I have returned from a four day trip to Istanbul with a couple of friends. It’s a great place with great people… and food too. The virtues of the humble kebab have been revealed to me, I have visited a Turkish bath house – where I was warmed and refreshed. I have stepped inside the blue mosque, met another photographer in the spice bazaar (more on that later) and along the way developed a taste for apple tea and sahlep. My photographs are still hiding in their little canisters waiting to be developed.

I’m posting a completely different style of photograph today as I have been inspired by a Japanese photographer by the name of Natsumi Hayashi. This flash of inspiration came via the Amsterdam bound in-flight magazine ‘Holland Herald’. Having a few years of lucid – flying dreams under my belt, a general love of the surreal and a slight obsession with anything to do with Japan I instantly fell for her work.

Being the tall walking contradiction that I am. I love the staged photograph as much as I do the candid and thought I would make a street levitation of my own. If not just to see how hard it is to get up in the air! I might make more, who knows. I think it could be interesting and I’m certainly not the first one

to do a tribute as it were. What do you think?

Yowayowa Camera woman

My wristwatch on a stick in Canary Wharf.

February 10, 2012

Photography

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I’m going away this weekend for a few days and I have many photographs that are sitting quietly on my hard drive, not making much of a fuss. So, as there is no perfect time, here we are.

Where there is darkness…

February 9, 2012

Photography

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I thought I'd been transported to the eighties.

What’s poppin…

January 16, 2012

Photography

Kreative Blogger Award

January 7, 2012

Photography, Writing

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Before I post the next set of photographs, I would like to acknowledge Meredith for presenting me with the Kreativ Blogger Award. Thank you very much!

As part of this little award I have to tell you ten things about myself that are generally not known.

I can pinpoint the moment my interest in photography began, I was about fourteen and captured dramatic red-sky sunset from my bedroom window, using a webcam of all things. It was then that I realised that photography is special.
I get asked my height, a lot. My exact height is 178cm. aka 5’10″ or the average height of an English male.
I want to live and work in another country. Canada, Iceland or Italy intrigue me.
I can’t drive but I’m learning.
I’ve tried and would like to do more ice-climbing.
I hope to never stop riding a bicycle.
Abstract art frustrates me somewhat – as a viewer.
I have a form of OCD.
I have so much in my head at anyone time it can be hard to know what to do or where to begin.
If I could do anything for the rest of my life, I would be a professional travel photographer or own a photographic gallery.

This award is a really nice way to spread the word about other blogs / photographers that one follows, so I will do just that. Here are six interesting sites from:

1.Johny

2. Ian

3. Christakis

4. Will

5. Vicky

6. Leanne

Blackpool.

January 3, 2012

Photography, Writing

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I love reflections and layers, I love the tide, the wind, the idea of each year being the same but so, so different. Lady Indecisive still has a goal…all the time traveling towards something. Happy New Year.

Via Roma.

December 16, 2011

Photography

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My Visit to Italy in August of this year feels like a long time ago. Especially now that the cold weather is here, and the question being asked behind closed doors and by warm radiators is

“Will it snow? When…?”

Like my ‘May.Be’ post earlier in the year I thought I’d wait for a time before going through the photographs again. It’s easier to distance oneself and become more objective this way I find, but at the same time you see more. A previously unrecognised ‘punctum’ opens up new meaning in an image.

I have found through talking to various people that inspiration, photographic or otherwise is increasingly being found outside of the UK. But maybe that’s because we’re all just too curious… and we need to feed that fire, and only difference or the unfamiliar can do that. I know I am… curious that is. And I think it would be a shame to lose such a charming attribute. However there’s always sights to see on the way to work… and sometimes the best photographs are those you didn’t take.

These Photographs were made in Via Reggio, Luca, Roma and Sezze and they appear before you thanks to JW.

May. Be.

October 14, 2011

Photography

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I made these photographs in May 2011. I felt like saving them for a while.

October feels like the right time to promote the idea of Sunshine and the slightly surreal. A fridge stood at traffic lights… need I say more.

Anyway these images might serve as visual comfort blanket to let you know that we will not forever be plagued by dark nights.

Note: I have to edit through 417 photographs… so until the next post, stay curious and in touch. :)

On a completely different note, all these photos can be printed, so if anyone wants to print swap with me. I’m more than happy to oblige. I blame Meredith for this trend I might be starting. It’s pretty exciting and you’re welcome to join in. x

Morocco.

October 4, 2011

Photography, Writing

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I visited Spain for ten days in September, however… it was a rather tame affair so I thought I’d liven it up a bit with a day trip to Morocco as my Father’s cousin lives in Tarifa (which conveniently enough is the shortest boat crossing from Spain to Tangier). Filling out the exit and entry forms was quite exciting… and I finally got my passport stamped. A fine moment! I wish I could have stayed longer than five hours and truly explored. One amazing discovery was the two hour time difference between Spain and Morocco!

I took my Nikon D300 away with me. Note to self: D300 is not the camera for the job. The size of it attracts far too much attention and well, I have become accustomed to my film camera, and the lovely grain that film provides of course.

However for the purposes of photographic flexibility I have had the thought to trade in my Nikon and perhaps go for a Leica X1. Eventually I could start a 365 project again – taking a photograph everyday for a year, without film development and size of the camera being an issue.

Forcing yourself to take a picture a day is quite a good practice, it keeps you aware and thoughtful. But then again, so does just opening your eyes.

Someone I recently met made me realise, it’s great to have a passion… but it’s even better to be actively involved in it. I have two motivations doing this type photography..to make myself smile and hopefully affect someone, somewhere positively with what I capture.

That is all.

Madrid. Final.

September 9, 2011

Photography

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This is the last of the photographs from Madrid. I find myself doing this to get my head out of CV writing mode because despite my freelance status… well like a lot of people. I need a job.

I find myself in Spain again from 12-22nd September… this time in Fuengirola. Hopefully I’ll get to Gibralter and from there possibly take the boat to Tangier in Morocco for a day if I can persuade other people….(those that are paying) I don’t know what will happen.

By the way, thanks in advance to those who take the time to leave a comment, I find it encouraging.

Here’s a quote I like that I found today.

‘To take photographs means to recognize – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis’.
Henri Cartier-Bresson