Composed Images
Six of my seven Wembley match applications had been flatly rejected by UEFA over the course of the tournament. But of course I applied for the Final, Italy against England, because I could. My chances were incredibly slim, to photograph what would be the biggest football match of a generation, the biggest match I would […]
Written in some attempt to process the awful event… We all watch, dumbstruck, horrified, harrowed, sickened. It’s just before half-time of this third match of the coronavirus-delayed Euro 2020 tournament. Denmark against Finland in Copenhagen. Around 4 or 5pm here in the UK on another baking midsummer day. It’s surreal to see a stadium almost […]
A new laptop battery led me to a shop in the Cardiff streets of my student days this week. While my machine was being tinkered with, I took a short wander. A stone’s throw away was the two bedroom flat above a shop I rented with a friend in my third year of university, twenty […]
My relationship with social media is wickedly complicated and constantly evolving and horribly tangled up with creative urges. I don’t really understand the relationship. A big part of me wants there not to be one. Sometimes I want to ignore it and not care at all. Maybe even delete everything and just get on with […]
The now UK-wide coronavirus 2021 lockdown feels a world away from last March. Governments of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England have all done it slightly differently, but after a journey of various changing restrictions over the last few months, we are now in the same place. Here in Wales we have been under “alert […]
Cardiff is nearing the end of its two-week firebreak lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government to slow the spread of coronavirus. It is due to be lifted on November 9th. On Monday morning I photographed some city centre shopping streets. Media outlets and picture editors tend to favour a slightly amplified image of complete desertion […]
The England v Wales friendly international was a game I applied to photograph without much hope. Places are strictly limited in the covid world, and my application had been unsuccessful for the last Wales home game. It all feels like a lottery, and sometimes it literally is. England v Wales – the background It wasn’t […]
Trees matter but we often take them for granted. They matter to us individually, collectively and as a planet. They pop up in cities as designed features of the street. They appear in our leafy suburbs and gardens, and in traditional habitats of woodlands and forests. Humans ponder trees almost as much as water, ponds, […]
Before coronavirus there was greater possibility. That can be applied to life in general and narrowly to working as a ‘new normal photographer’. Things were never exactly easy but you could try to generate leads yourself, be proactive, get out there. You’d have occasional hits and many more misses but things could work out, if […]
In a break from very occasional posts about obscure points on the Cardiff skyline, this post looks at one of its most obvious. The Principality Stadium is the national stadium of Wales and one of Cardiff’s architectural crown jewels. Formerly known as the Millennium Stadium, it is a primary regional venue to major sporting and […]