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).
Wisteria blooming this afternoon in my garden in Hammersmith, London W14.
Flowers cascading over the little roof and roaming shoots looking to invade anywhere they land!
Partial solar eclipse seen from Keswick, Cumbria. At least we saw something through the clouds. The light went and there was some rain but the birds kept singing.
Great spotted woodpecker enjoying breakfast on my friend's garden feeder, just outside Keswick, Cumbria.
Frogs enjoying the spring sunshine in Terry's garden pond in Preston Park, Brighton
