It Starts Here

Hello there and welcome to my new site. Some of my photos needed a new home. They asked me, politely, if they might be separated from the malaise of random social media posts, the politics, the memes, the selfies and the ads. If I could find them a quiet, unobtrusive place to rest and grow and await the online wayfarer’s roaming eye. I obliged and built this for them. A simple space to house my favourite images and attempt to develop and crystallise a unique voice and style. The first brave pioneers to ‘go West’ and attempt to eke out an existence in this pale, minimalist expanse of barren online land are photos which I have come back to over the months and years and which have garnered a bit more attention, among family friends and the odd stranger, than others. It’s currently a small collection of shots taken mainly with my phone and my drone and, only very recently, my first ‘real’ camera. Having upgraded both my equipment and my editing tools to make a more determined foray into the realms of photography, I think this is as good a time as any to start a photo blog.

I’ll try and post at least one image or collection of images a week, with a few accompanying thoughts, musings or details. I’ll endeavor to keep the word salad to a minimum (How’s that going so far?) and let the focus instead fall on the crunchy photo croutons. I hope you enjoy my photos and feel free to comment on them, to offer suggestions and advice, both on the images and the blog itself. Please be kind, I’m obviously not a professional and although I’ve taken many photos over many years, I feel like I’m just setting out on my journey. Let’s see where it takes me and who I meet along the way.