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).
Pausing on my hike to Place Fell to remember Mike Town (M.A.T.), my departed friend and neighbour in Keswick. Seeing again - but now on my own with my memories - the Patterdale pubs, the church and the George Starkey Hut, with its inspiring roster of famous climbers as past guests: Mike mentored at least one Everest summiteer.
Patterdale so enchanted Mike when he visited as a young child that he kept coming back here to hike the fells, study the weather and to make music. There’s a modest memorial plaque under the ancient Yew tree in the churchyard but Mike’s ultimate memorials are the ppe organs he rebuilt, played and passed on for the future.
More photos: Oh little town of Patterdale... Lake District National Park
My interpretation of the Via San Giovanni in historic Saluzzo in Piemonte. This angle of view does not exist so I have painted the elements in a montage of a number my photos (so not AI).
Photographs from a walk around Arles. My photographic reactions on this day to the many inspiring shapes, textures and views among these ancient streets of the Provence town which is well-known to photographers.
View of Wast Water as a squally shower develops over the Lake District’s highest fells. Minutes later we were struck by hail and cold rain.
