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).
Galleny Force - Stonethwaite Beck
Langstrath Beck
A study of the power and drama of the falls of the Langstrath Beck where it meets the Stonethwaite Beck, at the top end of Borrowdale.
More photos: Galleny Force - Langstrath Beck Falls - Lake District National Park
This photo produced an emotional response when I downloaded it from the camera. I think this is because seeing another plane below us from 38,000 feet is a reassurance in the deeply unnatural experience of flying in a passenger airplane. Most of us suppress our fear of flying but an image like this cuts through conscious logic. I happened to have my DSLR out during the flight so was able to snap the view out of the aircraft window
City bikes and scooters ready to hire in Wood Lane, London W12. You hire a bike by the minute using an app, some are e-bikes. The contrast of the colourful bikes and the high rise architecture is striking and typically contemporary London. This location is between Television Centre, Westfield and Shepherds Bush District Line station, which passes over Wood Lane in the bridge in my picture.
Nothing says “End of summer” more clearly than fingers stained from picking blackberries from the hedgerows in Sussex on August Bank Holiday Saturday. We picked just enough for bramble jam for our own use and left plenty for the birds.
Lowgill Viaduct in the North Yorkshire Dales looking splendid in the evening light. Photo from the moving train en route to London Euston. The viaduct used to carry the branch line to Sedburgh, which was closed to passenger traffic in 1954 and the tracks were finally removed in 1967.
