Floods

These were green fields. In february the rain was so bad that they were covered in water. It happens in Suffolk in an area that is not prone to flooding. I shot this image for it's pictorial value. My thoughts were with the rest of the U.K. at the time and with Pakistan today

Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

It's summer, the sun is out, it's warm, people of every size and shape are swimming sunbathing or just strolling. Life is wonderfall? so long as you don't let 'them' get you down.

London, the River Thames

A trip to London from my home in Suffolk, ment I walked around the town where I used to work many years ago. I remember the mini skirts and boutiques in Chelsea, the buskers on the streets, the crowds in Oxford street, tourists everywhere, the pace of life seemed fast, it seems a lot faster now.

Most cities are the same, fun to work in when your young. As you get older you relise the cost in travel, stress and the cost of running a business in town.

The wonder of computers. A few years ago to obtain a result like this would mean you process a colour transparency as a colour negative film. Then you print it. Many professional photographers did not have the processing equipment to do this, or the inclination. Or the creative ablity to visualize the finished result. Of course todays image maker still needs this creative ablity. Even if they are using photography, paint (oil or acrylic), coloured pencil, watercolur or even molten pigmentted beeswax.
The original photograph was taken at Lowstoft, Suffolk and the background was cleaned up with photoshop. For the second photograph the invert button was used with slight coloue adjustment.

Strolling through Oxford, I saw this busker. People were everywhere, but not where I wanted them. I tried long & short exposures through a long lens but I was aware that nothing was working for me. So I visualized the images around the player that I could manipulate to get the affect of movement using our old friend photoshop.
Like so many images we make, you have to visualize it first

I can't get away from fish

My love for fresh fish and chips, draws me to the coastal towns of Aldburgh and Southwold in my home county of Suffolk. This image of a hut in Southwold caught my eye as an image I could manipulate in photoshop. No people just fish!