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Cardiff over the years

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NEW BEGINNINGS As I going to be starting a new chapter in my life, my family and I are going to be moving away from the city that I have come to call home, Cardiff. The capitol of Wales, and one of the 4 capitols in the UK. I have grown accustomed to Cardiff. I met my wife here, and my daughter was born here. But I have never viewed Cardiff as my final resting place. Over the years I have photographed the streets of Cardiff with trusty Minolta SRT101, my Sony Alpha 35 and sometimes just my mobile phone. It has been the canvas that I have used to express my artistic and creative needs. I started in Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cardiff School of Art and Design. Originally this was based in Howard Gardens Campus near the city centre. It was an excellent place to expand my artistic skills, knowledge and expertise. They encouraged the students to express themselves as much as possible and to work in such a collaborative environment as that was an experience that I will always remem
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Some thoughts... on New Zealand

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Threads   Instagram   Facebook As I sit here, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, trying to come up with something new for today's article, I decided to talk about my most recent trip to New Zealand. All of these shots are in Auckland, by far New Zealand's largest city. A city that is at once very busy, like any other large metropolitan area in the world, but manages to maintain the Kiwis relaxed attitude to life and huge sense of fun. Unfortunately I had commited the ultimate film photography sin, and I hadn't taken enough film, and I had finished that in the first week of being in the country. (These shots are to follow... once I get around to developing the film... I'm very lazy when it comes to sending the things off). We were only there for two nights, as we were on our way back to London, via San Francisco. But we managed to cram in a lot in that short time. We managed to get all the sights that we missed from our previous visit in 2018. When you
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Cyprus 2023

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During half term, my family and I took a much needed holiday to Cyprus. This was the second time that my wife and I had been, we have some very fond memories of the island and her people, but this would be the first time that my daughter had been to the island. With this in mind, we set off on our journey towards Aphrodites island. As is normal, I took my trusty Minolta SRT 101 as my digital camera died during 2022, when we were in Botswana. I had bought some film from one of my local camera shop, Express Imaging. I bought 2 rolls of Fomapan film, in hindsight I should've bought some colour film as well. We stayed near a town called Paphos. Situated on the south coast. It oozes history from the Ancient Greeks, Romans, Ottaman Empire and British Empire. As a bit of history buff, I was in heaven. It was fantastic. There was a place called the Archaeological Site of Nea Paphos, which contains a huge amount of Mosaics, a Roman villa... or two, and Odeon, all for around 10 E
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My First Camera.

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       My first camera was a Minolta SRT, gifted to me by dad back in the '90's when I was in in Art College. Film photography was always my first love, in the photography sense of the word. Anyone who has ever smelt the inside of a darkroom knows the sort of nostalgia this can invoke, and the feeling that you get when you develop that perfect photograph. There is something about photographs that he have been developed in a darkroom by the person who took the photo while out on the street, it certainly gave me a buzz. My Minolta SRT101, with a Miranda lens. Sorry about the kitchen surface background.           While I am no technophobe, I do believe that digital cameras are fantastic and they certainly have changed the photographic landscape, there is something that they cannot produce, and that is the handmade feel that darkroom photography has. Developing digital photographs is a completely different process. It is still a labour of love for photographers, and we still enjoy
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