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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Conservative party leadership hustings event came at the end of a heavy day of work. Most of the day was spent photographing a conference at the University of South Wales in Treforest. Late afternoon saw me concentrate on a separate line of business from the home office, with little break before heading off to […]
The deeply depressing news broke last Friday afternoon. Roe V Wade had been overturned in the US, meaning around half the US states would make abortion illegal again, 50 years after the famous case. I felt compelled to photograph this small protest outside Cardiff Crown Court on a drizzly June evening. With other protests in […]
About Ukraine… They came to Cardiff bearing blue and yellow flags with assorted messages: from the names of devastated home towns and simple words in support of their army, to the more pointed ‘Russian war ship go f*ck yourself’. They wore traditional dress and included the very young and the old. They chanted the names […]
Domestic UK news headlines of 2022 are pummelling us with the cost of living crisis, rocketing energy costs and widespread economic strife. It can be difficult not to be fearful, as a self-employed person running a small business, and as a husband and dad and mortgage-payer. These are tricky times to navigate through. So it’s […]
Street photography in Cheltenham was a new experience fo me. In recent years I only visited the town occasionally to shoot football matches, quick in-and-out trips, never hanging around. But having studied my A-Levels there in the late 1990s, and living in the town for about 18 months in my mid 20s, I always felt […]
Heading footballs is bad for your health. At the time of first drafting these words, Manchester United legend Denis Law had become the latest to reveal his diagnosis of alzheimer’s disease, largely attributed to heading footballs. His former team-mate Sir Bobby Charlton also has the condition, as did Charlton’s brother Jack, who died last year […]