Articles reflecting on what motivates us to create photographic images.
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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?
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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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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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Denis Thorpe and Hebden Bridge
How a black and white picture of Hebden Bridge by Denis Thorpe in the Guardian in 1978 still influences how I take photographs today.
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Contract or assumption: what do I owe the viewer?
Is it realistic to expect a photographer to concern himself with his viewers expectation about the nature of photography?
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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.
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Pose questions, don’t provide answers
In a blink this book by Henry Carroll, apparently for beginners, with pages of detail on how to choose shutter speeds and apertures resolved how I should be taking photographs for maximum impact.
