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In mid-October Britain it can seem like a relatively low level god is resentfully toying with a dimmer switch, daring it to break. Sunshine Cloud cloud Sunshine Cloud Sunshine sunshine sunshine Cloud cloud… Before the switch breaks, the clocks go back, and we are plunged into seemingly eternal wintertime gloom. There are more days when […]
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 […]
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 […]
The opening months of 2022 have seen me rekindling my passion for street photography. It’s been helped by visiting new towns, which always helps to renew the spark. Whatever those places are like, there is greater sensitivity and heightened observation when you are somewhere unfamiliar, and if you only have a limited amount of time […]
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 […]
On December 19th 2018 I took myself down the motorway for a short but intense day trip of London photography. It had been a while since I’d visited and my feet had grown itchy for newness and difference. London is a sprawling, diverse city which I love, and where I lived for about three years […]
The figurative ‘journey’ is a clichéd formula we fall for time and again when watching films, reading books, or listening to a speaker tell their tale of great success. But it is effective because it is universal, relatable and usually has at least a grain of truth. Life is a journey, like it or not. […]