Getting out, connecting with people and exploring is challenging and fun.
My parents gave me my first camera for my tenth birthday. It used cassette film and came with three flash units, each with four bulbs. I loved taking photographs and I continued even when I left England to work as a teacher in the Sudan. There, even during a famine, 35mm film was still easy to buy. As was toothpaste. I took two slr cameras, taped up against the dust and sand. When I returned home, I turned my bedroom into a darkroom, printed some photos and that was the end of photography for many years.
Then I had a three year brush with cancer. With the limits to my freedom that cancer treatment brought, I returned to photography. The camera brings purpose and connection. I also use photography to help others get out there and am a trusted photographer for a number of small organisations in the Aire Valley.
Currently, I am working on three projects, one which involves making short videos, another about the evenings and nights and the third is to tell the story of the River Aire.
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I live in Shipley, West Yorkshire and explore the town, its people and surrounding hills.
I love photographing everything, make short films and share my work.
I also enjoy talking about photography and cameras.
I am currently a trustee for The Aire Rivers Trust and am photographing the length of the river. The aim is to learn more about its landscape, its wildlife and our human relationships with both these things.
Get in touch if you're interested.
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Latest
22nd December 2025 I thought I'd show you the navigation tools. I tried navigating with only these to begin with but I was focused on finding my way rather than photography so I also now use the OS App on my phone. Bonza!
18th December 2025 Another mile and another bridge. The bridges seem to be railway bridges that connect the mines on the Aire's north bank with the towns on the south. Why aren't the big towns on the same side as the mines? The route to follow the river under this bridge is lined with boards. Inspected weekly.
14th December 2025 Exploring the hinterland between the river's enormous weir and the cut and locks, there were many interesting features. Here is Mile 61's lesser sights from an apparently condemned bridge. You can see the steel pilings on the river banks and in the foreground is the vandalised barrier to prevent wanderers such as myself.
28th November 2025 For the next few Aire Miles I made a special journey by train to Castleford and walked up river with a partner from Yorkshire Water. It was the first photo from a day of exploration and some wonderous sights and mini-adventures. Honestly, it was like being a kid again. Castleford just gave and gave. The wavy bridge walking route across the weir is outside the Aire Miles scope but is beautiful to see and hear.
23rd November 2025 This is Allerton Bywater, more former open cast coal mines, flooded in the last twenty-five years. They are a haven for birds but here is the flood wall between the former pits and the river, with its footpath running along the top. I think I'm going to be walking this for quite some miles now ...
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