Photography
My photography
I use photography to show something about where I’ve been or people whom I’ve met. As well as trying to see the beauty in a scene or situation, I’m also trying to convey ideas and feelings. My photography is about me and what I do, who I meet and where I go. All my photography tries to be contemporary and creative. I’m resistant to being fitted in to a taxonomy by categorisation such as “travel” or “conceptual” or “nature”. All image-making is political simply by the act of selection and hence exclusion but I am not campaigning for any particular point of view, except to try to see the positives and to live life to the full.
I use 645, 35mm and DX formats plus a handy little digital compact that shoots RAW files. I’ve experimented with non-lens photography - do ask!
I first worked in a monochrome/silver wet darkroom at age 7, helping my Father with scientific prints; I’ve used colour negative materials since age 21 and digital since 2005. I use Photoshop (Adobe) and Photopaint (Corel).
Nothing visual says “tropical” more directly than flowering trees. These are a few from St. Gilles les Bains, on the east of the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion. And of course some tropical palm trees.
The Greta is a formidable river as it enters its gorge upstream from Keswick. The K2T Keswick Railway Footpath follows the river downstream from Threlkeld. This is the view from Low Pearson’s Bridge with meltwater and a day’s rain fuelling the flow.
More than a few years since I first walked this route; now the Greta is a neighbour and I cross it and enjoy the varying moods of the river when I’m walking to the supermarket in Keswick.
- The Bridges of the River Greta from Threlkeld to Keswick
- Rapids of the River Greta
- River power
- Greta Gorge (2011)
Street photography is almost an integral part of the Brighton Lanes experience: anyone can be prey to camera groups on the prowl most weekends. If you can’t beat them, join them! Here are a few street snaps from the first Saturday of 2026.
Always a pleasure to walk along Seaford beach front in fine weather. The traditional beach huts have been photographed many times. My photo this time is about textures as well as colours.
The gardens of Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, the seaside pleasure palace of King George IV (reigned 1820-30), which was finished by architect John Nash; the Pavilion was later enjoyed by his successors William IV, then Queen Victoria.
