About

I’m a photographer based in north-west England – north Lancashire exactly – mainly shooting and writing about aspects of the UK as I travel round it.

It’s not my day job, which means I can focus on the scenes and places that interest me without having to worry about whether it’s commercially viable. And those interests mainly lie in unusual landscapes, seascapes and architectural heritage, as well as desolation and dereliction. You’re as likely to find me exploring a vast industrial wasteland as sitting by the sea catching a sunset.

That’s the Photographer and Adventurer in me. As for the Dreamer, in an increasingly jarring world I find losing myself in photography somewhere keeps me calm, pondering the past, daydreaming about the future. Maybe I’ve always felt like an outsider looking in, so to put my often unconventional subjects within the viewfinder at least gives me the role of storyteller, driving the narrative. In my mind I’m often creating the soundtrack to a movie nobody will ever make…

A few years back somebody described me as ‘quite counterculture’, which having looked up I’ll take as the compliment I think it was meant to be.

There’s something intriguing about abandoned places, walking in the shadows of a once great past fallen silent. Everything is transient and you might be the last person to see and photograph something that isn’t here tomorrow.

I think it’s that that connects with my interest in architecture and how it holds together the society of the past and the present. Anything with an interesting back story fascinates me and I try to read the landscape – be it built up, abandoned or natural – and convey that vision through my words and photographs.

I shoot with a Canon EoS 6D, have done for quite a while now, and I very much enjoyed sending my drone up on the rare occasions I used it. Sadly I’m not the greatest pilot and in  2023 I lost my third Mavic Mini after it was mobbed by a swarm of pigeons and hurtled in to the River Don. At present I have no plans to invest in a fourth one…

I have done a bit of photography work with the construction sector and on a number of occasions been persuaded to give talks to groups and societies, something I would probably do again if somebody with an interest approached me. I’ve also been interviewed and featured in a number of regional titles in the UK as well as US entertainment giant Vice.com. Just for the fun of it. I normally prefer the shadows.

Take a look around while you’re here – there are many galleries to browse and various blog posts that go in to more details about some of the places I’ve been. And feel free to get in touch if you like.

Thanks for stopping by. 🙂