A collection of short articles on photography
It’s not all black and white
So why a series of colour photos? I think we need to place that responsibility firmly with Batsceba 🙂 After all, 95% of my pictures are in…
Life’s A Drag – The Smoker’s Gallery
I think I might be an incredibly dull person. I don’t eat meat; I don’t drink and I’ve never had a cigarette in my life. And yet…
Yorkshire History & Heritage – After the Coal Dust article
Last year I was asked to write an article on After the Coal Dust for Yorkshire History & Heritage Magazine. The full article is featured below. AFTER…
One Hundred Faces
I never really set out to create the ‘100 Faces Project’. All I really do is wander around and point a camera in the general direction of…
Masks – Street Portraits
On the street, in real life, there is no Rembrandt or Butterfly lighting arrangements. We are illuminated by the fluorescent lights in cafes or the glow from…
Photos & Thoughts – August 2023
Toby jugs and vibrators – tales from the car boot sales
Photographers, perverts and paranoia…revisited.
A while back I posted an article called Photographers, perverts and paranoia – it might be time for an update. I had an interesting, if somewhat tense,…
I’ve Broken the Internet!
I’ve broken the internet! A couple of days back I posted this photo from a few years back in to a Facebook group. I quite like the…
I do like to be beside the seaside – Scarborough and Bridlington
When I was a kid, we didn’t have holidays. There was no car, no money, and my father had long since disappeared with his debts and booze….
Review of the year 2022
Quite a successful year, exhibitions in both the UK and Japan and another few hundred pictures for the archives. Here’s a short selection of photos taken this…
Where do you find all these characters?
One of the questions I get asked most often is ‘where do you find all these characters?’ My usual answer is along the lines of ‘they’re everywhere’….
Review of the year 2020
2020 will forever be associated with Covid-19. The street photography opportunities have been very restricted and look as though they will be for a while to come….
Street Photography After Coronavirus
Street photography has always been contentious; plenty of people have objected to it for their various reasons; privacy, the motives behind it, it’s boring, they don’t ‘get…
Street Photography and the Lockdown
Being prevented from going out hardly provides the best opportunities for street photography. Unlike many we have stuck to the guidelines, only going out for essential shopping…
I’m a photographer, please let me patronize you.
A short while ago I posted this picture online, a candid street photo like many others. One of the comments was “He looks as though he needs…
Words about my father
Words about my father So what do I know? I have a vague memory of deep set eyes and heavy eyebrows. A slender frame with hairy arms….
I’ve never been to New York!
A lot of people dislike street photography. A lot of photographers dislike street photography. That’s okay, I understand that. What I don’t understand is those ‘photographers’ who…
An hour in Leeds
If you look too hard for photos they probably won’t be there. Just be ready for when they are 🙂 One of the questions that seem to…
The Seaside
Scarborough and Bridlington – A photographer’s paradise I never really had holidays as a kid. No transport, no father, and no money. The closest we got was…