Saw this building in Cardiff, it reminded me in a way of middle America.

Justice Building at Spinningfields in Manchester, this area has undergone major re development resulting in a really pleasant cosmopolitan area of cafés, bars and outdoor screen for summer.

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This was a multiple exposure shot, taken with my holga. It's one of my favourite shots to date as it encompasses everything I was trying to achieve during my degree. I intend to do a series of multi-layered shots this year.

A different take on the Cornerhouse Cinema/Galler/Cafe/bar place in Manchester.

This was taken as part of an exercise for college, to show shallow depth of field. Meg just sat their unperturbed (and pretending to sleep) as I snapped away.

This was taken on my backpacking trip across the US. I took the ever clichéd boat trip across San Francisco bay, around Alcatraz and snapped this on the way back. Found the negatives a few months back.

This is my favourite portrait to date. It was taken quite candidly at a flickr meet of Rachael. I just love how natural everything is from the lighting to the pose.

Action shot of Meg. This was using an old manual 135mm lens I inherited from my dad, the clash of manual and digital/electronic equipment seems to give all the photos taken with it, a wonderfully shallow depth of field.

Zen, peace, tranquillity.

Ducks at Lyme Park, Cheshire.

This was taken during my backpacking trip across the US. I loved the clichéd retro look of the diner, to me it was "typically American", I guess the same way people view the queen and red phone boxes. I also loved the reflections of the surroundings of the foliage, creating a patterned effect.

This is outside the Royal Exchange in Manchester City Centre. It reminds me of Parisian Café.

This is probably my favourite 'street photograph', taken candidly at the Protests against Scientology in Feb 2008. The protesters wore masks and various other disguises to protect their identity for fear of retaliation.

New Islington Urban Folk Festival - Although there was plenty of colour in this scene, I think black & white makes the sky look far more dramatic.

This was taken at the Bonfire Night Fun Fair, held at Buile Hill Park in Salford. I didn't have a tripod with me so this was taken handheld - but due to the whole fair area being so lit up I didn't have to compromise too much, managing to keep the ISO down to 400. This was my favourite shot of the whole night.

I recently bought a Holga, I've been having fun experimenting with the option of multiple exposures

This was taken in a local park, I really love the ghost-like quality of the branches.


The camera also gives a nice vignetting effect as seen in this shot of Meg.

Taken on Mosley Street in Manchester, one of my first & favourite street shots, it could almost pass for 1970's NY (if you squint hard enough!), was taken with a camera phone, but I kinda like the grainy quality it has..

This one was taken from our back yard, the sunset was producing the red colour on the back of the houses, so I took several shots varying composition and trying to get the foreground as black as possible.
This shot along with the one below was shortlisted for Salford Photography Competition and both were printed onto canvas and displayed in the tourist information centre inside The Lowry, which was cool (apart from the printers going out of their way apparently to lighten the black area of the above image making it look less impressive/contrasting imo)... although I didn't win a prize, all the short listed entrants got to keep the canvas prints of their photos, which will make a couple of nice Christmas presents for my family.



This is the other image chosen, it was taken at the Flickr Manchester Group's Salford Quays meet up, and was taken on a whim rather than carefully composed and taken.. and that's how I like it.

This was taken somewhere is Pennsylvania, possibly near Westchester. February 2005 we went over to NY/PA and hung out with some friends for a few days who showed us the sights, I took this as I have a love of .. American stuff, gas stations, diners etc...

A camera-phone photo - Oh The Shame! This was taken waiting for the bus, after going out on NYE 2005. We were waiting for the bus/taxi on Salford Crescent and I remember Ant being worried about me having my phone out..

Taken in August 2001 somewhere in New York. I can't remember where, partly because I don't remember taking the photo. On my trip to America that summer (for 1 month, solo) I took 24 rolls of film, and by the time I got this one developed I really could not remember taking it, but it's still one of my all time favourites, even though this scan isn't great quality.

Taken opposite Salford Central train station, on what I think was my first flickr meet, I love the way the reflections in the windows look like they've been taken in black & white (no editing on this picture).

This is one of my favourite photos I've taken. It was on a road running through the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, surrounded by salt lakes on either side, that make the water appear red. What you can't see is that behind me is around 200 tourists from the multiple coaches parked up all taking photos. Mainly inspired by Robert Frank's U.S. 285, New Mexico