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Ruminations of an Optical Neurotic
The creative approach is always to work within the limitations available to us at the time and come up with the best solution, certainly not to regret the lack of a particular focal length, or an exotically-priced superior alternative. more
Professional Freedom
The camera has been part of some of the most powerful, emotional, contemplative, and consequential experiences in my life. more
Water and Fire
At grassroots level, as well as governmental. As photographers, we can share our ideas, our images, our concern and our determination. more
The Experience is All
I have found that in order to make my most meaningful and expressive photographs I had to learn to put photography out of my mind—to not allow it any attention at all until called upon by some aspect of a meaningful experience to make a photograph. more
Nobody Expects the Inquisition!
One of my overarching motivations for photographing is to explore the gap between how the combination of my mind and eye apprehend reality and how a camera and lens render that. more
Colours of Summer
Everyone loves the long hot summer days, the short, warm nights, the bright greens of summer…everyone it seems, except grumpy old landscape photographers! more
Southern Manscapes
Man's influence on the landscape here is obvious and almost unavoidable photographically. I decided to embrace this and to make the transformation of the land and man's influence on it the subject of the photographs. more
Ideas Behind Reality in Photography
It’s important to highlight that deception involves intent. Tools and techniques don’t have intents, people do. Deception is not about whether someone applied some tool or technique, it’s about whether someone used a tool or technique specifically intending to deceive others. more
Acquisitions and Inquisitions
This paradox springs from the fact that photographers’ peers are seen as both their preferred audience and their competition for the acquisition of images. Photographers want to brag about where they’ve been to people who they think will appreciate it. more
Ideas Behind Reality in Photography
For me, the overriding approach is that I want to make sure I express authentic experience. The feelings I want to express in my work are true to my own experience, and my experience is to a large degree influenced by the reality I work in—the beauty and complexity of natural places. more
Drawn to Rock
This small exhibition answers the request for an artistic response to the unique landscape of Brimham Rocks. The goal was to combine traditional photographic working methods with something more deliberately experimental. more
The Beauty Remains
It occurred to me that in the past I used to go to these beloved places for solace and healing, but now it feels as though the healers have fallen ill themselves. more
Key Lessons from Old Pictures
As art students, we were taught the principle of being prepared to ‘Sacrifice the Beloved’. This gory-sounding epithet means that those parts of a piece of art we might have considered crucial in the early draft, or original concept, sometimes have to be ditched to allow the final version to really work. more
The Promised Land
Joshua Tree National Park is wonderfully ordinary and I understand its popularity. Slowing down to listen to cactus wrens, watch the light change, and photograph with no expectations has been one of the greatest gifts I’ve received as a photographer. more
Judge or Be Judged
I’ve written quite a lot about competitions in the past but being as we’re so close to the opening of submissions for the Natural Landscape Photography Awards, I wanted to go into a bit more detail about the process of judging more