it always seems impossible at the time to know what will make a good photograph. i could say i don't know why i felt the impulse to point a lens and press a button for any of these pictures, there's definitely many times when i get photos back from the developers and i think why the hell did i do that? but sometimes and nearly always unexpectedly something jumps out at me that i never thought i would give a second thought too.

that's whats great about photography, its a second chance to see something and the more i practice the more i see and the luckier i seem to get.

one of the highlights of last year for me was walking the ridgeway, an 87 mile long hike following an ancient chalk ridge route used by prehistoric man. it was a truly inspiring place for photography. at the time i was starting to regret taking my girlfriends medium format camera besides my beloved olympus om10, but now looking back it was worth lugging that's chunky brick of a camera around.








black and white and medium format photography from the ridgeway 2008.


these two photographs below are clearly not from the ridgeway but at the beginning of one of the films, thought they were interesting and worth a look.









standing in the eye of the white horse on the hill. the mystery of why the horse was created still remains. it can only be seen fully from the air, so perhaps it was a sign to the ancient gods, or a mark of territorial ownership.

it seems to me that photography is as much about what you leave out of frame as in. when you line up a shot you are eliminating so much. what do you leave out and why? whatever happens usually something else you didn't expect sneaks into frame.