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  • A Short Break in Windsor & Eton

    Nearly twenty years ago, I worked in Slough for around six months. I wasn’t immediately impressed with the town back then, and followed some advice to stay in nearby Windsor instead. I found myself a B&B where I settled for the duration, and since then I have been a regular visitor back to Windsor and…

  • Don’t look too hard

    I have been pretty quiet on my blog, Twitter and Instagram for the last year. The main reason is I’ve been focusing my efforts 100% on business. One of the things I’ve tried to do on a weekly basis is reflect on the past week. It’s a little activity I indulge in every Sunday night.…

  • Why do photographers take pictures?

    I attended an interesting talk last night that asked a couple of questions I’ve never really considered before in terms of my own practice as a photographer. As a photographer, do you enjoy the thrill of the chase involved in finding a good picture or do you enjoy the final image more? For me, the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Finding your purpose in life

    This thought kind of follows on from this one, where I question the reliability of asking yourself to think back to when you were at your happiest. While I still think it’s near impossible to answer this question – and indeed find your purpose in life – I do think there are some questions you…