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).
Robin in my garden in Hammersmith. Clearly knew I was uncovering food and readily dived to eat worms.
So it pays to be brave and tolerate humans, if you're a robin..
Key Lime pie made by Terry (thanks Terry) with the lime grown by the tree on my patio in West London. We first came across Key Lime pie in Key West, it's a classic American dessert made from condensed milk, eggs and a biscuit base. No cream, so relatively healthy.
Looking after a Tahitian Lime tree in London is so far no more problematic than looking after my apple trees. There are urban bees so pollination occurs naturally and the cold weather hasn't damaged the tree so far but the tree is in a spot protected from the wind and favoured by the sun.
View of Tower Bridge and "The Shard" building from Bermondsey Wall, London
Circus artists rehearsing for tonight’s show around the Vieux Port in Marseille, part of La Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque. As well as trapeze artistes and jugglers, there looks to be going to be a high wire cyclist performing high above the port end of the Canebière. And there are searchlights set up to illuminate a high wire stretched between cranes on either side of the port. Although there will be a thin crescent moon and a Mistral to keep the skies clear, unfortunately it’s likely to be a cold night both for the performers and the crowds.
Footnote: the event was cancelled due to the weather
Marseille from the main railway station: Gare St. Charles. The Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde in the far distance, crowned by the golden statue of the Virgin Mary by Lequesne. Usually this view is against the strong sunlight which so dominates and overwhelms the traveller on arrival from the north that the sunshine and blue Mediterranean sky becomes the view. The sky today is loaded with rain clouds which the strong and clear Mediterranean light somehow manages to penetrate, revealing the architecture and reminding how Marseille is a fascinating mixture of a Provence village and a modern French town.
