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).
Christmas cake made for us by Terry. Starting five weeks before Christmas, he’s built it up from basic ingredients, baking the cake, feeding it brandy, covering it with home-made marzipan and then royal icing. Now it’s with our tree and ready for Christmas Eve, this afternoon. Merry Christmas everyone.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2018
Mother Time-Keeper, the Grim Reaper and the dawn Cockerel, along with numerous smaller paper lanterns signifying time and various other pagan symbols, some possibly commemorating individuals who have died recently, parade through the lanes of Brighton celebrating the end of the old astronomical year (the grim reaper) and the dawn of the new (the cockerel), on their way to being burnt in a communal bonfire on the beach.
Read more: Brighton: Burning the Clocks - Winter Solstice 2017
Wet day so photos indoors. You don’t get much more indoors than a box garage several floors underground.
Sunday rowday on the Thames between Putney and Hammersmith. A squad of two rowing eights, the oarsmen wearing Oxford University kit. I prefer light blue but they're rowing in style and making good speed back to the boathouse on an ebbing tide.
Trying to represent in a photo that peculiar autumn pleasure of kicking through dry leaves. These leaves are from the London plane trees crowning the Thames embankment at Bishops Park since its opening in 1893.
And two cute vagabonds, grey squirrels looking cute and cadging for food.
Two pictures of Derwent Water between this week’s storms. The level of the water is high enough to submerge the wooden piers and, despite the ray of sunshine, there’s another shower driving across the water from the “Jaws of Borrowdale”. These are images in natural colour, ie as the image comes out of the camera, but the colour is subtle.
