What a beautiful sight to see the moon in the shadow of the earth, glowing an amazing red in the dark night sky above my studio in the Oxfordshire countryside. I watched it slowly disappear from a glorious bright full moon to that shadowy red glow and back...
Wild poppies are growing in abundance in the wild and they are the most beautiful flower; the bees in our garden are loving them. It is also a very symbolic flower and lovely to see that these wild poppies have seeded themselvesamazingly right next to...
I have recently done some publicity photographs for a group of 7 guys attempting to row the Channel in June in a Cornish Gig boat. This was their first training session in open water in the Solent off Portsmouth. I followed them in a support boat...
Last week we were looking for the sun to shine through the clouds over Oxford to get a glimpse of the partial eclipse. It was quite magical when the clouds suddenly became translucent to reveal the magnificent spectacle. On this occasion I observed and enjoyed the moment without...
It has been very sad to finally dismantle my B/W darkroom, which was a big part of my business, having not been used for at least 10 years, and it led me to reflect on the enormous changes in photography during the digital revolution. A photo...
Beautiful morning for photography in Oxford today by the river. A misty winter sunrise and a wooden post the point of focus to enhance the composition. A lovely scene....
How wrong this statement is. The camera is forever playing tricks. It distorts perspective, it loses details in shadows and highlights, it gets colours all wrong, it can focus on the wrong subject etc. etc. But we can make brilliant use of its lies and deceipts...
Everyone who has a smartphone now is a photographer, and that is most of the population. Faces light up when people take photos of their friends , of people doing crazy things, the unusual, the good, the bad and the ugly. But what happens to...
Staying Power at the V&A museum is a great new photography exhibition documenting the contribution of Black Britons to society. I saw the photographer Charlie Phillips interviewed ( one of the exhibitors) who began taking photographs in Notting Hill with Kodak Brownie given to him. There...