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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. Gallery of my photos of a vision of a post-apocalyptic dystopia from the lac de Castillon of the river Verdon in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Gallery of my photos of Marseille on the 1st September 2014, la rentrée scolaire, the day the French return to work after the summer holidays.

Sheffield Park’s autumn display

Published: 20 October 2018 Sheffield Park’s famous autumn display is popular with ducks, Old Ducks and photographers.

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Geometric dissonances

Published: 14 October 2018 Worrying geometric dissonances at Regents University, London, the venue for the RPS Contemporary Group AGM

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Empty space

Published: 13 October 2018 This is the empty space which used to be the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The site has been cleared but the development has halted, apparently due to planning challenges and commercial uncertainty. So no longer the big shows nor the music performances. I remember hearing here in 1980 Roger Waters’ lyrics for The Wall: “What shall we use to fill the empty spaces”; maybe Pink Floyd could play here again to fill the empty site?

Dream on...

Published: 12 October 2018 I love looking up at the sky through trees and dreaming. This is a London Plane tree in a Hammersmith park, there are some Willows in the distance. Autumn is clearly here and a view like this is heartening in itself but also a reminder of a post-pradial summer afternoon in a Mediterranean heatwave looking up at the burning sun through a Corsican Pine. Dream on...

Street artist at work

Published: 10 October 2018 Midday in Cours Julien, Marseille in the Quartier des Créatives. So no surprise to see a street art in construction. The artist is working from his iPhone but otherwise he’s painting direct on the base layer he’s prepared on the wall. No prolem with taking a photo but he didn’t want to talk and didn’t leave an obvious tag of his or name signature when he had finished. A long way from the (necessarily?) furtive activities of UK street artists.

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