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).
This is autumn in the city: a Rowan tree laden with berries on the street on a bright autumn morning in Fulham, the strong Westerly breeze blowing away the clouds and heralding the return of the many planes tracking down over London to land at Heathrow airport. Apart from the view of the tree on the street outside the window, the architecture of those flats is definitely not inspirational but count on spending more than a quarter of a million pounds if you want to try to buy one. Note: Rowan berries are poisonous.
Two fisherman on the beach below Ovingdean Cliff in Sussex looking at Brighton's i360 “vertical pier” and the first of the new blocks at Brighton Marina.
Eight oarsmen rowing upstream at speed on the River Thames at Hammersmith Reach in West London, just down river from Hammersmith Bridge. Several rowers are wearing kit identified as Imperial College, London. The tide is still coming in but this is less than an hour before High Water. An eight at full speed is a wonderful sight, the oars pulling as one, the sleek boat flitting over the water, the swoosh sound of the oars slicing in to the water surmounted by the Cox calling the stroke.
A flock of Canada geese noisily enjoying the autumn morning sunshine at Sheffield Park garden in Sussex. We haven't seen geese here before, at least not such a large flock, and whilst they look attractive on the lakes laid out by Capability Brown, they're also displacing the elegant swans and those accomplished scavengers, the local mallard ducks. The fragrant aromas from the woodlands surrounding the lakes indicating a cool night with a bit of dew are an indication of autumn just as much as the trees' gently changing colours.
Brighton's new sea front attraction, the i360 "Vertical pier". The viewing pod rises slowly to the top of the 162 m. pole for views of the English Channel, the city of Brighton and the South Downs. It's currently an up-and-down ride, with very little time at the top of the pole to enjoy the offerings of the on-board champagne bar.
