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  • British Horse Society Project

    My Saturday was spent documenting the Aintree Summer Camp 2016 for The British Horse Society. This is my first assignment for the BHS, and I had a wonderful time. I’ve assembled the images from the event into a British Horse Society documentary project, and plan to build on this as I attend more events in…

  • Two views of Stocks Reservoir

    Two pictures I made of Stocks Reservoir.  I’m not really a landscape photographer, but these are interesting because they are both of the same scene, both captured from The Causeway in Gisburn Forest, but shot twenty-two years apart. The weather conditions are obviously different, as is the water level! The first photograph was made on black and white film…

  • Photographic dreams

    When I’ve been doing quite a lot of intense photography, I find I suffer from strange photographic dreams. There are far worse dreams I could have, but these photographic dreams are particularly frustrating because it’s in the dreams that I seem to be making my best pictures! There isn’t really a beginning or end to the…

  • Welcome to the Moorcock

    In my early twenties I used to regularly pass a place called the Moorcock Inn. It was on a quiet road between Waddington and Newton in the Ribble Valley, perfect for a summer evening drive out with friends in my freshly waxed car. I haven’t been that way in some time, but in July this year I fell upon the place again, and…

  • Artists in Liverpool

    I spent the afternoon in Liverpool yesterday, photographing artists in their studios. It was great fun, and the people I met were so friendly and patient while I fussed around them. The spaces themselves were amazing too – so vibrant, and just buzzing with creativity. I’ve got lots of pictures to go through to pull…

  • The joy of printing

    I’ve spent the last couple of days producing prints for a portfolio update after pulling together edits for a couple of projects I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve never really produced my own portfolio prints, preferring instead to use a lab. However, I have just invested in a good A3 printer, and have been hankering to…

  • The game with the hole

    I had a great afternoon documenting an afternoon’s polo for Cheshire Polo Club last week. This is one of my favourite shots of the day – a documentary image of the farrier at work between chukkas. While I was a bit concerned about the weather, in the end it turned out to be a great afternoon and…

  • Liverpool’s Boss!

    Liverpool has changed massively since I used to work here as a computer programmer back in the mid-1990s. I remember certain areas being no-go zones, not particularly because of crime or violence (this was long after the days of the Toxteth riots), but simply because large parts of the city comprised of nothing but derelict warehouses.…