I built this site to share some of the photographs I've taken. I'm by no means a great photographer, but I love making pictures, and I'm trying hard to improve. Part of my motivation for showing these pictures (flawed though they are), is that people who are better photographers than me might be able to criticise (constructively, I hope!) and help me improve. Please feel free to comment plentifully! My other motivation is just that I like sharing beautiful things with other people.
All of the pictures here were taken with one of three cameras.
These days I tend to use Apple's Aperture for cataloguing and manipulating the photographs. The photographs and their accompanying information are pulled automatically from Flickr using flogr. I don't display all my Flickr photographs here, only the ones I'm most proud of. I do this by tagging them with 'photoblog', and setting flogr to only import images tagged in this way.
It's a Creative Commons license. Click the icon to view the terms under which the images can be used. I wanted actively to invite people to use my images as long as they are for non-commercial use. Of course, if you want them for commercial use, do get it touch and we can come to some arrangement. I would certainly welcome the money!
It's a line from a song called "Orpheus" by David Sylvian:
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide
There's a beauty here I cannot deny
So that's why. The feather in the banner is because I love feathers and think that they are outstandingly lovely objects.