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).
Regency Brighton continues to benefit from investment and construction. There’s a bold new development at the Marina, which unfortunately dominates the view towards the white cliffs of the Severn Sisters. And in the westerly direction the steel column (162 m.) of the nearly-completed Brighton i360 viewing platform replaces the Victorian wrought iron of the much-loved West Pier, long since ruined first by fire and latterly by prevarication.
The Brighton Pavilion North gatehouse dates from about 1774.
Mistletoe in trees silhouetted against the pale winter sky.
This picture from North Somerset, where there is no shortage of mistletoe this winter.
Big wave from the English Channel crashes on the beach in front of the Victorian pier at Eastbourne. Unusual, because Eastbourne - the “Sunshine Capital of Britain” - is more often about the music at the bandstand, the seaside promenade and deck chairs in the sunshine on the beach.
Good harvest this year from my Tahitian lime tree. It has the most favoured sunny spot on my patio.
31 fruits! Compare with last year's meagre crop: Key Lime pie
Grey squirrel stealing sunflower seeds from my garden bird feeder pauses when he realises he is being watched.
