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).
More from my garden in Keswick. Not a cloud in sight and the rainwater barrels are getting low.
Menton Old Town with fresh paint, ready for the new season. The classic view from the bay to the east of the old town towards the Plage des Sablettes, view made famous by the paintings and aquarelles of Ernest Louis Lessieux (1848 - 1925).
An Eight and a couple of coxless Fours rowing home on the Thames at Hammersmith Reach. Two views contrasting the solitude and focus of the boat crew on the water then the return to urban life.
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.
