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Like many children born in the 1950s my first camera was a Kodak Brownie 127. As I grew older I used an Agfa half frame and similar kit: two months after starting work and near starving myself I was able to buy a Pentax Spotmatic, oh joy...

That camera suited me for 10 or so years and I was sad when eventually the shutter became faulty. The ensuing years saw me tempted by many updates and improvements in SLR camera technology.

Then came the  digital age and again I was like a kid in a candy shop...

In the last 3 or 4 years I have become rather a technophobe regarding cameras as I realised that I was concentrating on the kit and not the image produced: the 'Hallelujah' moment was when, in an exhibition in Paris, I saw a remarkable series of photographs which had been taken with a very cheap point-and-shoot. Since that day I have disencumbered myself of high-tech kit and I now concentrate solely on the image. I have found that by concentrating on subject, composition, balance, light and framing my work has become more innocent with a natural spontaneity that is often missing in technically perfect photos.

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My Bath's Buildings photos are my reaction to what I regard as Tech Tyranny, in them I am striving to create pictures which have an honesty and simplicity absent in many over-engineered photographs. 

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Obviously, my Floating Worlds rely on software for their creation but I regard them as being individual works of art which happen to have a photographic DNA. They owe their existence to my original connection between Tibetan scrolls and a view of Bath from a hill, a photograph was the bridge between imagination and finished work.   

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Photography should be an art, not a science.

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To share this approach I conduct photo tours where I encourage participants to free-up their creativity. Details of these tours are available on...

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                                           www.phototoursinbath.co.uk 

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