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).
Up in a plane gets me thinking about the infinite. The colours of sunset accentuate this mood. Here are four real views from my most recent evening flight. Images made with a lens.
A family of Provence donkeys in a field in the Alpes-de-Haut-Provence in the week before Palm Sunday. That's a Jack, a Jenny and two foals. The âne de Provence is a recognised breed, also known as « âne des Croisés » or « âne des Saintes »; it is characterised by its grey hair and dorsal strip known as the Cross of St. Andrew. The ones I have met have been friendly and intelligent. They're now fairly rare with fewer than a thousand currently registered.
Donkey Sunday means Palm Sunday, celebrating when Jesus rode in to Jerusalem on a donkey to fulfil the prophecy of Zechariah.
March blizzard in Keswick, Cumbria. The whiteout merges the snow on the ground, the flakes in the air and the clouds.
Boat on the beach at Seaford, Sussex. A boat should be waterproof but maybe not like this.
The sun powers our world: almost all of our energy comes from it, yet it is rare to see it as it is. This morning’s mist diffused the direct view, but anyhow for maximum caution I set this image up using the rear screen on my DSLR. There seem to be two sunspots which I think are real, not optical artefacts.
Why is there colour? Why is one face brighter than the other? I think both are due to the effects of the mist.
