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).
A sunny interval while I was passing by Windermere in the Lake District. View towards Loughrigg Fell and Langdale Fell in the distance.
Hiking the fantastic fells in Cumbria gives so many stunning views and it’s great to get up there but here’s a reminder that this area’s about the lakes too. The clue’s in the name... Lake District National Park.
Canon (32 pounder) mounted horizontally on the roof of Seaford’s Martello Tower on the English Channel coast in Sussex; the barrel is currently a landing place for birds but the tower and canon were intended to defend against a beach landing or attack. Wise defence and the canon was never fired in action. The tower was one of 103, all built in the first half of the nineteen century to deter a French invasion during the Napoleonic wars.
Seaford Head (69 m.) is one of the Seven Sisters, a series of chalk cliffs along the Sussex Coast.
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.
