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).
Wet Sleddale Reservoir dam is 600 m. long and 21 m. high. Wet Sleddale Reservoir contributes water to Haweswater through tunnels.
Giving AI a run with a photo of myself, starting with a likeness then stylising radically. I was running the Thames Path with fresh bread from the village baker in Barnes. Hammersmith Bridge in background.
But is it Art?
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. New life.
High summer in Margravine Cemetery, Hammersmith.
The old trees. The stones. The dust of the earth. The new growth.
Flying display at the Birds of Prey Centre at Muncaster Castle near Ravenglass in West Cumbria. These amazing birds fly with a precision and speed that is unimaginable from TV alone. Their flight is almost silent and of course deadly for their prey. Raptors are carnivorous: each display was rewarded with meat. It’s quite unnerving to be looked at directly by one of these birds of prey, ether through the viewfinder or by eye. And in this display the birds fly low, including over the heads of the audience, you feel the size and power of the predators with such a close encounter. The pair of Vultures were particularly impressive, working as a couple. And cute in thier own way; Note that Vultures are technically not birds of Prey as Vultures only eat meat that is already dead.
More photos: Birds of Prey flying at Muncaster Castle - Lake District National Park
