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.
Photos of the angry monsters in my new boots. They want to go out and hike; me too but we’ll just have to wait, this lockdown won’t last for ever.
Fledgling Blue Tit taking its first bath in my patio bird-bath. Parents not far away.
The morning after the lockdown is extended.
The petals are dropping swiftly from the cherry trees.
It’s as if all our hopes and all our dreams for this spring are dropping in to the gutter.
Whilst the iron bars of the lockdown stretch ever onward.
- Prunus covidia
- Restricted photography - creative photography challenge in the lockdown
- Lovely London
Prunus covidia - cherry trees flowering on the streets of Hammersmith and Fulham within one permitted exercise walk from my home.
Creative photography challenge in the lockdown
One walk, one prime lens, one ISO setting, as many genres as I can see. Today’s creative challenge for my one permitted daily walk.
This set of images of the lockdown in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are presented in chronological order.
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