & Rider
Motor Caravan World
Motorcaravan & Motorhome Monthly (MMM)
On Your Bike
Out & About (part-work)
Outdoor Trade & Industry
Outdoor Action
Skylines (in-flight magazine of British Regional Airlines/British Airways)
Rambler
The Rambler
Trail Walker
Walking Abroad
Where other articles and photos have been published:
Manx Tails (in-flight magazine)
Sport & Leisure
Stock
The Big Issue/Midlands
This England
Young People Now
