Out of Nature – art in landscape
I've no idea why, but I often struggle with 3D art in a gallery. A space that seems perfectly suited to a flat two dimensional image somehow seems inadequate to…
Oh, what’s occurrin’…?
What's occurring is my sixty-sixth birthday. And Dot and I chose to occur it on the Gower Peninsula. Wales. UK. Ten years ago we visited the Gower. The King Arthur…
It’s only rugby, don’t lose your head…
Somedays, photography is really easy. When three headless rugby players, a dinosaur and Captain Hook all turn up in the same place, under a fluffy clouded September sky, on a…
A politician’s lot is oft a snappy one…(apologies to G&S)
People regularly say politicians are two faced. For a photographer, that is often a good thing. In fact, the more faces a politician can summon up, the merrier. Watch the…
Funtimes at Dismaland
Three quid buys you very little these days. Nearly a pint of beer (so long as you're north of Watford), almost a magazine, a bus ride to not quite where…
Monarch of the Bren
While driving around this week taking pictures of events and happenings celebrating the long serving reign of our queen, I was reminded of a photograph I took last year. "Quick,…
Unthankuverymuch
“Going off The Unthanks” a friend I met at Moseley Folk Festival offered. “Preferred 'em when they were just a capella and clog dancing. Too over-produced nowadays.” Over-produced clog dancing...I…
Red Lemons anniversary pic
I was asked to recreate a classic band pic of the Red Lemons Electric Blues Band for the local paper, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. They had reformed to do…
Wednesday morning at the Hagley Palladian (Bridge)
I was bouncing down a winding dirt track in a golf buggy, facing backwards with my camera bag on my lap and Joe the landscape gardener hanging on alongside me,…