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).
Plus Belle la Vie is the peak-time French television soap opera about life in Marseille. The cast and crew of PBLV can often be seen filming video in and around Marseille. Nonetheless, storylines in PBLV have about as much to do with the lives of actual Marseillais as those of the UK’s Eastenders or Coronation Street do with their corresponding real-life locations.
Eyeballed at morning coffee today by the female of the pair of blue tits who frequent my garden.
As with humans, portraits of animals are best given not taken. It's a treat and a privilege to exchange glances with a wild animal like this.
Tits pair for life, this pair have been around me here for several years now.
Green finches in the bird bath in my garden. Social birds but also quite competitive. Tempting to impute human characteristics to their little faces...
My treatment of a photo of biker Jon on his BMW motorbike in London. The original was his phone photo dating from 2011, which initially didn't look all that promising. Basically Photoshop work with quite a lot of manual intervention.
Dawn view from over Falmouth Bay and featuring the deck cargo ship Black Marlin at anchor just East of Lizard Point. A fine view for breakfast of our last day The ship is 218m length and registered in Curacao. Gardens on the south coast of Cornwall benefit from the warmth of the Gulf Stream... as well as plenty of moisture from clouds arriving from over the Atlantic Ocean.
