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).
The first of the autumn storms meant I've been effectively marooned in Brighton today and tonight. The storm passed over last night and as the forecasts were predicting dire damage, the rail network closed down. There seems to have been nothing more than a couple of trees in various places but that's been enough for a day on either no service or just the emergency service that's almost nothing.
We got out before the storm to the delightful Sheffield Park and I've attached my postcard of the trip.
A spring walk in Hyde Park, London: sculptures, screeches of wild parakeets from the trees, people walking their dogs, and magnificent artichoke plants in the flower beds.
After a couple of days of welcome spring sunshine, it’s a wet Sunday morning in Keswick. So here’s my interpretation of Keswick’s aerial tower, that my host Mike describes as “Keswick’s answer to the Eiffel Tower”. In reality, it’s a rather local fill-in transmitter for terrestrial television plus a measly amount of 2G and 3G coverage for Keswick in the Lake District, Cumbria.
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.
