Selected work

A gallery, not a showreel.

Personal work, made for its own sake: cityscape, landscape, water, people in public places, and the small things that reward going back to the same spot in different light. Commissioned work is largely absent for the ordinary reason — most of it is confidential, and the rest is shown only where the client has asked for it to be.

Canyon walls layered in golden-hour light

Canyon, golden hourLandscape

Cities

Mostly monochrome. Geometry, weather and one good hour.

City waterfront at dusk, cloud piled above the towers and a bird crossing

Black and white escalators at night, converging metal diagonals

Cantilever bridge in black and white with the skyline stacked behind it

Boardwalk railing throwing hard diagonal shadows across the deck

Formal garden stair and gate in black and white, framed by clipped cypress

Empty timber pier and lamp standards fading into river fog

Monochrome cluster of high-rise towers seen from street level

Suspension bridge in black and white with a single sail beneath it

Drawbridge towers across a flat estuary in black and white

Waterfront apartment blocks under a heavy grey sky, black and white

Two palms flanking an empty beach entrance in near-monochrome

Cable car wires strung above a riverside terrace, black and white

Gulls standing on a rock breakwater, a bridge on the far horizon

Canal-side terrace and stone bridge, a duck in the near water

Large country house across a wide lawn, black and white

Beachfront cabanas and parked cars, printed with a white border

Counter service at a small restaurant, black and white

Black and white high-rise skyline reduced to blocks of tone

Older man outdoors, cigarette in his lips, weathered face filling the frame — The smokerStreet

Woman framed by pink blossom, looking past the camera — BlossomStreet

Three men bent over a stone chess table in a park — Three at the boardStreet

Studio-lit portrait of a woman against a plain warm ground — Studio sittingPortrait

A man and a child reading together against a bright yellow wall — Yellow wallStreet

Surfer wading out through the shallows carrying a board overhead — Walking it outStreet

Lifeguard seated beneath an orange umbrella, tower blocks behind — Under the umbrellaStreet

Man in a flat cap sitting alone on a park bench among fallen leaves — Flat cap, leavesStreet

Lone surfcaster on an empty beach under piled cloud, warm monochrome — SurfcasterStreet

A line of people practising tai chi along a park path — Morning practiceStreet

Beach patrol rider crossing the sand on a quad bike — Beach patrolStreet

Two lifeguards on a yellow beach tower, rescue buoys planted in the sand — Tower and buoysStreet

02 · People — documentary frames of members of the public, shown as portfolio work. Nobody pictured is connected with the studio and no image here is an endorsement.

Land and water

Mostly scheduling, occasionally luck.

Canyon walls stepping back in layers of golden-hour light

Red rock towers rising against a clear sky

Coastline seen from high above, headlands falling away into the Pacific

Black and white study of a sheer mountain face

Lone fisherman silhouetted on absolutely still water

Dune crest cutting a diagonal beneath broken cloud

A single bare tree standing in still misted water

Black and white dunes under a bank of cloud

Black and white lake in heavy fog, sun burning through the trees

Alpine meadow with cloud spilling over the ridge behind it

Black and white lake with a sunken log and cloud reflected

Sand dune ridge under a deep blue sky, reduced to two shapes

Waves running against ice plant on a low bluff

Monochrome cloud burst over a wide empty beach

Black and white ridgeline lost in low cloud

Line and shape

Where the subject is the geometry.

Pier railing casting a hard repeating shadow across the boards

Yellow lifeguard chair standing against a flat blue sea

Black and white pilings standing in shallow water

Boardwalk running to the horizon in one-point perspective

Black and white escalators, strong opposing diagonals

Railway track curving away as a single leading line

Monochrome road curving into snowbound mountains

Stone arch bridge above a spillway in full flow

Palm-lined boardwalk running to a vanishing point

Black and white dock with two palms and a flag

A single dune curve reduced to two shapes against open sky

Weather and season

Fog, snow, low sun and the short window each of them gives you.

Mist lying over a lily-covered lake at dawn

Snow falling through the light of a park lamp at dusk

Searchlight beam thrown over a waterfront gazebo at night

Black and white woodland cut by shafts of light

Black and white snow-covered forest road

Black and white volcano standing above a small farm

Black and white rock spire against piled cloud

Backlit autumn lane, sun coming through the trunks

Autumn stream running between banks of red foliage

Autumn shoreline mirrored in still blue water

Red canoe drawn up on an autumn lake shore

Red maple canopy filling the whole frame

Bare autumn trees throwing long shadows over leaf litter

Wet autumn leaves scattered across a blue-green boardwalk

Close, and companions

Detail work, and the animals that came along.

Grasshopper and a bee sharing the center of an oxeye daisy

Ginkgo leaves backlit to a translucent green

Two maple leaves lying on the forest floor

Black and white fern frond against dark ground

Black and white leaves beaded with water droplets

Frosted leaves locked under a skin of ice

Reeds and their reflection in pale blue water

Dog on a snowy trail, its shadow thrown long toward the camera

Dog standing on a snow-covered track in winter woods

A single bare tree standing in still misted water, near-monochrome

Want something in this register, for your own subject?

The look above comes from the same habits that produce good commercial work: turning up at the right hour, framing once, and doing the developing rather than leaving it to a preset. That transfers to a boardroom, a building or a product just as well as it does to a dune.

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