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Gloucester was a gateway city for me, the first I came to know well. Gloucester: ‘Glarster’ if you’re local, perhaps ‘Glowsester’ if you’re American, or ‘Gloster’ to anyone else. It was the closest city to where I grew up in the Forest of Dean and we often made the half hour journey for shopping and […]
Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
The annual Cardiff St David’s Day Parade took place last Friday. It’s a traditional Cardiff event which I have photographed a number of times. Although I remain disappointed about missing the 2018 event. Last year it arrived in the midst of the second ‘Beast From The East’. This blast of arctic weather generated a major […]
On Saturday evening, Cardiff City played their first home match since the disappearance of new club record signing Emiliano Sala and his light aircraft pilot David Ibbotson. There was an outpouring of emotion from the stands, players and staff, including Cardiff manager Neil Warnock. Since visiting Cardiff City Stadium the evening after the plane disappeared, […]
Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington, London. The remains of the tower still stand after a severe fire broke out on June 14th 2017 which is said to have killed 72 people. I parrot Wikipedia to begin, because it’s difficult knowing where to start with Grenfell. It’s a monster […]
The annual Barry Island New Year’s Day Dip attracted more people this year thanks to an explosion of glorious weather. Our new year of 2019 dawned with a rare and unexpected purity, unobscured sunshine rising from the horizon and embalming everything gold. It had been solid grey for several days before, and fellow dog-walkers in […]
On December 19th 2018 I took myself down the motorway for a short but intense day trip of London photography. It had been a while since I’d visited and my feet had grown itchy for newness and difference. London is a sprawling, diverse city which I love, and where I lived for about three years […]
You undergo psychological adjustments when you become a parent. One of the major ones concerns allotments of time. That is, how you allot your future time on this planet in your head, and where you are going in life. Mental adjustments as a parent For so long as a free, childless person you are used […]
Two months into fatherhood and I still feel uneasy on the issue of sharenting. That is, sharing pictures of your kids online. Sharenting is a subject I have long wrangled with. My brother’s reticence about images of his beautiful kids has meant I haven’t shuncled very much over the years, despite having many lovely images […]
Continuing my blog catch-up, here’s some spurious mind fluff about a seasonal thing which has caught my interest and snagged my face over recent weeks. As a dog-walker you tend to develop a keen sense of the changing seasons, day by day. The late summer bleed into autumn is one of the most visually striking […]