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Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
The annual Cardiff St David’s Day Parade took place last Friday. It’s a traditional Cardiff event I have photographed a number of times. Although I remain disappointed about missing the 2018 event. Last year it arrived in the midst of the second ‘Beast From The East’. This blast of arctic weather generated a major dumping […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 obvious ones. Or more specifically, one very obvious one. 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 […]
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 but identifiably sneaks into many images captured in the near vicinity. From the Garth Mountain to the north – another enchanting […]
I hate this time of year. My earliest hayfever memories include seeing a school exam paper being splashed by two rogue drips from my nose, ones that got away. On the day England beat Holland 4-1 in Euro 96 I had one of about three experimental acupuncture treatments for it, an impressive array of needles […]
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 ultimately grow sick of it. I recently completed a large body of work – the specifics of which […]