What’s new
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Photo Book Making Resources
Here you’ll find a list of the some of the resources I have been grateful to find and make use of while learning to make my own books.
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Backstories
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Lower Gilmore Bank, Edinburgh, 2019
It’s the sort of picture I’ve always longed to be able to make – technically and compositionally appealing.
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A Longing for Distant Shores, 2015
It does seem I get inspired by bad weather. I just needed 50 seconds between squalls to get the long exposure shot, and I wasn’t getting them.
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Safe Homecomings, 2016
Thoughts of home after the uncertainty of carefully picking your way up river past sandbars and shoals.
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Time’s Arrow, 2016
There was something about the line of gravestones not just leading to the door but also taking you back in time as you walk along beside them.
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Manchester Art Gallery, 2004
As soon as I saw the negative emerge from the developer I knew I’d got something worthwhile.
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Distant Horizons, 2019
Sometimes, when you take a photograph, you know immediately what it’s about. Other times, you’re not so sure. This was one of those times.
On Seeing
The latest in a collection of writings about seeing in photography
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Material ingredients
Several years ago as we were building our new house, I was taken by the idea of recording some of the materials we used or found on the site.
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I saw the light
This year, a new camera has changed the way I take pictures. I’ll not break the habit of a lifetime – this won’t be a camera review – so this is all about how you see.
On Motivation
The latest in a collection of writings about motivation in photography
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Artist or Photographer?
Artist or photographer? A question after a talk I gave stumped me for a while, and here’s why. But is it either / or or can I be both?
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How a small edit changes a snapshot to fine art
How can one photo work as both a snapshot and as fine art with just one small edit?
On Landscapes
The latest in a collection of writings about photographing landscapes
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Ian Roper and North Crag Eliminate
How a photograph both frightened and excited me when I first saw it. Can photographs really have that sort of an impact?
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How a small edit changes a snapshot to fine art
How can one photo work as both a snapshot and as fine art with just one small edit?
