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).
Fitz Park, Keswick looking fantastic in the autumn sunshine; the fells beyond are swathed in low cloud.
My view of Sheffield Park this fine Sunday just past. A couple of sights which caught my eye plus the classic views of the wonderful autumn display of this garden laid out by Capability Brown, Arthur Soames and their gardeners.
Long lens photo of the Château d’If island fortress in the Bay of Marseille. The stormy waves are at Marseille beach park, Plage Borély. The surfer is having trouble catching the waves as it’s too rough.
This is one of the groynes under Hawks Brow, part of Seaford Head.
Many visitors here, some enjoying the King Charles III England Coast Path.
Interesting light.
2682, ‘Princess’ 0-6-0 arrives at Lakeside Station. Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway
What’s not to like about a steam train on a preserved railway? Lakeside on Windermere has evolved from a 17th century coaching inn to a Victorian, then Edwardian, railway resort with the arrival of rails from Ulveston in 1869. It was (and is still) a popular interchange between the lake steamers and the railway. Passenger rail service reopened briefly after WW2 but the line was finally closed in 1965. A large part of the line and yard at Haverthwaite was built over for the A590 trunk road, severing the Lakeside branch from the BR network. Nonetheless the Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway reopened to passenger traffic in 1973 under enthusiastic private ownership.
