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).
Wind surfers enjoying the Mistral and surf at Pointe Rouge, Marseille
faces blurred deliberately
Eastbourne delighted us yesterday morning as much as ever. The municipal gardens were putting on a good display of colour whilst the work to restore the pier is nearing completion and there’s a set of market stalls along the sea front. Frustrating to see some tasty motorbikes there - especially having enjoyed the MotoGP from Jerez (Spain) on the television the previous day - but driving back to Brighton in Terry’s car it was obvious how frustrating it has become to ride a sports motorbike in the south-east of England.
Satellite dishes still in the backyard of BBC Television Centre in Woods Lane, Shepherds Bush, West London.
A geeky view that has become nostalgic as TVC has now been handed over to developers; the cranes and diggers have moved in to much of the rest of the site.
