Personal Notebook and Photographic Journal
Snow is my favourite weather, possibly due to the rarity and he way it makes everything familiar suddenly new, but also because it's simply lovely being out in it. Dressing appropriately against the cold, seeing everyones behaviour change to share the environment whether in play or helping out cars stuck in the snow, it changes... Continue Reading →
I used to do things differently. In my photography from the medium to the method to the subject matter. In the way I sell product and services related to photography, prints, workshops, tutorials, portfolio reviews. I work differently today than when I started, than last year, and I'm sure that next year, next decade I'll... Continue Reading →
In 2019 I wrote a post about having a weird relationship with the 35mm focal length; the lens I learned photography on, and essentially discarded once I realised there were options which gave me results closer to what I wanted in an image at the time. Later that year I wrote another article where I... Continue Reading →
Creative free-fall is an idea I heard expressed by photographer Joel Meyerowitz, when he described his process of constant change in his work. If you become overly familiar or reliant on a certain aspect of your work, like a location, or a focal length, or a type/format of film, then you can start to fall... Continue Reading →
In May earlier this year I photographed at a Murugan Hindu Temple in Milton Keynes during their once in a lifetime Foundation Stone laying ceremony. The Temple is being expanded to accommodate the growing community, and a Foundation Stone is set into the ground under the construction site by the entire community so that the... Continue Reading →
On September 19th there were two memorials at Piccadilly Circus. The billboard of the Piccadilly Lights was unlit, aside from the centre, a simple monogram "EIIR 1926-2002" in plain white. On the stairs up to the central memorial fountain with the statue of Anteros in the middle of Piccadilly Circus there was writing in chalk... Continue Reading →
The Jubilee celebrations presented some really interesting challenges, not least of which was deciding what exactly I wanted to document out of a huge selection of street parties, ceremonies, parades, organised events and spontaneous happenings. I spent the Thursday in Central, and was able to make it in early enough to photograph in St James's... Continue Reading →
Street Dances 