"The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

                                                           - Edward De Bono

Capturing the various facets of the world with a different slant has always been something that has appealed to me since first undertaking photography. No two photographers will ever take the same photograph of an object, scene or person. A subtle variation of angle, light or depth will always be present - it’s a question of whether those variables are realised and controlled, and ultimately used to our advantage.

I believe that photography itself is something inherent and not acquired. Clever technical aspects can always be learned - the true creativity of perception cannot.

In this gleaming digital world, much of the mystique of photography seems removed and many pictures appear so excessively manipulated that we question how much of the original concept remains.

For me, the quintessence of photography is in perfecting the art of capturing and preserving an image in that moment I press the shutter...

I am endlessly fascinated by scenes or objects that have nostalgia in some intangible form, whether immediately visible or in some innate quality about them. Bleak, windswept coastal scenes reminiscent of childhood, mid-century automobiles a product of decadent society, flowers that have a fleeting moment of beauty only to wither and pass and the strangely esoteric art of the poster, mysterious in its sudden non--affiliation with any product and forming abstracts as they deteriorate further…

I try to capture these fragments and moments of the world - those on the periphery of our vision or glimpsed momentarily as we rush by to pursue the 'bigger picture'.