These 100 photos where taken with three types of iphone and a couple of them have some post editing to bring out certain features or moods i.e. retroactive sepia filters. Photos also occassionally contain things like feet that look like they are accidently there but are infact a study in the real.
1) The Bridge Into NoWhere
This piece was one of my first experiments with camera phone night photography and was taken with no tripod but a steady surface back in Aug 2019
2) The Boundary
This spooky setting was another experiement with low light levels, this is the mist from the sea caught in the light at night. It was very atmospheric and I am pleased to have captured the feel of the walk at Steeple Bay in Essex. I had no steady surface so could not do a long low light level capture butI am still please with it.
3) Golden Sun Tiles
These tiles where in the bathroom at a venue in Birmingham – when I say the interplay of light and textures I felt I had to try and capture it! I always worry people will think I am weird taking photos of pulic toliet walls! But I think it was worth it!
4) The Door To Antiquity
This photo has had a sepia filter and some digital tidying up done to it. It is a door to I think Marlin School in Stroud Gloucestershire. I found it whilst following the otters I woefully failed to photograph.
5) The Lost Hut Hidding
I found ths little hut disappearing into the undergrowth in Stroud – photo is taken from a pedestrian bridge near by. I love finding little lost worlds like this.
6) Castle Reservoir
This photo was hard to take due to the large wall and no entry gate etc… in the way but I managed the best shot I could being only 5 ft. This is also the phone photo but I did take other photos using my actual camera but these images were all at the time just bases for other art works to be made. We tracked this place down from my remembering of the name Pondsticketh and childhood memories.
7) Metal Giant Laid Low
We came across this tangel of metal – the remains of a pylon whilst trying to avoid a large wild fire that had changed direction in the wind on the Breacon Beacons. We stopped to get barings and I snaped this out of the window with the phone. I loved the shapes and the colour but did not stop for a proper study as that is a dum way to die!
8) An Oxford Arting
I loved the juxtaposition of this graffittied underpass on the outskirts of Oxford with its modern concrete practicality to the frothy ornate stone buildings that house art galleries and museums in Oxford itself.
9) Tower of Learning
This green spired tower caught my eye in Basildon. It is a piece of modern archetecture and yet it immitates the medival towers with its arch ways, it sites before a paved forecourt which contains diagrams and maps. The weather was bright and sunny but icy bitter which somehow just added to it!
10) The Excetionally Unexceptional
This was the Royal Fort Gardens atthe University of Bristol and it seemed to me to contain layers of art and nature and structure and buearocracy with the wooden sculpture being a natural substance forced into the rigid angular columns sitting in a lovely slightly unrurally garden infront of a baige brick building that looked to contain offices!
11) Street Turtles
These wounderful pieces of street art were in Bristol and as a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a child I just could not resist their charm! These is a typeof street art or griffitti that I have a special soft spot for where they take some part of the infrastructure, a feature already there and highlight it in a delightful way.
12) Canal Secret Decay
This quiet forgotten seeming spot is part of the canal network in Bristol actually near the water taxi stop but it just seemed so quiet and lost almost post apocalyptic. I love this kind of den in the wilderness aestetic. I actually only found this as I desperately needing to sit down as they had closed the other end of the tow path leaving only horrendously steep steps that neither me on my crutches or the wheel chair user or the mobility scooter could deal with so I had had to walk all the way back and had to sit and was like 2 hrs late for what I was trying to get too! But it did offer up some wonderful photo oppurtinities.
13) Leaf Heart Beat Street
This leaf was a seradipadus find! It’s wonderful autumn colours and heart shape seemed to contrast with the pavement it was on. Taken in College Green in Bristol.
14) Ruined Commerse
I have spent a good few years making a bit of a study of these buildings around Bristol and this one in particular I have many photos of – I particularly like this one as I feel it caputured both the granduer of the building and the decay and the lighting somehow just emphasised it!
15) Hidden Worlds of Decay
This circular window through the boarding around this petrol station in Bristol created the perfect framing for the decay and wildlife reclaiming occuring within. Again this is a structure I have spent years studying. Out of respect for those who have had to make it their home there are less photos of this structure than many others of the others I regularlly photograph in the area. Infact I am pretty sure the whole reason for the boarding was to stop the homeless camping there.
16) Tropical Fort Not
This exotic looking place is actually just Bristol but I love the feel that the Pirate Court may once have met there and I mean Bristol does have all the smuggler caves and what not – that sounds piratical to me! The striated clouds particularly made the image for me and I was so lucky to be in the right place at the right time to be able to take this photo.
17) Hollow Buildings
This building I think was actually on the edge of being demolished – it just seemed so forlorn I felt I needed to take a photo to somehow preserve it. These spaces inbetween are a somehow other worldly and I am drawn to them.
18) Metal Bark
The bark patterning was what originally caught my eye, the textures and colours and remnants of graffitti and then I noticed the large rusty nail being consumed by the tree. It was a hurt disrespected tree that had somehow fought back the industralisation around it. Redcliff Bristol UK.