Light, Shade and Colour

The strong saturated colours in the outside courtyard contrast strongly with the monochromatic interior
in this shot captured in the Real Alcazar in Seville, Spain. I love the way the shadows of the window bars create the black and white foreground to the strong colours outside.

Painted Surface

In Venice the water reflects the light and the surrounding colours, here the bright blues and reds have been brush stroked onto the surface of the water, an artist's canvas in fluid motion, the image forever changing.

Flickering Light

In Venice you cannot escape the water and the light, the water captures the light and bounces it back onto the buildings, a flickering shimmering light that pervades the air and saturates the buildings. Venice is a city of moving light, driven by the flowing water.

Winter Moon Rising

Through branches laden with snow, tinged with pink from the last light of the sun; a silver white moon makes her presence felt in the cold blue of a winter evening sky.

Golden Light

Walking through Venice one evening, I turned the corner from the Riva degli Schiavoni into the Piazzetta San Marco and saw this wonderful golden light hitting the centuries old columns of the Palazzo Ducale. This effect only lasted a few minutes, a few stray rays of light from the setting sun had slipped through a gap in the buildings and filled the loggia with their warmth.

Mersey Mist

A foggy morning in Liverpool, at noon the sun was just piercing the mist and casting these shadows from the top of the Royal Liver Building. The Liver Bird on top like a phoenix rising out of the light.

Fragile Beauty

This is a close up of frost crystals on the inside of the car windscreen, after one very cold night. The sun had just hit the windscreen and the crystals were starting to melt, their fragile beauty soon to be lost forever.

Timeless

The patio of the Hotel Des Baines on the Lido, Venice. Timeless elegance, echoes of a bygone era.
This is the hotel that was used in the film Death in Venice and also as the Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo in The English Patient.

Morning Mist, Tuscany

A beautiful may morning in Tuscany, I had been photographing the sunrise over the hills from a high vantage point and as I walked back down the lane to the farmhouse we were staying in this scene appeared before me.

Venice at Dawn

Dawn in Venice, the sun has just risen, flooding the island of San Giorgio Maggiore with a misty light, a magic moment in the day with the gondolas still at their moorings and the city has yet to burst into life.