Hp5 - 150mm f/5.6 Cambo. 

Nikon F3, 28mm - Kodak HIE (High Speed Infrared) Exposed at 200 ISO - Developed in Ilford ID-11 for 9.45 mins @ 20 degrees.

Journey with Callum Stubbs - Route though Crib Goch.

Clusk, Boyce, Davidson, all the DJ's, Producers, Technicians and crew members put on the first Ugly Duckling Event in Cheltenham at the Swan. The show was in support of Mind Charity and by 7pm was sold out and reached capacity for the venue which was 350 people. The Bar made £10,500 from the whole event, Everything went very smoothly and was a very successful night. 

What I loved was the fact that it started off with HipHop locals, Farai, Sketchster, Catchy P, with Liam Boyce Djing for them. These HipHoppers are part of a nine man group that I have become quite close with through photography in the years past. This event was the first for about a year since I last saw them perform. The fact that they come out and put on events motivates me to capture it for them so that they are getting photographs that they will be happy with. Most of the crew are quite uncomfortable with getting actual portraits and allowing the photographer up close and in their face, but because I have built that connection with them I have full access, enabling me to move freely and to try and be creative with their images.

Clusk is one of many DJ's I have met in the years I have been in Cheltenham, He started during lockdown and has committed himself since making one of the most eclectic DnB DJ's I know. He brings a very fresh style to the local scene, he has a focused mind on the decks and hates making mistakes, showing me that he has a passion through his perfectionist attitude. He takes it seriously and comes across as a very professional guy. This is his first event that he has created, it has all been in support of good causes such as MIND MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY, The SWAN, Local Business etc. This motivated attitude towards creating events for the people around us is something I recognise as an important value to have when it comes to the music scene but also life in general. Klusk is actively working towards another event in April. 

Alex and Chez, 19 years old, holding down public events with 350 people plus is inspirational and shows that this field/ world isn't too saturated at the moment. Together they are a really lively duo who the local scene love. Fresh sounds and confident attitudes towards the game. 

I have re scanned one of my favorite images ever taken in High Wycombe back in 2017. It depicts the West Wycombe Estate in the background, West Wycombe Village in the mid-ground and taken from where I was stood which is the monument on top of the Hell Fire Caves.

guys doing guy stuff. This day was about a week before summer solstice 2022. The weather was perfect all day and all night. We decided to camp on Leckhampton hill. Jack had just got married and we were all in good spirits. We had a nice fire throughout the night and some mad views to look at if we wanted to wonder off at any point.

We stayed up all night and sat on the edge of the hill waiting for the sunrise. It was perfect, extremely warm, you could look at the sun for a few minutes whilst it was low and cold in the sky, and after experiencing the sin rise for an hour or so and giving thanks to everyone around etc. I wondered off up the hills and explored every little path and went off track too. I found tones of wild orchids and flowers I had never seen in my life. some of the most beautiful, plants just naturally sat there, and the land where I was walking seemed completely untouched by man for years. It was just wild and overrun by the animals and insects all around, I was right in the middle of the meadow smelling all the sweet smells, hearing all the types of buzzes wiz by, seeing the morning dew form and drip off of wild orchids and the sap from certain trees filled the air every now and then. 

This is why I love the Cotswolds, It has a beauty that is to be discovered. on the surface it can seem like an ordinary park of the UK, but when you look more and have a bit of knowledge of what you are looking at then this environment shows you how alive nature really is, how it smells and how pure parts of it still are, there is wilderness its just at a smaller scale these days. look closer, get closer and be patient with the process.

The Whole Picture // The Whole Frame


The idea that a singular photograph can encapsulate subjective reality.
Generally speaking within documentary disciplines, a photographer; specifically a photojournalist is aiming to capture objective reality just as it is in front of them, to document parts of the world, generally this type of photographer is focused on telling the truth as best they can, the more details and information presented with the images the more of a picture or narrative of the actual reality you are able to put together, the photojournalist would be primarily creating work for news and publication organisations. But documentary can literally be implemented into any moment in life, you can document cultural events, people at work, your friends and family or yourself, the landscape, objects, absolutely anything and be able to create a representation of those places or people of thing across time. So I guess the documentary photographer has a lot of freedom within their perspective and access to the world so where is the point where the lines blur between straight objective photography and into subjective interpretation and expression of oneself rather then the outside world?
My understanding is that all photography can be viewed through any lens or from any perspective, I guess there is certain niches such as photojournalism and forensic photography that are considered truthful especially because they are used for piecing together objective reality and usually the photographer is highly qualified and has a good reputation from being real. But even still people are capable of wrong even in a serious context. As we know there have been major lies created and run by the BBC and other ‘official’ broadcasting services throughout the past 60 years, The Golf of Tonkin for example or WMD’s in Afghanistan, big stories that were fuelled by big media and behind that a whole casmn of happenings, movement of power and money across the globe, projects that will go unheard of for 100 years. There is most certainly a narrative that presented to the world and the past few years, and we can see behind the veil more than ever these days. The truth a lot of the time is what a lot of companies and media services are manufacturing, to create narrative and to construct a reality to get people invested and to ultimately hijack their sense of order in the world and to eventually hijack their identity, their power and ability to think for themselves, because people that think and question things get in the way and disrupt the stream of their ways of keeping oder at bay.
I find it hard critiquing the system and cultures legitimacy, and I feel I do not do any favours to myself but I know that I am capable of going against the grain, against the law to enjoy life and a lot of people do and they work and live in every avenue in life, it’s just how the human condition is, and god we are in a good position globally at the moment, we for sure have come out of hell as a civilisation and into a magical time period of abundance in which myself can walk freely anywhere and meet very little conflict.
So when is the photographer an artist? and what does it mean to focus on the inner eye?
The inner world for me is visual, I piece narrative together through imagination and through thinking to myself. In here is where you can create anything, you can explore endless energy and thought, you can link other reality into your own perspective and understandings of things. And through abstraction we can represent the things we see, what we mean and what we want to say or feel. Music is a good point of focus as through using words to express emotion and meaning the artist creates a subjective thread of consciousness in which the viewer can latch into and explore through their own perspective. And some of the best writers and performers such as Bob Dylan are so vague in their words, they speak in abstraction, that I guess the songs are open to many many interpretations. When listening or viewing good art then the viewer will have sparks of thought and ideas, there is so many different types of art and all types of people are attracted to things uniquely. And that is the beauty of it, art is like a catalyst into the mind, a doorway into endless possibility.


Everything you do can be a work of art. To be attentive in the everyday things, everything can be a work of art. Nature itself,






is mostly tying to say as much as possible through each frame, trying to abstract the meaning of reality as it is found into a single moment, specifically to show the truth, . I feel this idea is true for me, the more meaning, the more information that links to the outside world from within the frame that there is, then the situation can be articulated into a clearer picture in our minds eye of how the world is found here on out.
To protect the historical elements of the world, the core human values, that are increasingly becoming a blur as a result of the human conditioning and progress into artificial reality. It seems tempting to want more electronics, better and faster devices and more technology to aid civilisation through laborious work and through cognitive and mathematical problems. There is no doubt in my mind that these fields are here to stay and to be expanded upon, the threat of destroying the planet, ecosystems and the human spirit do not halt this progression and desire to transcend our current capabilities into things beyond our comprehension. But it does worry me as I feel what is really happening is not people being able to have more free time and more time to think introspectively about the world but to use and abuse people more, by not only just having their devices always connected to the grid, but also their minds, their complete attention. People are already working for free for these social media companies, by programming it with every search and every click, we are helping write the algorithms for AI day by day. Consequently by giving away our information through using these channels and devices, we are being understood by the companies and eventually AI how we think, what we are tempted by, what we desire, who we want to speak to, where to go. It will all be controlled somehow and these huge companies are also connected to the world wide grid of everything else communicating to each other. We are trapping ourselves through giving away our time and power to things that are made to take away our attention from the objective world but because of that we are taking time and attention away from deep thought and time with simply our own minds, with no interruptions just breath and the flow of consciousness, in which we find reality as it always has been, where we live and see and feel one another and our own values and meaning.
If we do not give the time to ourselves and articulate our thoughts and meaning in life, then things we do not understand will always get at us, we can not grow cognitively and can not progress spiritually as this is a process, it is a pattern of opening ideas and going into places that are to be explored by only yourself.
One of the real wonders of life to me is that I am here to experience life in a way that no one else possibly can, I will see things that no one has ever seen before and will never see again, it’s all here for me to interact with, absolute magic, the individual perspective, yet you are experiencing the same thing too. But I can only speak for myself.


So Photography to me is about acquiring a deeper insight into life, so that when I have my camera to hand I can recognise moments that are meaningful so that I can say something about how I see the world and how I interact with it. There is a profound sense that only a few people have that I have ever met and it is the ability to be so sensitive to being in any given moment, and within those moments to be able to extrapolate photographs that say just what was thought, understood or felt, or to simply observe from within a completely non partisan perspective, to simply see more and to be more. I feel I need to do this because life is hard and things will sure get the better of me unless I understand the values that transcend the confining parts of us.




Photography: The Antidote To Chaos.


All art aspires to the condition of music. - Walter Pater.
A portrait photograph is reassurance to the photographer that they are trusted by the person in frame.
Photographing people is one of the hardest tasks to get a full image of someone. A proper portrait should capture someones shadow, or have an expression of the inner and outer world in some form. This could be through the use of shadow or through layers or composition of the subject in relation to the surroundings and the shapes and forms in the abstract frame on the negative.
To me Photography is an abstract art, I’m taking small light sensitive images on a thin piece of film and then printing onto a flat surface (paper)… So from reality to photograph, there is quite a difference. ultimately it is experience turned into object. Yet the photograph is still as close as we will get to replicating objective reality, and we have pretty much documented ever corner of the surface of our planet this way. In many objective ways there is not much left to explore or to discover at the macro scale. A lot of the hard work has been done already. So it is only necessary to focus inwards, into the inner world of thinking; the micro, where it all takes place, where the battlefield is fought through words and where we see through conversation, through progression of idea; likewise to a song fluctuating through build-ups and falls, we can come about moments and realisations of our understanding of theories and ideas but also become conscious of the felt presence of the moment and bring forward clearer images of reality. And if the intake is clear (meaning; being fed well, listening and reading good work) then the ideas seem to be more achievable and simpler, not as much overthinking, which I do struggle with. So I guess a good focus for me is how the body, the image of the human figure can tell a lot to me.




I am not interested in shooting new things. I am interested to see things new. - Ernst Haas.


The truth requires no belief. It is the truth.

         Thank you for sending over your photographs, Firstly it is relieving to see your work again after quite some time, it really is great to see. I will simply write what comes to mind and articulate myself a little to make it a bit interesting.
The photographs of the flora you have stumbled across along the way are really well thought out frames, the lighting is quite important throughout especially in the ones that are pulled back a bit and I can tell you have been attentive because the way you use the whole frame; But not are they just photos of plants and trees because you have a wide knowledge of the plant kingdom and you love the outside world so you really know what you are looking at… You also have a fascination with the inside world and unraveling thought and meaning even within what can seem mundane to the casual mind, to be able to look deeper into reality. 
The photograph of the beautifully sun lit Silver Birch resting near the edge of a river bed in which the river flows over the rocks in the distance towards the foreground, in what is a seemingly wild and spiky woodland, takes me back to one of my first school geography trips to Devon. I was around 8 or 9, our teacher lead us down some hills and into a shallow river, to teach us about how rivers are formed. The purpose was to walk downstream in the river and see how the stones carried by the flowing water have eroded the further away from the spring we went and to piece together how the landscape has been formed. This memory gave me a lot of meaning and fascination with geography and nature. It is this same feeling and memory when I look at this photograph, the elements in the frame are close enough to bring back the memory of one of my first realisations and gazes into natures wonder, it’s birth and wholeness, remembering how a river is born and seeing the landscape erode from the power of water over a long time. And the young Silver Birch in the foreground is the abstraction of myself maybe. Watching, looking back, interacting with everything around, I can see that moment in which you felt and maybe had a fascination with the scene or the light or the tree.         Thank you for sending over your photographs, Firstly it is relieving to see your work again after quite some time, it really is great to see. I will simply write what comes to mind and articulate myself a little to make it a bit interesting.
The photographs of the flora you have stumbled across along the way are really well thought out frames, the lighting is quite important throughout especially in the ones that are pulled back a bit and I can tell you have been attentive because the way you use the whole frame; But not are they just photos of plants and trees because you have a wide knowledge of the plant kingdom and you love the outside world so you really know what you are looking at… You also have a fascination with the inside world and unraveling thought and meaning even within what can seem mundane to the casual mind, to be able to look deeper into reality. 
The photograph of the beautifully sun lit Silver Birch resting near the edge of a river bed in which the river flows over the rocks in the distance towards the foreground, in what is a seemingly wild and spiky woodland, takes me back to one of my first school geography trips to Devon. I was around 8 or 9, our teacher lead us down some hills and into a shallow river, to teach us about how rivers are formed. The purpose was to walk downstream in the river and see how the stones carried by the flowing water have eroded the further away from the spring we went and to piece together how the landscape has been formed. This memory gave me a lot of meaning and fascination with geography and nature. It is this same feeling and memory when I look at this photograph, the elements in the frame are close enough to bring back the memory of one of my first realisations and gazes into natures wonder, it’s birth and wholeness, remembering how a river is born and seeing the landscape erode from the power of water over a long time. And the young Silver Birch in the foreground is the abstraction of myself maybe. Watching, looking back, interacting with everything around, I can see that moment in which you felt and maybe had a fascination with the scene or the light or the tree. 
         Thank you for sending over your photographs, Firstly it is relieving to see your work again after quite some time, it really is great to see. I will simply write what comes to mind and articulate myself a little to make it a bit interesting.
The photographs of the flora you have stumbled across along the way are really well thought out frames, the lighting is quite important throughout especially in the ones that are pulled back a bit and I can tell you have been attentive because the way you use the whole frame; But not are they just photos of plants and trees because you have a wide knowledge of the plant kingdom and you love the outside world so you really know what you are looking at… You also have a fascination with the inside world and unraveling thought and meaning even within what can seem mundane to the casual mind, to be able to look deeper into reality. 
The photograph of the beautifully sun lit Silver Birch resting near the edge of a river bed in which the river flows over the rocks in the distance towards the foreground, in what is a seemingly wild and spiky woodland, takes me back to one of my first school geography trips to Devon. I was around 8 or 9, our teacher lead us down some hills and into a shallow river, to teach us about how rivers are formed. The purpose was to walk downstream in the river and see how the stones carried by the flowing water have eroded the further away from the spring we went and to piece together how the landscape has been formed. This memory gave me a lot of meaning and fascination with geography and nature. It is this same feeling and memory when I look at this photograph, the elements in the frame are close enough to bring back the memory of one of my first realisations and gazes into natures wonder, it’s birth and wholeness, remembering how a river is born and seeing the landscape erode from the power of water over a long time. And the young Silver Birch in the foreground is the abstraction of myself maybe. Watching, looking back, interacting with everything around, I can see that moment in which you felt and maybe had a fascination with the scene or the light or the tree. 





It also makes me feel like I am one of those stones in the river bed, slowly being eroded by natures might whilst time washes over, just waiting to be picked up and carried along with the current and realising that even that stone has a purpose, it is part of a landscape that is all reliant on everything around it, the whole dance of life. But I am also the Silver Birch tree watching it all happen and adapting to all of the obstacles that come its way over time, it shows the peeling of layers in its bark, each layer a season in the cycle, useful it is, providing fire and warmth, waterproof material and sap to drink in the spring and shelter…
It a great photograph to me on a personal level,  it allows me to see deeper into the wilderness by simply having sight of it and knowing that there has been joy in taking the image and joy in gazing at the world and that something has been felt.
It makes me think that we usually articulate meaning through narrative and that this has done just that for me.
I feel that courageous spirit, a sense of adventure and curiosity to find a beautiful location or a moment to celebrate life over/ with/ to. I think that is the driving force in your search for photographs. It makes the world a nicer place having photographs to be proud of and to look back at, but also knowing the artist who made them to be able to speak to and discuss life and what and how we want to say our vision.
Restecpa .
Safe, Aiiightt. R.

I bought this film off of a fellow photographer who bulk loaded some rolls from expired reels into 35mm canisters. I have seen results before from this film and love it, and now I have my hands on some I can really give it a go myself.
This is my good friend shin.

I held a meeting at JOLT, Creative Community Space in Gloucester on 03 03 22. We met up to discuss how we will present to the public and to come about a few main talking points to help us establish our aims of the whole event. We started with introducing ourselves and our place in the community, them I will explain the importance of photography in the modern age we find ourselves in and why it's an important roll for me to do what I do... We will then have a discussion between the photographer perspective and the musicians perspective to help articulate to the public the symbiosis of the works created between ourselves and how the work is actually made... How the relationships are formed and how access is gained into peoples lives to be able to photograph them comfortably but meaningfully. I will also present how they work is presented in its final form from my personal take on it all and also how commercially it is realised in the world of public art and engagement within communities. 

There is still a lot of development and a good slideshow to create and finalise but we are getting there. 

Next meeting is with JPDL (Dave) to discuss and get him in the know of how we will present and his role too. Having these two friends along side me presenting and us communicating in a serious public domain will help us all grow and come about more solid perspectives from either side. They are both extremely talented and establish artists within Gloucestershire and are great friends to be there. Stay tunes and come to the talk. love.