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 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).
My photo gallery of Koi carp ornamental fish in a feeeding frenzy
Swiss, Italian and French Alps: my photos of mountains, glaciers and waterfalls in the first fresh days of summer
The Grand Canyon of the Verdon, Provence - my spring photo hike along the Sentier Blanc-Martel
The Big Beasts of Richmond Park - my midwinter photo safari
Le Bol d'Or 2015 - my photo gallery of the Bol d'Or 2015 motorbike racing festival - Burning Man for bikers
Quartier des Créatives - my photo gallery of night photos of Marseille
“I am here, I'm alive, I'm a conscious being in the urban cage”- my photo gallery of glorious urban flowers in Marseille 
The Kingdom of Black and White: my photo gallery of the volcanoes of the Auvergne under snow
Entropy: my photo gallery of fishing boats in Brighton Marina at a dawn just after Christmas.
Gallery of my photos of motorbikes parked overnight at our club’s annual general meeting.
The urban jungle, a confusing checkerboard construction of squares that aren’t, false perspectives and humans. What is real and what is just in our minds?
My contribution to this month’s RPS Contemporary Group’s topic: “The Real and The Unreal”, with fond memories of the graphic art of M.C. Escher and the paintings of L.S. Lowry.
This is a single natural image.
Architecture of 245 Hammersmith Road, W6 by Sheppard Robson.
The lighthouse at Ponta do Pargo, Madeira
32°48’51.1”N 17°15’43.7”W
Sub-tropical flowers facing the Atlantic blooming in January - maybe a Mapplethorpe moment for me!
Skateboarders, riders and freerunners make disciplined mayhem together in the graffiti galleries of the concrete undercroft of the Southbank Centre. Renowned as “London’s premier skatepark”, it’s the antidote to the highbrow culture of the South Bank Centre just above.
- Super Sunday - Race Horse Company
- La Soirée
- Street art, Marseille 6ième arrondissement
- Brighton street art
- Concrete Circus - Channel 4
Crawley Town Hall (opened 1964) has twice been refused a listing.
Photos from a walk around Crawley in Sussex.
