I photographed my first morning cuppa... Tea Pigs Earl Grey, Lemon Juice, Odysea Greek Oak Tree Honey in my favourite cup; a hand-made painted mug from Dubrovnik in Croatia, purchased in 2020, during a brief time when travel was allowed to certain "green" countries during the Covid period of restricted travel.

""When I force myself to utter the awkward phrase, 'I am grateful,' I actually start to feel a bit more grateful... It's basic cognitive therapy: behave in a certain way, and your mind will eventually catch up with your actions.".
~ A.J. Jacobs

~ Michael Foley

I recently picked up a copy of a book called "One Photo a Day Keeps the Doctor Away" by Joost Joossen when visiting the Tate Gallery to view an exhibition on The 80's: Photographing Britain…

"You can't go back in time, and regret is pointless. The crucial thing is to start paying attention now."

~ Michael Foley

I had been researching for months. I had developed my interest and enthusiasm for taking photos through my iPhone, buying lenses to push boundaries and limitations. Yet, I desired more than what a phone camera could provide…

“The Leica Q will teach you the art of walking. Good walking shoes is the first important feature of any photographer. A portable camera is the next. You will miss your 90mm lens and your 50mm Noctilux the first days with the Leica Q. Now you got to move your feet and use your head to compose. One lens is all you got. It's brilliant. This is the camera for training of the eye and mind....”

~ Thorsten von Overgaard

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what is important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negatives. And if things don't turn out ... Take another shot.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again...”

~ Joseph Campbell

I’ve been wanting a 120mm film camera from the time I started to dive into the world of film. I romanticised about taking photos Vivian Meier style using a Rollieflex camera…

“The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."

~ W. Eugene Smith

I started learning the craft of photography, with my iPhone 7 Plus. It is a digital camera after all... 

"“You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!” 

~ Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes.

I don’t have a favourite photographer. If you asked me who is my favourite artist, writer, actor, singer, band or what is my favourite movie, album, novel or piece of music, my answer would simply be, I don’t have a favourite. For me, to narrow down my choice, to identify a favourite... There are too many to name. I would find it difficult enough to list a top ten, let alone a single favourite…

"We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us."

~ Ralph M. Hattersley, Jr. (1921-2000) American photographic educator, commentator, journalist and photographer

A photo walk is the practice of going to a specific location to walk around to take photos. Wikipedia defines photowalk as: the act of walking with a camera for the main purpose of taking pictures of things that a photographer might find interesting. Obviously…

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

~ German photojournalist Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995)

People will say that they love the process of shooting film. Film slows down the process of photography…

“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

~ Robert Adams

I tried the Leica TL2 in 2020, when I first started looking for a real camera. Instead, I had my heart set on a Leica Q…

“A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.”

~ Man Ray

I remember when I first became interested in photography, I came across the Leica Q…

“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

~ Ansel Adams

I have spent a lot of my life dancing on the fringes of creativity. I painted when I was young. I was left-handed…

“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson