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One sunny Sunday morning in February 2023 I cycled to Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan. This was an extended cycle which I’d been toying with for a while, but now the conditions were just about perfect. The weather was fine and looked reasonably settled. I had enough time to play with. There was an […]
Britain seems like a tiny island when viewed on a global map, although it’s still much larger than most of its near neighbours in Europe. You can forget how diverse it is, become blinkered by your own area of it, if you don’t tend to travel far, especially in recent pandemic-blighted times. Your vision of […]
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, there were countless tributes and parades. There were gun salutes in castles, proclamation ceremonies, silences and songs. There were lavish, formal ceremonies, not held in 70 years, new and novel to virtually everyone. They assembled amusingly disjointed bunches of people from across political divides, including […]
7 March 2022 Monday afternoon, standing at improvised kitchen surface desk: kitchen surface, upturned plastic washing-up bowl, cardboard box. Because my back is still sore. Putting on socks isn’t quite as traumatic as it was this time last week, but it’s still a long way from right, despite two recent trips to the chiropractor. The […]
Last month I photographed the Wales national football team’s final group qualification matches for the 2022 World Cup, against Belarus and Belgium. The win and draw determined that Wales would have a home tie in the semi-final of their World Cup play-off against Austria in March 2022. And if they win that match, another home […]
The year of 2021 has been deeply unusual for live events and event photography. When it began in January, the still-raging pandemic meant that most events of any scale were pretty much off the cards. Indoor events were certainly a no-no. Now they are back. By the time summer arrived, things had changed, or were […]
Come on. Just give me a new blog to eat. Do it for me, your old website friend eh? How about it? Some nice fresh content to chew on. It’s been a while and I’m hungry. It doesn’t have to be any good. You don’t have to shyly promote it on social media, half embarrassed […]
Cardiff is nearing the end of its two-week firebreak lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government to slow the spread of coronavirus. It is due to be lifted on November 9th. On Monday morning I photographed some city centre shopping streets. Media outlets and picture editors tend to favour a slightly amplified image of complete desertion […]
The England v Wales friendly international was a game I applied to photograph without much hope. Places are strictly limited in the covid world, and my application had been unsuccessful for the last Wales home game. It all feels like a lottery, and sometimes it literally is. England v Wales – the background It wasn’t […]
Trees matter but we often take them for granted or ignore them altogether. They matter to us individually, collectively and as a planet. They pop up in cities as designed features of the street. They appear in our leafy suburbs and gardens. They form epicentres of natural life in their traditional habitats of woodlands and […]