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).
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.
Wandering around Keswick beach on Derwent Water and choosing to shoot pictures mostly towards the sun, giving quite different views to the Box Brownie or Kodak method, ie “Keep the sun behind you”.
More photos: Contre Jour - Keswick Beach - Lake District National Park
Six views of the Troposphere from the Stratosphere
Looking at the Biosphere from above: the thin and fragile layer where we can live.
What is solid and what is cloud?
Who are we and do we matter?
The Kármán line is where “space” starts
The dramatic glass and framework of Brighton’s Victorian railway station highlighted in the November sunshine and the blue sky beyond. It’s a dramatic welcome to Brighton, the first thing you see when you alight the train.
The station is the town’s gateway to the North, the rails continuing the lines of the station architecture and guiding the eye towards the line to London. The graceful curved roof spanning the platforms was completed in 1880 and last refurbished in 2000.
