Photography




		Photography is my non verbal way of telling stories. I don’t have a huge amount of equipment - just a digital camera and two or three lenses with my favourite being the Canon 50mm f/1.8. I’m interested in the little things. A half-seen moment, the flash in an eye, a quiet mood of a day. My confidence in photography didn’t develop until later in life. Lke most fathers, mine gave me a camera and I took what I thought were artistic photographs, putting subjects slap bang in the centre, posing people and getting them to smile until their jaws hurt. Family pets were roped in for sessions that gave them every reason to want to escape and most of the pictures, if you looked carefully, could be identified as a blurred tail or a back leg.

It happens this wa y for a lot of people. One day you take a photograph and it’s not half bad. Something stirs. The next day you’re trawling the web for new ways to improve your photography and in my case, in 2002, landed on ePHOTOzine and have been shackled there ever since.

When you spend a lot of time with other photographers you begin to develop your skill and passion with a camera; maybe you learn how to use one properly, or you discover new ways of adding post productive techniques to add to a photographic narrative. In my case I moved from half competence to three quarters competence and now will do commercial work as well as series for exhibitions or a series of portraits for a particular project.

Currently there are four galleries here, so wander around and find the ones you like.