Composed Images
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 […]
The weather currently seems like a cruel joke of nature. All week it has been freakishly settled, clear and sunny after weeks of extremely stormy weather wreaking widespread flooding and major damage. Now it is all calming and serene, but everybody is having panic attacks and nobody can go out much. Life is increasingly hard […]
The first football through my lens in 2020 arrived through a grassroots football photography commission at vast Cardiff council pitches and old stomping ground, Trelai Park. It brought back a few football playing memories. My memory bank of playing football is substantial. From primary school matches to kickabouts with friends in parks to the handful […]
Part one: 22/11/2019. The 2019 general election campaign is in full swing. The tyre rubber of the political party battle buses is being worn as leaders head around the UK, glossy manifestos have been printed, lots of different things are being ‘launched’, televised debates between leaders are hot topics of conversation. The weeks and days […]
October is usually the best month of the year for autumn photography but this October of 2019 has been a wash-out of almost endless rain. Merciful pockets of fine autumn weather have rarely extended to more than a couple of days. Rain rain rain The rain has hammered down, hard and insistent. Met Office weather warnings […]
The Brexit Party conference tour stopped in Newport on Saturday. Occasionally you find yourself photographing events which seem to firmly timestamp a moment, to reflect something much wider. Which isn’t to claim the images are unique or remarkable in the widest sense. This was one of several similar Brexit Party conference dates across Britain, one […]
At a time when most high streets appear boringly samey, dominated by shouty big brand names, I find myself increasingly drawn to traditional indoor markets. Indoor markets offer a portal into an era of traditional retail: butchers, bakers, grocers, cobblers, record stores. And beguiling old brickabrack too: ornaments, grandfather clocks, vinyl, framed pictures and posters. […]
St Fagans National Museum of History is a true treasure of Wales and Britain. It was fantastic to see it named Art Fund Museum of the Year last week, beating off four other contenders from around the UK to win the prestigious £100,000 prize. St Fagans National Museum of History St Fagans allows visitors to […]
Our first trip away as a family of four took us to North Devon in mid-June. And we picked a week of almost constant rain. We stayed in one of a complex of several farmhouses near Ilfracombe. The farm had a few large fields in which we could exercise the dog, but there was no […]
Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh died yesterday, aged 49, five days after suffering a cardiac arrest. He has dominated my thoughts over the last 24 hours – along with football, life and death. Some of those thoughts… If you follow football for most of your life, a false closeness can develop with football people. You […]