What’s new
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Leader Water – a finished project
The Leader Water is the third in a series of three books featuring woodland in the Scottish Borders. A finished project? Well, maybe for the time being.
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Backstories
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Late bar, Venice, 2008
By daylight the scene is nothing to write home about. But at night, nearly midnight, all those extraneous elements and colours just disappeared, and the atmosphere of the Venetian night took over.
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The Heron Wood, 2020 an intuitive project
Is your photography thought-through or more intuitive? Do your pictures depend on your experience or do you just go exploring?
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Piemme, Bologna, 2006
I remember feeling quite overwhelmed by the blue and didn’t really notice anything else for a while. I knew I had to take this photograph.
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Safe Homecomings, 2016
Thoughts of home after the uncertainty of carefully picking your way up river past sandbars and shoals.
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The Farnes, 2019
Going back through my pictures, I’ve been finding it far easier to identify interesting monochrome images to document rather than colour ones. Better? Or just different?
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Distant Horizons, 2019
Sometimes, when you take a photograph, you know immediately what it’s about. Other times, you’re not so sure. This was one of those times.
On Seeing
The latest in a collection of writings about seeing in photography
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Level horizons and constructive criticism
Level horizons are really just the tip of a critical iceberg. Here’s why you should consider going straight.
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Expectations of Pictures
I got thinking about how we each bring our own expectations of how images work. What really interested me was how we deal with when that expectation is not met.
On Motivation
The latest in a collection of writings about motivation in photography
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Artist or Photographer?
Artist or photographer? A question after a talk I gave stumped me for a while, and here’s why. But is it either / or or can I be both?
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How a small edit changes a snapshot to fine art
How can one photo work as both a snapshot and as fine art with just one small edit?
On Landscapes
The latest in a collection of writings about photographing landscapes
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Artist or Photographer?
Artist or photographer? A question after a talk I gave stumped me for a while, and here’s why. But is it either / or or can I be both?
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How a small edit changes a snapshot to fine art
How can one photo work as both a snapshot and as fine art with just one small edit?