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).
Comic Relief 2013 was one of the last shows to be made and transmitted live from the BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, London W12. Here's my picture of the increasingly rare sight of fans queueing for tickets to the live show from the BBC studios. Once a common sight but now increasingly rare as Television Centre winds down its productions prior to its redevelopment by a property company from April 2013.
The live show featured appearances from singer Jessie J, comedian Peter Kay, boy band One Direction, Hollywood star Hugh Grant and veteran comedian Ronnie Corbett. Comic Relief 2013 raised a record £74.3 million for charities.
Not a sunrise but a winter Moonrise over Marseille, Provence, at the time of the sunset on the other side of the sky.
Sunny but cool weather, with a light Mistral wind, the Provence dust adds gives the lilac colour to the setting sun over the city blocks.
My photo of the icy Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Bell's Lane swing bridge in Maghull, Lancashire.
There's a fine Japanese Garden in the park between the BBC Television Centre and the White City estate. It is the remains of the Japan-British exhibition of 1910. There's a rock turtle, model volcanoes and a tranquil pond, home to a small number of well-fed ducks.
Despite being surrounded by the BBC's satellite dish farm, the outer spiral arm of the Television Centre star city, and the housing estate, it remains a haven, one of my favourite places for a stress-busting lunchtime walk, even in winter.
Seasonal snow in West London looking very pretty for my lunch-time walk in the blizzard.
