What’s new
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Photo Book Making Resources
Here you’ll find a list of the some of the resources I have been grateful to find and make use of while learning to make my own books.
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Backstories
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A Longing for Distant Shores, 2015
It does seem I get inspired by bad weather. I just needed 50 seconds between squalls to get the long exposure shot, and I wasn’t getting them.
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Chad! No! Manchester, 2012
“But it’s just a picture of a wall!” It’s also a picture of ambition moderated by pragmatism, of nostalgia, of seeing how things were, how things are now and how they got there.
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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 Fin, 2011
Way back in 2011, I was fascinated by the buildings in Manchester – mainly the Victorian and Edwardian commercial architecture. There was lots to go at, and much that was in an attractive state of dilapidation. But there’s lots of modern buildings too and I regret not photographing more while I was there.
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Bamburgh, 2016
Bamburgh, 2016: bringing myths to life – the story behind the image.
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Lower Gilmore Bank, Edinburgh, 2019
It’s the sort of picture I’ve always longed to be able to make – technically and compositionally appealing.
On Seeing
The latest in a collection of writings about seeing in photography
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Simplify, simplify! Pictures with impact
One of the hardest lessons to learn in photography is how to leave things out. Here’s how to simplify your pictures.
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Black and White Photography – Pictures for the Imagination
A very personal view of black and white photography.
On Motivation
The latest in a collection of writings about motivation in photography
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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?
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Don’t ask me about my camera settings
When you start out it sometimes feels like other photographers are deliberately hiding the details of their craft from you. It takes a little time to realise that the most important feature of the camera is the viewfinder.
On Landscapes
The latest in a collection of writings about photographing landscapes
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Contract or assumption: what do I owe the viewer?
Is it realistic to expect a photographer to concern himself with his viewers expectation about the nature of photography?
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Pose questions, don’t provide answers
In a blink this book by Henry Carroll, apparently for beginners, with pages of detail on how to choose shutter speeds and apertures resolved how I should be taking photographs for maximum impact.
