I’ve been ticking over my mind in the background about something to concentrate on as a project for SoFoBoMo in April. I was concerned that 35 images of what, in all likelihood, would end up being flowers may get a little repetitive rather than cohesive. I also cringed at the prospect of having to apply […]

No, I don‚Äôt mean asking people in the street if you can take their picture‚Ķ I was wondering if the chicken came before the egg. Do we see a subject as a finished picture, and work out what approach we need to take to make that picture? Or, do we have a fairly standard approach, […]

Would we be doing things any differently if we were to view our current work as some sort of practice? Like Zen in the Art of Archery ‚Äì where as much painstaking attention is paid to breathing and holding the bow, as actually trying to hit the target ‚Äì in fact the target is inconsequential […]

When I try to plan a project, I find myself visualising the result as finished photographs. Unfortunately, I can only visualise photogaphs that look like photographs already taken. This means that I’m trying to plan a project to make a set of photographs that are essentially trying to be like someone else’s. I’m pretty sure […]

I always lamented the idea of narrowing yourself down to a single subject. I felt strongly that photography didn’t necessarily have to be about the subject – that you could make pictures with whatever is in front of you at any given time, and the result would depend on your artistic ability. But (of course […]

Ugh. It seems to creep into every area of my life, not least of all photography. I always seem to find myself coming up against a deadline of something like christmas to do one of those things I’d always said I was going to get around to, like making a calendar, or framing some prints […]