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).
Sun setting and the shadow creeping up the side of the ex London Weekend Television building, Kent House, on the South Bank of the Thames. It’s sad to see scaffolding creeping up the sides; the windows aren’t out yet but daylight is showing through the technical areas that used to fill the lower floors.
Canary Wharf, London's financial district, glimpsed from a moving train arriving in to London Bridge mainline station
This is London: chaotic, creative, historic, national capital, financial powerhouse... Omicron hotspot.
Close to the Edge: Beachy Head (165 m.) and lighthouse in the mist - South Downs National Park.
Dramatic light and clouds in between the rain showers and drizzle on Boxing Day in Brighton this year.
View of Derwent Water and Keswick from the summit of Latrigg (368 m.). I don't know personally the picnickers enjoying the view but it looks to be a family get-together on the Sunday before Christmas. Note the toddler in red.
