When I began my architectural education, I had more than a passing interest in photography. I bought a secondhand Olympus OM10 as my first 'proper' camera, I loved it. After being taught B&W developing and printing, photography became a hobby.
However, throughout my degree, nobody explained how I should use my camera. I spent the next decade pressing the shutter and hoping what I was seeing would be reflected in the prints and negatives. Somehow, friends would make appreciative noises when looking at my pictures, so I bumbled along. Qualification as an architect gave me the means to try various 'decent' digital cameras, thinking that they would magically improve my output ...
Roll on to 2018, and a good friend introduced me to the online photography course 'A Year with My Camera'. Emma Davies' course started from first principles, carefully explaining how the camera works and what all the dials meant. A year later, I was confidently making pictures using manual controls.
I joined Emma's camera club soon after and have loved being involved with a bunch of photographers who are gloriously supportive of each other's endeavours. Several years on, I am still developing as a photographer, exploring, developing and refining my photography. Inevitably, my architectural training shapes the way I view and make photographs.
In the summer of 2022, I gained an LRPS distinction from the Royal Photographic Society.
A photograph I made of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was shortlisted in the RIBA Photo Festival and subsequently accessioned to the RIBA Photographs Collection in the winter of 2023.
Latterly, I've been concentrating on landscape work, with a particular emphasis on trees. Alongside, Infrared, ICM, and analogue processes fascinate and inspire in equal measure.