2019 photography review

The scaling back that I’d intended for 2018 finally took place in 2019. It’s by far the most important and polarising year for me personally.

I gained a couple of interesting clients that I’m really pleased to be working with. I spent more of my free time up north in Scotland and Yorkshire photographing glass houses and coast lines. For the first time in what feels like a decade I’ve been able to stop the ‘monkey brain’ noise in my head and live at a different pace, allowing me to look more objectively at what I want to do with my creative output.

I’ve been looking back at my favourite pictures since 2009. 10 years ago I was fully immersed in Flickr, but this year I’ve surrended by Pro account. It’s sad to think the site may not survive.

These photographs are some of my favourites taken with Olympus Trip 35, Canon AE-1, Konica C35 and a Canon 6D.  

I feel open to new projects, but I just don’t know what all of them are yet.

Go here for 2018, 2017, 2016,  2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.

Glass house, Edinburgh

Old mirror

West Norwood Cemetery

Scottish rain

James in ferns, Yorkshire

Ted, home

Washing line, Haworth

Garden

Little chicken

Roof in the rosemary

Truth, Leeds

Reflection, Edinburgh

Allotment, Crowborough

Edinburgh

Midwinter

On the phone, north Yorkshire

Over 10 years

Greenhouses and plastic

I often blog on a bank holiday. There's nothing sweeter than a cosy bank holiday when you feel like you've earned a day to be lazy. This is the first day I've truly stopped moving for months.

Fantastic Plastic: In exciting news, Lomography have given me a Diana F+ camera to use and take pictures with! I am really thrilled to be asked.  The greatest thing about this is that I've managed to get through two 'vintage' Dianas in the last 15 years (Ebay and vintage shop finds) but this Lomography one is slightly more robust and has a flash. It's been raining almost every day since it arrived so it may have to come to Italy with me in a few weeks.

Not Fantastic Plastic: I've published a new series called 1000 years. I began taking pictures of helium balloons trapped in trees after their majestic prime. It's slowly growing to include other plastic items which end up becoming intertwined (un)comfortably with nature. Where possible I've picking them up and keeping them in my shed. It's amazing where you'll find balloons. A couple of times recently I've watched them fall slowly and aimlessly down from the sky. This happened on Friday night. It's lucky when humans are around to pick them up. Not so lucky for livestock and the rivers and oceans out there.

I've spent a lot of time in greenhouses and gardens lately so here's a bunch of pictures of the hottest summer in a long time. I took most of these on cinestill film. Autumn now please!