Welcome, and thank you for visiting my photography journal.

First, a big thank you to my good friend Charlie Cai, who originally built this website for me. I am fairly hopeless with the detail of modern technology and Charlie has been my saviour on many occasions over the years.

This is not a professional photography website and I have nothing to sell. It is simply a journal of my progress and experimentation as an amateur photographer.

The gallery is organised broadly chronologically rather than by subject, with the more recent folders appearing first. There are probably too many photographs, but that is partly the nature of a journal: it records the journey rather than presenting only a small portfolio of finished work.

My photography inevitably reflects where I have lived. I was born by the sea and remain drawn to beaches and seascapes; I grew up in an industrial town in the North East of England and still find heavy industry and machinery fascinating; and many years living in rural Yorkshire have taught me to appreciate the photographic possibilities on my doorstep.

I first became interested in photography in the mid-1970s, when affordable Japanese SLR cameras were beginning to appear. I bought one, built a small darkroom and learned the basics of the craft. Career and family subsequently intervened and photography became increasingly sporadic, but the interest never disappeared. Digital photography eventually brought me back.

More recently I have become increasingly interested in experimentation. Alongside conventional photographs, you will find intentional camera movement (ICM), multiple exposures (ME), and combinations of the two. I particularly enjoy trying to create the image in the camera rather than afterwards on a computer. Most of the photographs here therefore involve relatively little post-processing. If an image cannot survive with a few basic adjustments, I tend to regard it as not quite good enough.

My philosophy of photography is fairly simple. Photography is a wonderful complement to walking: it makes you look more carefully at what you are wandering through. I enjoy the process of working out how an image can be made as much as the finished photograph itself. And if some of these photographs preserve a memory, prompt a thought or simply make someone stop and look for a moment, they have served their purpose.

So please treat the website for what it is: the continuing journal of an amateur photographer. I hope you find a few photographs that you enjoy.