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GALLERIES

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LATEST

This gallery is where I post my newest images and a few others that may be older but are new to this website.

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INTO the WILD

Wild once meant not only untamed but fierce, savage, godforsaken, scary and ugly.

Now we rightly venerate the wild as something beautiful to be conserved.

It represents a diminishing chance for us to reconnect with our natural roots.

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CREATIONS

Everything in this gallery was conceived by a human mind and formed by hands. Wind, rain and the passage of feet or hands have subsequently left their mark.

To me there's a beauty in the way that these forces gently distress buildings or other human artifacts.

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BEAUTY

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know"

John Keats

It is this deeper meaning of beauty that I aspire for in my images, a quality that demands and holds your attention.

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MYSTERY

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

I like to confound, surprise and intrigue the viewer by playing with scale, lighting and composition.

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SIMPLICITY

"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."

Albert Einstein

Simplicity, clarity and economy of line are things that I strive for.

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SIGNS of LIFE

The bare bones of our planet would be of little interest without the counterpoint provided by the diverse and infinitely beautiful forms that life brings to Earth.

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TIME

Light's equal partner in photography is time:

Geological time, historical time, seasonal time or the diurnal time represented by the"golden hour".

And the time invested by the photographer.

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EBB and FLOW

The landscape owes much to water in all of its forms.

Mountains and valleys have been shaped by ice and rivers.
Seas have revealed the coastline and rain has given life to the land.

And let us not forget clouds:
how poor the sky would be without the moods that they engender.

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Autumn

One last party of colour before winter's drab cold descends.

Turning leaves, twisting in the brisk air... Autumn leaves not in sombre widow's weeds but exuberant with saturation.

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Bare Bones

The roots of the planet’s crust are hidden, an opaque impenetrable volume.

Our only evidence of what lies there is its surface. Occasionally the bare bones are exposed; rock weathered rough or smooth, filmed with lichens or algae.

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Winter

In winter, water's transformation from liquid to solid completely changes how we view the landscape.

Snow simplifies and mystifies; trees and rocks are stripped back to edges defined by spare strokes. Ice forms fernlike crystals and sinuous blue forms.

A time of magic

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