Nature Photos

My Story

Photography has always been something I come back to. There is something about it that feels like a responsibility, the responsibility to actually look at the world around you rather than just moving through it. I have always loved a big view or a golden hour shot but this project started from something much quieter than that.

I shoot around Bournemouth mostly. The wildlife, the nature, the little architectural details that sit in plain sight without anyone really noticing them. I am drawn to the things that take patience. The way light settles on water at exactly the right moment. The texture in something most people would walk straight past. One of my favourite shots from this project is a bee settled on a lavender flower. The colour contrast is so vivid and specific that it almost does not look real. That image captures exactly what I am trying to do with this whole project. Finding something worth stopping for in something completely ordinary.

What I love about photography is that it is both a creative and a methodical process. I take my time. I read the light, I think about the composition, I am deliberate about what I want the image to say before I take it. I am detail oriented by nature and photography gives that quality somewhere to go.

There is no strategy behind this project and no finish line. It is an archive of Bournemouth, of nature, of the way I see things. And it gets sharper every time I pick up the camera.