My images are made by combining my skills to make an image in my style. Many of the them are still life, using objects that are around me to make pictures, others are environmental, if I can’t put part of me into an image then it’s not as enjoyable. I find natural history and record photography more difficult as they have definite boundaries. I prefer to push boundaries to make something different.
I’m an active member of Southport Photographic Society & West Lancs AV Group. These clubs help develop photography in many ways, you get to share your passion for photography with other like minded people. I also enter national & international competitions. Sharing this art form with others is a very important, we all look at an subject from different angles. I am now starting to give something back by giving lectures at camera clubs and judging club competitions.
Having the exhibition has given me the chance to use images that I wouldn’t put in Club Competitions and expand my own boundaries toward the more artistic image. The Gormley men inspired me to make several images, some of which you can see in the exhibition. The Head images in all their forms, started by a simple reflection that I had accepted in Southport Open Exhibition I used these to explore emotions in combination with my love of Science Fiction. I never plan an image, they have a starting point and eventually a final click of the mouse. Each one takes it’s own path as the inspiration for that image takes me. Once an image is complete I rarely change it. I hope some of the images here bring back a memory or make you consider their meaning, it’s important to me that the work here makes people think.