A 'good' photographer
19/03/2023
What is good photography? What is good art? Can it be measured at all?
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Occasionally I feel the urge to write something. It can be about whatever strikes me at that moment.
Essays
Earth Day: passing on the love
22/04/2021
On this 51st birthday of Earth Day and the 2nd birthday of Nature First, the alliance for responsible nature photography, I look back on how my reverance for nature was passed on to me by my p...
The Violence of Spring
30/03/2021
The soft tender colours and textures that we associate with spring, lead us to believe that the season emerges gently, softly. In reality, the world is filled with a sense of urgency to grow a...
The Craziness
07/01/2021
What happened to my beliefs in the innate goodness of people? Was it just youthful naivety What's going on? Is there still hope?
Photography and Reality
22/10/2020
My morning view today is of phragmite plumes, backlit by the sun, moving in the breeze, and sparkling gold and silver from the dew. Against the darkness of the newly ploughed field behind my ...
Fight the Good Fight
10/09/2020
There are moments, these days, that I don’t understand where I can go to get the energy and motivation to stay open to world developments on so many different fronts. It’s dizzying. So mu...
When Will It End?
02/04/2020
These days, life is about finding and keeping one’s balance in the face of a constantly changing reality.
Algorithms and Us
19/03/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated our social lives and has forced people to seek comfort, affection, and freedom from boredom via social media. Is this true or is it something that Fac...
Nature versus Photography?
02/03/2020
What do I mean by that? How could those be opposing interests? A nature photographer like myself celebrates nature, we aren’t out there to harm it. I’ve felt at home in and connected to n...