My photographic journey started when I took my first photograph at the age of six under the eagle eye of my father who was a professional photographer. The photograph was of my mother and father, the family Morris 1000, and a view of woodland behind, as a photograph it worked, early success is a great encourager. I was following in my family footsteps, my grandfather in 1895 had taken a photograph using a pinhole camera of the marshes at Bognor Regis, he was then apprenticed to the Donald Massey Photographic Studio in Bognor. I lived at Margate, I grew up in a photographic world, the family business of beach, postcard, commercial industrial, studio, school, and wedding photography. I learnt the fundamental photographic principle that any photograph is seen, taken, and then processed. For my career, I had to choose between photography and geology. I chose geology, photography becoming my “hobby” and my camera travelled with me wherever my geological career took me.
On retirement, I decided that I needed to refresh and upgrade my photographic skills and properly learn digital photography. Eight years before a friend had recommended the Open University / Royal Photographic Society Photography course, in 2019 I decided to follow his advice. I have not regretted that decision.
I will take pictures of anything that my “photographic eye” sees as having photographic potential. I am frequently drawn to the technical challenge of taking the potential picture that I envision. Increasingly I am getting extremely interested in the power, flexibility, and potential artistic aspects of modern digital photographic processing. If asked which type of photography I am most interested in, I look at the distribution of what I take and will say “people”, “street photography” and “cityscape” closely followed by “landscape”, “seascape” and “nature”. I hope you enjoy the images that I am showing here.