I’ve finally got round to selecting my photo’s for Wanderlust Photography Contest and I’m torn between two sets. The problem is, as a professional photographer you can only submit to one category. I have a set for the Landscape photography and the Wildlife photography categories.

So I am calling on anyone and everyone to help me make the decision. Look at the photo series below and let me know which photographic series to choose by submitting your vote on the form..

(Form is now expired)

Photo Series A: Landscape Photography Category

Photo Series B: Wildlife Photography Category

With Pope Benedict visiting the UK and causing a bit of a media frenzy this week, my mind was taken back to the  death of Pope John Paul II. At this time I travelled to Krakow, a place where John Paul II had been a resident for over fourty years. The mourning for the deceased Pope was immense, and regardless of one’s beliefs it was impossible not to feel moved by the sense of loss demonstrative throughout the town. It was a unique experience which I will always remember.

Visiting new places, has always been a great source of inspiration to me. Maybe unsurprisingly, there is something about seeing new environments that evokes fresh thought and ideas. Many projects have and are founded in a seemingly random photograph, taken while exploring an alien and unfamiliar landscape.
For these reasons I am putting together a blog catergory of places. It will serve pretty much as a journal (very unique idea, I know). It will be a recording of the places I go, of the things I see and the ideas I have. Hopefully you will find the memos and images more original than the concept.

Swanage

Not strictly a new place for me, as I visited Swanage numerous times as a child. However as a grown up (supposedly), it was landscape that would  seen from a new perspective, laden with nostalgia, which offered interesting situation. It is always a risky business revisiting the past, in any context. Revisiting places you loved as a child is a particularly high stakes gamble. You run the risk of not only being dissappointed but also doubting the reliabillity of those original memories. On the contrary, I found Swanage filled with more charm and more to explore than I remembered. On top of this I was free to explore the place without the limitations imposed by parents, which were inforced last time I was on holiday there and with this new found freedom, I found myself doing exactly the same as parents! Long walks, gallery visits, tea and scones!? Talking to a befriended black bird (pictured below). May be this is the kind of behaviour this beautiful town evokes!