In India's Kerala province, if you drive west from the town of Munnar on a narrow winding road, you will be overwhelmed by the landscape. round hills from bottom to top covered with tea bushes that wriggle bright green around the slopes in long stripes with the narrow pathways in between where the tea pickers cut the leaves. here and there some cottages where the pickers live and the occasional tea factory where the tea is dried and packed. It is a landscape like a nineteenth-century print or a Japanese watercolour painting. That tranquillity emanates from it too. the repetition and variation in form, the alternation of light and shadow over the hell-green makes it never boring but soothing.
My great loves are the water and everything about it. Ships, travel, history and photography. The combination is therefore very common in my photographic work. Most photographs are created intuitively. It is an image that strikes me, usually a combination of form and color in which a.. Read more…