Portrait Photographer & Blogger
Here is my first ever attempt at a self portrait. I am told this processing is one of layers, that each exploit in self portraiture is to peel a layer from yourself and that each layer is difficult but worthwhile. The process is inexplicably hard. Judging your work with yourself as the subject is hard. […]
Here they are the marital Holy Grail. Ann and Trevor. 50 years in. They’re not just hanging in there either… Smiling, glowing with love and the life they have built together. A life spent well loved and loving well. You’d find it easy to believe they’d never argued a day in their lives. Of course […]
Emma and Same. They’re in love and they’ve had to wait for their big day. So we hung out, just hours before Boris told us we couldn’t. Not all celebrations involve crowds and confetti. This one involved fresh air, quiet and a little walk. It’s no comparison to the blast we’re going to have next […]
The kitchen, the dining table, the garden, the lounge, the bedrooms, an occasional venture to the garage, the kitchen again, the lounge for good while because we can’t muster a lot of energy to continue the rotation. Then the bathroom, the dining table again and the lounge again. We rotate these familiar surroundings. Surroundings we […]
Next up on this little creative journal space I call my blog is my first ever set of nature snaps! I took a little online course a few weeks ago on “making mindful films” with Zoe Wittering and whilst I don’t think I am anywhere near a standard with my film work to share anything it […]
We’re running low on a lot of things now; Patience, headspace, jobs we’ve been meaning to do and the feel good factor of finally getting it done. Lots of novelties eroded too. The novelty of walking, online workouts, Joe Wicks, writing on a blackboard, all the online educational “games”, FaceTime, Zoom, House Party, quiet roads, […]
Love in these times. Is there anything else? We find ourselves in times of our lives on reduction. Reduced down to the things we need, fat trimmed from all the excesses of living such a multifaceted life. It all got simmered down in an instant to 3 main things food, healthcare and our loved ones. […]
Week: 4 Offspring I started the week off with: 3 Offspring I finish the week off with: 3 and you can’t prove otherwise Offspring conflicts refereed: Millions. I don’t even care who’s fault anything is anymore, they all behave like drunken cage fighters Alcohol units consumed: I don’t want to talk about it, I will […]
A third week in lockdown. I’m not sure it’s the new normal yet but we’re certainly settling in. Emotions are running a little less high all around. Orlee’s finally stopped asking “where are we going today?” every morning. I’m getting in to the groove of my new role as homeschool teacher and this much more […]
Week 2. Rumours on the social-media-sphere were that this would be a tough one. They were right. The novelty of week 1 was gone. Whatever jittery fear-based adrenaline that was powering me through week 1 has ebbed. The children miss their friends and are much less tolerant of each other. Basically everything is a bit […]
Weddings are up there with Christmas and Halloween for festivities that produce monumental amounts of waste in the form of disposable landfill fodder. From flower foam to dance-floor flip-flops, mini plastic bubbles bottles to all forms of non compostable confetti, dresses, suits, hats and shoes no one will ever wear again… The list is endless. […]
This is the week I spent in two states of being. Sobbing, with no hope of zooming in on any clear specific reason why. Just wave after wave of the enormity and entirety of it. Or in a bizarre state of surrealness experiencing it, repeating over and over to people I saw on the school run, on […]
