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).
A bit of planting, installing some protection from the wonderful birds, and a lot more clearing and hedge maintenance, revealing the folly and some sculpture. There’s been a bit of rain but not enough to refill anything, water butt or reservoirs. My photo essay on the past couple of weeks in my cloud forest garden in Keswick.
Northern Rock (2-6-2) steaming down the line from Dalegarth station on The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. A couple of passengers, with a very impressively stocked cake-stand, were enjoying the ride in “Ruth”, one of the Pullman coaches.
Thanks to the engine driver for the steam show.
Striking view of recent snow on High Street (828 m.) and Bannerdale, seen from Penrudduck.
Up in a plane gets me thinking about the infinite. The colours of sunset accentuate this mood. Here are four real views from my most recent evening flight. Images made with a lens.
A family of Provence donkeys in a field in the Alpes-de-Haut-Provence in the week before Palm Sunday. That's a Jack, a Jenny and two foals. The âne de Provence is a recognised breed, also known as « âne des Croisés » or « âne des Saintes »; it is characterised by its grey hair and dorsal strip known as the Cross of St. Andrew. The ones I have met have been friendly and intelligent. They're now fairly rare with fewer than a thousand currently registered.
Donkey Sunday means Palm Sunday, celebrating when Jesus rode in to Jerusalem on a donkey to fulfil the prophecy of Zechariah.
