Letting go

 

You look like a lizard’, snapped the picaresque denizen of Washington Square New York City, ’Eyes swivelling left and right like you’re hunting bugs’

I guess I have always been a photographer. Only for 40 years I didn’t know it.

In my late teens I was fascinated but marriage, family and the pressure of building my professional practice as a lawyer blew out the light and, with it, my self-belief. 

Then in 1998 the candle was reignited when I was taught how attention to light, form and detail was the way to make and not take pictures. 

I’m happy working in the landscape and on the street and now have started to explore using my camera as a paint brush employing the multiple exposure and ICM techniques.

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Dales Way - Eccup

300 yards from my home in North Leeds ‘Narnia’s’ gate dramatically transports me into Wharefedale and these three pictures were made on a breathlessly cold frosty morning

Cairngorms

Three images made during a photo tour of the Cairngorms led and inspired by Valda Bailey and Doug Chinnery - exploring themes expressed using multiple exposure techniques

Sanctuary - a response to lockdown

Images captured during solitary walks in local woodland during lockdown - responding to my thoughts and fears in the first year of the Covid pandemic.!

The Faroes archipelago

In October 2024 I visited the Faroes Islands and made these pictures during a gale blown week.

Torridon !

3 images made during another stormy week visiting Torridon in Wester Ross NW Scotland

Black and White street photography

A few of my favourite images made out and about, here and there.!

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