Composed Images
Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington, London. Its remains 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 of a subject, […]
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 what felt like a long time before, […]
On December 19th 2018 I took myself down the motorway for a short but intense day trip of London street photography. It had been a while since I’d visited and my feet had grown itchy for newness and difference. London is a properly big sprawling diverse city which I love, and one where I lived […]
You undergo psychological adjustments when you become a parent. One of the major ones concerns allotments of time, or so it appears to me. 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 […]
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 which I’ve 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 […]
A belated wedding photography blog post about a Vale of Glamorgan wedding this summer. It all happened quite a while ago now. In fact, it feels like ages because so much has happened since. (September saw the release of a baby and a book, ‘Canton & Pontcanna’). But the dates and calendars assure me that […]
This week sees the release of my Cardiff street photography book, Canton and Pontcanna, published by The History Press. I’m told it is (or will be) available to buy from Octavo’s in Cardiff Bay, Griffin Books in Penarth, and Amazon in the Internet. Canton and Pontcanna – Times of Day It all came about in […]
Cardiff City return to the Premier League this weekend after securing promotion with a second place finish in the Sky Bet Championship last term. The primary objective this time around, just like their last time in the top flight during the 2013/14 season, will be to stay up. Last time they failed and were some […]
My attention was recently drawn away from peripheral points of Cardiff’s skyline and towards the more obvious ones. The latest and arguably most glaring addition to Cardiff’s ever-changing city centre skyline is… *no drum roll needed*… yes, yet another tower of student accommodation. The new 24 storey effort on Charles Street will eventually be home […]