The poster girl gets the beach, the dunes, the perfect light and a 30% discount; the actual shopper gets a footpath, a purple handbag and a too-warm day in the town.
| Aperture | ƒ/4 |
| Camera | ILCE-7RM5 |
| Focal length | 24mm |
| ISO | 160 |
| Shutter speed | 1/500s |
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The Reflection and the Real
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The Reading Room on Wheels
I think he was double parked, probably waiting for someone and reading the newspaper on a cool March afternoon in 2021.
Aperture ƒ/4.5 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 43mm ISO 500 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Boardwalk to the Last Light
The boardwalk pulled me straight in. Those weathered planks running across the dark volcanic sand towards a sea gone smooth from a long exposure, like the Atlantic had decided to hold its breath for me.
Playa de Ajabo at dusk is a different beast to the postcard Tenerife of packed loungers and factor-50. This was the middle of winter after all. Even during the day there weren’t huge crowds, the two thatched parasols stood there in silhouette like a pair of scarecrows off duty, and the sky was transforming from molten orange at the horizon up to a deep, cool blue overhead.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 38mm ISO 100 Shutter speed 1/3s Fediverse reactions
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Hand in Hand on a Valencia Pavement
Fingers loosely laced, a thin ring catching the light and that small contact is the whole picture.
Aperture ƒ/2.8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 24mm ISO 640 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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The Glass Cathedral of Work
A wall of glass tilt over your head and you start to feel very small, very corporate and very much in need of a strong coffee. This is the WeWork office in London. Look closely and there’s one warm pendant lamp glowing in a window, a tiny pocket of cosiness in a tower of cold glass, and that’s the bit that gets me.
I’d rather be working from home and I think most people would too.
Aperture ƒ/4 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 25mm ISO 1600 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Everyone in a Hurry but Him
The man in the red jacket became my anchor the moment I set up. Henry Street on a sunny day is a river of people. Shoppers, buskers’ audiences, lads cutting across to Gino’s for a cone, and a slow shutter turns all of that into smears of colour and ghostly half-people mid-stride. But he just sat there on the utility box, hands clasped, watching the world rush by at a blur while he stayed pin-sharp.
Aperture ƒ/22 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 50 Shutter speed 1/4s Fediverse reactions
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Perched and Patient
A heron perched on a boat in Kinsale harbour last year. Patient and watching.
Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 240mm ISO 800 Shutter speed 1/1000s Fediverse reactions
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Rearing to Go at the Dingle Races
Number 9 had clearly decided that the racing could wait. I was wandering around at the Dingle Races and right in front of me this dark bay racehouse reared up on it’s hind legs while the poor jocket and two men tried to calm the animal.
It only lasted a moment and the racing continued.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7M3 Focal length 31mm ISO 320 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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A Quiet Bench in a Busy City
Early morning in Spitalfields, near the market and I spotted a man enjoying a moment by himself in the nearby green area.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 320 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Low Tide on the Thames
Pull the river back a few metres and London grows a beach. I caught this stretch of Thames foreshore at low tide, the water was a proper builder’s-tea brown, the City stacked up behind like someone had emptied a box of glass towers.
I love springer spaniels, so I had to photograph this.
Aperture ƒ/8 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 160 Shutter speed 1/500s Fediverse reactions
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Where the Lizandro Meets the Sea
A surfer, fresh out of the water, with her body board while a couple nearby walk and photograph the beach.
What you might notice from the waves and the way the dress of the woman on the far left is whipped about is the wind. No wonder surfers love this part of the world! This beach is inside the Ericeira World Surfing Reserve so you’ll find surfers here when the waves rise and come thundering on to the sand.
Aperture ƒ/6.3 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 120mm ISO 400 Shutter speed 1/5000s Fediverse reactions
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Henry Street, Slowed Down
A quarter of a second is all it takes to turn a busy footpath into a river of ghosts. I planted myself on Henry Street, dropped the shutter speed right down, and let the lunchtime crowd smear themselves across the frame while the New Yorker models behind them stayed pin-sharp and perfectly bored. It’s the opposite of the shot I put up a few days ago, where I caught a Deliveroo cyclist mid-pedal.
Aperture ƒ/22 Camera ILCE-7RM5 Focal length 24mm ISO 50 Shutter speed 1/4s Fediverse reactions
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The Tin Pub in Ahakista (2006)
Boy all alone on the street (2007)- Sometimes if you’re trying to sell photos you won’
The Gentleman Clown (2008)
Castle on the hill (2009)
Milk (2012)
Isabella (2014)
Headphones (2015)
The Ghosts of Debenhams (2015)
London Skyline (2016)
Fog near the river (2017)
Tree After Sunset (2021)
Strands of beauty treatments (2022)
Tracks in the field (2023)
Happy Gotcha Day, Diego! (2024)
Here, smell this! (2025)