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).
Fox keeping look-out in Brompton Cemetery in West London. He's in a Royal Park so he knows he's fairly safe, despite all the hubbub of the city going on around him, so he let me get quite close and just looked me over then casually sauntered away. A treat to enjoy an encounter with such a fine animal, especially in the city!
Dawn in the Saône valley at Fleurie in the Beaujolais region. The sun rising over Jura mountains and the first mists of autumn in the valley of the river Saône. Usually this would be the time to harvest the grapes but the 2016 vintage is delayed due to hailstorms earlier in the year: Fleurie 2016
Dawn sunshine colouring the Grande Tête de l'Obiou (2790 m.) in the Dévoluy Massif, seen here from Boustique, a little hamlet above Corps. The dramatic rocky peak of L'Obiou is a prominent landmark on the Route Napoléon, a road much favoured by bikers for its sweeping curves and challenging climbs and descents.
Seen over the garden wall: sunflowers and an empty but used wine glass on a blue gingham tablecloth on a table surrounded by garden chairs. The evidence of a good time last night. One thinks of the host finishing a bottle alone in the cool late at night after the two friends had gone home...
Arnside is famous for its sunsets over the estuary of the River Kent as it meets the sea at over Morecombe Bay. Here's a view of the dawn upstream of a dawn railway train on the viaduct crossing the River Kent, Lakeland fells and Pennines in the background, birds feasting on the exposed mud below.
Here's my postcard from a previous hiking visit to Arnside.
