I somehow managed to fail to get to the National Portrait Gallery to see the epic Cindy Sherman retrospective, and yes I did kick myself. However, the lovely...

(WARNING - still about gear) Buying large format camera is like buying into the history of photography. Older ones can be quite cheap (e.g. my 5x4 which cos...

(WARNING - this one is about gear) Over a year ago now, early summer 2018, I bought for a mere £40 a 5x4 camera that had seen better days. A charity shop jo...

Just a quick one. It's the end of August, nearly two months since the Free Range show in London. I had an email a couple of days ago from the Crane Kalman G...

The Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti took to wearing two pairs of glasses at a time to help ease his eye strain. It is said each pair had differ...

On the subject of clouds, I can't believe I forgot to mention Tom Mannion. I met Tom at the Free Range show in London in the summer. He's an old friend of ...

Of course we all like a nice blue sky with a fat old Sun beaming down on us, but I reckon that unless you're trying to convey the burning heat of the desert ...

This is an interesting development. Again, the old boys and girls network comes into play. A former work colleague, who came with her family to see the Open...

While we were in London for Free Range, I was travelling back and forth from my friend's house in Bromley, a 15-20 minute train ride from the city centre. O...

Doing the degree I mean. Well of course it was. A first class BA (Hons) in anything is worth having, and it's a deeply satisfying feeling to know that you k...

An interesting thing, Free Range. I’ve thought about it for a good while and I hate to say it, but I am wondering what its number one merit really is or whe...

When you’ve never packed up your work and transported it to the other end of the country before, it’s a bit daunting. And then of course it has to be carted...

Having spent small eternities installing and invigilating other people's exhibitions when I worked in a museum, I feel I need to say that installing and invi...

...as I was in a post back in April about the clarity slider in Adobe Lightroom....and ref. the Vishniac photographs I mentioned in January being from the ti...

A quick update really, on where we are with the degree show. There's more than me got my printing done already and are waiting to get them mounted onto vario...

What do these photographs have in common? Joyce had never been abroad before 2019 Leo's birthday 2016 I have them in two competitions with decent prizes, but...

If photography is about anything it is about people. It's often about the photographer themselves, from whichever side of the camera you may care to look. ...

I'm fascinated at how I've taken to the academic thing. A duck-to-water thing. Five years ago I was going 'Oh my god, why do they write like this?' when my ...

It's really strange at the age of 60 to be swotting up for a mock job interview, and one that you'll be assessed on at that. It might be perverse, but I lea...

See the previous post for the concept and later images heading towards my degree show, but I think it's fair to say that I now have something close to the fi...