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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Piemme, Bologna, 2006
I remember feeling quite overwhelmed by the blue and didn’t really notice anything else for a while. I knew I had to take this photograph.
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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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Chad! No! Manchester, 2012
“But it’s just a picture of a wall!” It’s also a picture of ambition moderated by pragmatism, of nostalgia, of seeing how things were, how things are now and how they got there.
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Wrong end of the telescope, 2019
You get the telescope out to try and see more clearly but it doesn’t help. It’s the wrong way round. And they’re getting further away.
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The Farnes, 2019
Going back through my pictures, I’ve been finding it far easier to identify interesting monochrome images to document rather than colour ones. Better? Or just different?
On Seeing
The latest in a collection of writings about seeing in photography
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How do you title your pictures?
Do you need to tell people what your photograph is about? As ever it all depends on circumstances – what does your audience need to make the most of your images?
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Simplify, simplify! Pictures with impact
One of the hardest lessons to learn in photography is how to leave things out. Here’s how to simplify your pictures.
On Motivation
The latest in a collection of writings about motivation in photography
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Backstory | Books | Motivation
The Heron Wood, 2020 an intuitive project
Is your photography thought-through or more intuitive? Do your pictures depend on your experience or do you just go exploring?
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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?
On Landscapes
The latest in a collection of writings about photographing landscapes
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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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Don’t ask me about my camera settings
When you start out it sometimes feels like other photographers are deliberately hiding the details of their craft from you. It takes a little time to realise that the most important feature of the camera is the viewfinder.
