When do you see a country as it really is? Or at least part of it. Is it by going to the monuments? Seeing the highlights that everyone comes for? By going to the traditions and festivals that are annual highlights in that country's calendar? Or is it also by catching something of the daily life of the ordinary resident who lives his life. who works has a family and whose children go to school every day? Like here, a morning on the outskirts of Ooty in India. a group of boys are waiting for a school bus to pick them up to take them to school. Same school, same school uniform. Across the street is a shop where they probably buy another bag of crisps every day and something to drink for later in the day. Near and around it are fathers. They have brought the boys from home on scooters or motorbikes to this assembly point and are now waiting for them to get on the bus. An ordinary morning, an ordinary street in a provincial town in India. An ordinary picture but one with a lot to see.
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…