Composed Images
The tower of St Augustine’s Church in Penarth interrupts the skyline overlooking Cardiff Bay and can be seen for miles around. A small but striking blip on the horizon, the Gothic 19th Century tower quietly sneaks into many images captured in the near vicinity. From Garth Mountain to the north – another enchanting point on the […]
I hate this time of year. Early hayfever memories include seeing a school exam paper being splashed by two rogue drips from my nose. Aged 15, on the day England beat Holland 4-1 in Euro 96 I had one of about three experimental acupuncture treatments. My face briefly resembled a pin-cushion, an impressive array of […]
I photographed a bunch of abandoned farm buildings last weekend. To me they were irresistible and enchanting: crumbly, dusty, dishevelled, mysterious, dangerous. The way light plays in through a doorway or pours through a shattered roof can be mesmerising. Chaotic jagged angles make for unusual compositions. Scenes like this are great settings for a film […]
Wembley Woe for Tottenham
A couple of weeks ago I took another late season trip to London to photograph a Tottenham match for Prime Media Images. Twelve months ago this trip was something of a personal homage to photograph a first and last match at White Hart Lane, the football ground of Tottenham Hotspur I had visited on countless […]
With a creative process of any size come a host of similar problems. If you’re working with a large volume of material that you’re attempting to structure in a coherent, clever, engaging or entertaining way, you can grow sick of it. I recently completed a large body of work – the specifics of which I […]
Brexit is the defining political word of modern day Britain. It has been for a couple of years now, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. The EU referendum in June 2016 narrowly decided that Britain should leave the European Union. It caused societal upset and political upheaval which continues unabated. It appears […]
Royal family photos have global appeal. In January 2018 it was announced that Prince Harry and his future wife, Meghan Markle, would visit Cardiff. The place was quickly abuzz with excitement. Princess Catherine of Cambridge had visited a charity in Caerphilly around 12 months earlier, but with the big wedding a handful of months away, […]
Football lovers usually have a specific personal place where, for them, football belongs. This place is often where it first kicked in, that football obsession, or where it was steadily nurtured over a childhood. You often see highly produced television features where players are taken back to their roots, illustrating ‘rags to riches’ stories, and […]
Welcome to the second part of this 2017 photo review of images uploaded to this site over the year. It takes the not very imaginative form of covering the 6 month period from July to December. If you missed the first part, you might want to pop back there before continuing. Or you might not. […]
As we creak to the end of another year, it’s time for a photo review of 2017 using pictures uploaded to this Composed Images website over the last 12 months. (This is not at all because I am too lazy to find and upload any more). If you’re interested in viewing more pictures of any […]