*** 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”
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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
I started taking photographs back in the 1970’s when I was in my late teens. My first “proper” camera where I could control exposure and focus, unlike the point and shoot Instamatic the family used on holidays, was a Zorki 4K, a communist Russian rangefinder loosely based upon the Leica. Later cameras included a ZenithContinue reading “A photographic memory”
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”
Home town
An enforced sojourn in my home town results in a few reflections on its past and present, and I am struck by the unique attraction of an actual railway line running down the middle of the road.
Self-portrait
Welcome and thank you for stopping. This is brief introduction to myself and the purpose of this blog. Feel free to skip!