Every year I create a calendar – it is a promise to the future but for 2026 I hesitated. Here’s why, and how I decided in the end I would create another calendar for another year.
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From Festive to Forgotten: The Afterlife of Christmas Trees
Twelfth Night on January 5th signifies the end of Christmas celebrations, leading to the abandonment of Christmas trees. I re-decorate discarded trees in my area, photographing the results. These images have been transformed into Christmas cards, available for purchase.
Calendar 2022
*** SOLD OUT *** Scroll down to find out how to buy Each year since 2016 I have produced a calendar for sale via this website. It’s a great way to exhibit my work and every year I try to think of a new theme, something a little different to a traditional calendar. You canContinue reading “Calendar 2022”
2021
After last week’s blog on 2020 now it’s time to look to the coming year. In the current circumstance making plans might not seem the best idea. Life, the world and pandemics can get in the way. However I am always the sort of person who likes to look to the future and see what I can achieve next.
2020
2020 in twelve photographs
LRPS
I am pleased to have been made a Licientiate of the Royal Photographic Society. Here are the photographs I included in my submission.
Fading lines
To commemorate the lifting of the old tranway through Weymouth town centre I have produced a short video of the photographs I took walking the line back in 2017.
A photographic memory
The author began taking photographs in the 1970s, starting with a Zorki 4K camera. Although early aspirations of becoming a freelance photographer faded, the passion remained through explorations in Dorset. During the Covid-19 lockdown, the author rediscovered old slides, prompting reflections on memory and time, inspiring new photographic creations.
Riding to the end of the road
As a cyclist I have always been attracted to a road’s potential – where it starts and where it could take me – so I thought I would use my photography to explore this journey. In 2018 I explored the fringes of the Dorset coastline. I sought out country lanes that ran down to theContinue reading “Riding to the end of the road”
Notebook
I started taking photographs in the pre-digital age and in those days I would carry a little notebook with me to record the “what” (subject), “how” (exposure settings) and, occasionally, the “why” (why was I taking the photograph; what had attracted me to the subject. These days with a digital camera the “how” is stored with the photographs and, the deluge of photographs I can take now that I no longer have to ration myself with a single roll of film, means that I can end up forgetting about the “what” and the “why”