Composed Images
A short note to explain why I don’t update this blog or website much anymore. In fact, this might end up being something of a full stop on these composedimages.co.uk posts. At least for now. In recent months, most of my professional energy has been dedicated to establishing my private psychotherapy practice. I have been […]
In mid-October Britain it can seem like a relatively low level god is resentfully toying with a dimmer switch, daring it to break. Sunshine Cloud cloud Sunshine Cloud Sunshine sunshine sunshine Cloud cloud… Before the switch breaks, the clocks go back, and we are plunged into seemingly eternal wintertime gloom. There are more days when […]
Former Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba has died, aged 39. He was reported to have overcome cancer while at Cardiff in 2021, before taking on a coaching role. Most recently he was coaching at Turkish club Adanaspor. A club statement said he fell ill before a match, “was taken to hospital and unfortunately lost his […]
The 2024 general election is now fast approaching on July 4th, and it’s commanding headlines as you’d expect. The current prime minister Rishi Sunak took some by surprise in announcing it so early in the year, as others had expected it to happen around October. Attuned to local election photo opportunities, I heard of Plaid […]
Last week saw an overlap of two professional interests, as I photographed a conference talk about an industry-specific generative AI solution. (I’ve been working on a generative AI writing project training Large Language Models since April 2023). AI is rarely out of the headlines today and certainly pops up all over my LinkedIn. However, it’s […]
Shooting stars – saluting Alyn Wallace
There are some photographers who you admire from afar for years without ever really engaging or connecting. It’s sort of sad, but such is the age we live in. Alyn Wallace was one such photographer for me, a landscape astrophotographer. He has tragically died overseas, aged I’m guessing around his mid-30s, after a complicated pre-existing […]
As I haven’t fed this blog for about half a year, here’s a mishmash post of recent words and images from the first two months of 2024, half cobbled and extrapolated from my latest Instagram posts. Photographs and memory have an inextricably connected relationship, as discussed on these pages before. Photos can serve to cement […]
Here’s a selection of event photography images from a couple of tech conferences that came along in September 2023, one straight after the other. Both were repeat jobs I’d done before, working with pleasant people, which always helps things along well. The first was Serverless Days Cardiff at Depot, a large warehouse in the industrial […]
Dear Harry, Firstly, thanks for everything. There’s no way you won’t be a huge loss to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. As a fan, I would have much preferred you to go to Real Madrid, the true cream of European football where you deserve to play and win the big trophies, perhaps alongside an England starlet […]
A belated post about the period around the coronation of King Charles II in May 2023, observed from Cardiff in Wales and London in England. On the Saturday of the coronation ceremony itself, there was little obvious indication of it in Cardiff. No bustling excited schoolkids, no union jack flags, no bunting, no street-side pubs […]