Travel/Location Gallery
A gallery of my Location based research photographs. Most of these were taken to document various trips I made for the purposes of my writing - or for the pure fun of exploring a location and documenting it! You can find some much more recent explorations of location on my Flickr stream.
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Snow in Kent A simple sequence of minimalist images of that rare phenomenon, snow. |
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Various Shots of the Kent Coast Kent has a surprisingly varied coastline. Everything from the bleak marshes of the Thames to the White Cliffs. |
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Graveney Marsh This was one of the hottest days of the year - and i was nuts enough to be out in it! Walking a short stretch of the Saxon Shore Way Path between Whitstable and Faversham. I was so knocked out by the heat that i didn't get many photos of this place - the whole trip ended up rather dream-like. But this small area was such a curious, affecting environment that i am glad i managed to catch a little of it here. |
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Birchington Promenade A surreal section of coast stretching between Minnis Bay and Epple Bay on the north Kent coast. Above the cliffs is Birchington and normalcy - but down here is this curiously removed and secluded world where ruined structures immerge from the chalk. Ruins that are downright eerie sometimes. |
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Dungeness Without a doubt, one of the strangest and most surreal places in the country. This follows on from the gallery above, giving a more detailed look at the last Kent location. |
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Suffolk - the Bulcamp Marshes, Dunwich etc. An eerie world of flat marshy coast and the threat of erosion. Dunwich especially is famous for having mostly vanished into the sea.
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Dartmoor and Wistman's Wood Another of the strangest places in the UK - and, like many of them, strange not because it is a wilderness but because that wilderness is largely man made - in this case a very long time ago. It is a place with its own style, especially evident in Wistman's Wood - a small grove of ancient stunted oaks - one of the most amazing woods I have ever seen and the setting of my story The Magpies. |
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The Scottish Braes Near Avimore in the heart of the scottish wilderness. Once again, a surreal touch is provided by the influences of people - abandoned houses, rough wild roads etc . . . |
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A Few London Shots This is very limited. I am not very good at city photography - i always end up rushing and thus messing them up. Still, here are a few shots from some of the more vibrant parts of the Capital - Camden Market, Soho and the London Eye. Hopefully this section will expand. |
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Above the Clouds I had never flown before, ok! So cut me some slack! Above the clouds is a place - quite an amazing place in fact. Definitely a wonder worth documenting, with that vast white landscape spread out below you . . . |
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Slovenia Tourist-Style Gallery Slovenia is a sweet country, especially when you see it as a tourist! For its size (approximately equal to the south-west of England) it is a very diverse place, stretching from the alps in the north down to the hot Mediterranean land in the south. |
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Overwinter in the Alps For those used to the sweet, chocolate box image of the alps, there was something almost profound about seeing it in the deep winter. Here was a chance to see snow utterly different from anything the UK is ever hit by. Snow that actually means something. Snow with significance! |
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Ljubljana One thing the tourist guides tend not to mention is the very strange atmosphere that hangs over the capital city of Ljubljana. It's a bizarre mix of the sweet and the grim - the cheerful and the run down. And the whole with a big streak of melancholy running through it! It's a mix that resonated with me a lot and i regret not exploring it more with my camera. However, you know what i am with city photography! Ljubljana is also the setting of my novella The Whispering Girl. |