About
“What I do isn’t work – bricklaying is work.” - David Bailey
I am fortunate to be able to dedicate my time to doing what I love - taking photographs. I am not looking to become famous or rich, but I do hope to take good photographs that not only give me pleasure, but occasionally give the viewer a moment’s pause and maybe offer a new glimpse of something often viewed, but rarely seen.
I'm a big fan of landscape photography and love spending time exploring my favourite places around around the UK and Europe. Meanwhile I love taking portraits, and especially like doing pet (and owner) portraiture. I love seeing how people interact with their pets and vice versa, and I'm becoming increasingly drawn to trying to capture that relationship in photographs. I am spending a lot of time in the studio and working hard to get the perfect photo of a dog! We all need something to aim for in life...
I'm a photographer, currently working in the UK and France.
I seem to have spent a lot of my life looking at the world through a camera’s viewfinder. I’ve always liked the way the process of taking a photograph requires us to be selective about seeing what surrounds us, making choices, deciding what we want to remember. Somehow the act of framing our view gives a different meaning to what we see, and the capturing of that moment in a fraction of a second preserves more than just an image.
There are all manner of things that people can find to disagree about, but in the world of digital photography it's usually whether you use Nikon or Canon cameras...
Of course the camera is only a tool and no amount of expensive equipment will turn a bad photo into a good one, but for me there's a comfort in my familiarity with Nikon's spectacular gadgets. I've used Nikon cameras exclusively since I bought my first manual 35mm Nikkormat sometime in the early 1980s and I love them now as much as I did then.