Composed Images
The remembrance period in Wales and across the UK is an instantly recognisable period of the calendar. It’s an annual cultural moment. Looking back at photographs or moving pictures, you can quickly date the period to within a couple of weeks of the year if you see a poppy. Across the United Kingdom the poppy symbolises remembrance of […]
Abandoned vehicles in random places can hold tantalising mystery. They hint at the unknowable magical tragedy of apocalypse – and who knows, the way modern politics is currently going, perhaps a near future apocalypse. They violently jar and clash against whatever environment they’re found in. Anywhere except scrapyards. Abandoned Vehicle In The Sea I happened across the […]
When autumn arrives in Cardiff, the parklands explode in a riot of colour. As a city rich in greenspace from its centre to its suburbs, most people get to enjoy a part of it. Cardiff Autumn Bute Park is a giant green lung of the city, playing a central role in any Cardiff Autumn. Wide […]
The Cardiff Half Marathon is as much a fixture of the Cardiff sporting calendar as any Six Nations rugby match. It may not command as much media attention outside of Wales, but in terms of footfall, both literal and figurative, and in what it brings to the city, it seems a fair match. Weeks in advance […]
Welsh sport is a regular focus of Composed Images. The hunt for publications is never easy and often fruitless. But it’s usually interesting. I doggedly persist. Not cool to say, but this is partly for the love of it – for the stories, the people and passion it evokes. It’s partly for the dim hope […]
So you need to commission photography but what does a photographer need from you? Most photographers appreciate several key pieces of information from you as a commissioning client or individual customer. This information is usually contained in a photography ‘brief’. This is an outline of requirements which can be formal, tightly scheduled and detailed, or it can be fairly […]
Remember Wales in Euro 2016? Bale, Ramsey, Robson-Kanu’s turn, Allen, Ledley, “Together Stronger”, all that. The 2016/17 football season is now dawning. Over the coming weeks, fans of Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Wrexham will return to the weekly grind. Hope, elation, anger and despair: a gamut of emotions that typify being a fan. Football moves fast. […]
Capturing photographs of Cardiff has occupied me for years, but recent weeks have seen the opening of a new chapter. At the start of July I moved into my ninth Cardiff property. Having lived in Cathays, Roath, Canton, Pontcanna and Heath from 1999 to 2006, my last six years have been spent in the Atlantic Wharf […]
Following a recent post about over-valuing social media responses, this post looks at other reasons why you might choose not to care what other people think of your photographs. It explores ways of creating a necessary distance and becoming a more confident photographer. Caring what others think about your photography can be difficult. You can […]
The Vale of Glamorgan coastline is a spectacular stretch of south Wales. A short distance from any large city, it’s a place of relative seclusion. You’re more likely to seek it out than stumble upon it. And as a destination for tourists or daytrippers, it might still come second to the more obvious allure of the […]