Photographs

• Trees
• Shapes
• Rocks
• Shadows
• Reflections
• Train shed roofs
• The Sky

Some years ago, while I was on a short holiday in Belgium, I happened to be standing in the Grand Place in Brussels looking up at that fine Town Hall building - or perhaps it was the house of the Dukes of Brabant? I automatically pulled out my camera to take a photograph but stopped when I became aware that there were twenty or thirty Japanese or Chinese tourists on my left hand side taking the self same photograph. And, what's more, there were twenty or thirty Japanese or Chinese (they might have even been American) tourists on my right hand side doing the same.

So I didn't take my photograph. I looked around the square and saw a large number of crowd barriers all stacked together - a much more interesting photograph, I thought. I walked to the barriers and, while everyone else was taking the same photograph of an admittedly interesting building, I took a photograph of the barriers. This is my purpose in life, I thought.

I skipped away happy with my decision.

The photographs on show on these webpages are not photographs of the whole of things, they are (at least I try to make them) photographs of parts of things.

Sadly, the photograph of the stack of crowd barriers didn't turn out to be very exciting. It was crap!