About Me

I’m David - Yep that’s me above in my fly fishing attire (Yes, I do own normal clothes too). I’m an avid fisherman and photographer living near the stunning Yorkshire Dales National Park. You can find me either on the river waving a stick around with a hook on the end, or out in the country having a walk with camera in hand. Often both with a GoPro strapped to my chest while I talk to myself like it’s perfectly normal.

Fishing is my first passion and have been out on the river since I was 8 years old. I’ll let you on a little secret - I couldn’t take hooks out of fishes mouths for years until I plucked up the courage to try it whilst spinning for sea trout in Scotland. I bet my dad breathed a huge sigh of relief that day. You can read a blog about my younger years via a blog here.

We don’t fish stillwaters any more, rivers have completely stolen our hearts. Stillwater fishing just doesn’t do it for me like it once did. We’ve done our fair shire of coarse fishing with float, and spent the odd time on stillwaters fly fishing for trout, but we eventually drifted away from it. The one exception? Scotland…. Put me in front of a freshwater loch and I’m straight back in.

Looking ahead, I’d love to progress into guiding, sharing my knowledge and love of the sport with others, and—hopefully—become an ambassador for a fly fishing company.

In the early 2000s I launched a Youtube channel and I now produce mostly fishing videos. Link to my Youtube channel is below.

In my early teens my mum gave me her camera that she stopped using, a red point and shoot film camera. I took photos on and off throughout the years. I then moved bought my first digital camera, made by Ricoh from my local camera shop. After too much use it stopped working and I bought a second one.

In my early twenties I moved up the scale and bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon 450D along with an 18-55mm kit lens. I spent time getting to know the camera, slowly adding other lenses. In 2017 I spent a good few months researching the pros and cons of owning a better, more advanced camera. I took a plunge and bought myself a Canon 5D MKIV, even though I didn’t need a professional camera. I think it was more of a mid-life decision that urged me to buy it. I now have upgraded to mirrorless, staying with Canon.

Heading outside photography and fishing gives me a place of solitude, somewhere I can go to the countryside, to breath in the fresh clean air that surrounds me. A place where I can think. A place I can get away from the ‘real world’, forgetting  all my troubles. Somewhere I can step into nature and tune into the unknown world that is changing around us every second of each day.

In the middle of 2024 I bought an ipad and have taken up digital art. And I like to dabble in watercolour. You can view my progress below.

The website name 'Daelpix Photography' comes from my father who thought the name up after I asked for ideas on what to call myself on a Wordpress site (which is now long gone). I used the name again when I created this website... The word 'dael' comes from Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The new word to replace is 'dale', meaning an open valley. 'Dael' is a synonyn to the word 'valley'.