Category: photography
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Botanics, Spring 2026
Sonny and I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh this weekend. It was the first day of the year when it felt warm enough – at least in the sun – to walk around in a t-shirt. I’ve attempted to caption most of these with what I think they are, but the captions aren’t showing,…
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Banner Photos
When I was designing this site, I spent a while finding photos that would potentially work as banners, with an unusual 3:1, 4:1 or even wider/shorter aspect ratio. Some of them, I’ve turned the contrast down or made other edits to make them stand out less, or to accommodate text potentially going in front of…
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Fabaceae
The bean family, also known as the legumes, leguminoseae or papilionaceae. One of my favourite plant families. Their flowers are beautiful, very distinctive and pleasingly perky; and I like seed pods that really look like pods. There’s also something charming about the unfolding, trefoil leaves at the end of every branch, and I’m a fan…
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Photo Point
I crouch below the eyeline of the crowd Half-watching Water dance, half in-camera. The drumming and the wash-rags beating loud I strive to trap in electronic amber. With flashes or by squatting frozen-still I take away the movement of the night. This festival of Nowness on the hill Distilled in slices, slides for future sight.…
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Treebike
One day, many years ago now, I was taking my dog for a walk on Hampstead Heath when I met two men who had just hauled a bicycle up into this tree. I think that’s as far as their plan went – they didn’t have a camera to record the moment for posterity, or anything…