I have picked up numerous books over the last few weeks and some have stuck whilst others haven’t. I am slowly working my way through Camera Lucida and recently finished the brilliant “The Photographers Eye” by John Szarkowski. I took a huge amount of visual enjoyment at looking through the archive narrated in the book, whilst it was pragmatically digested by Szarkowski, throughly enjoyable.

I am always on the look out for new books and tend to buy second hand or kindle editions, both seem to provide better value in my opinion. My recent purchase is “Why it does not have to be in focus’ by Jackie Higgins and I look forward to getting stuck into this. I do prefer a book I my hand but sometimes kindle options are just so cheap! I also picked up Micheal Freeman’s ‘Black and White Photography – The timeless art of monochrome” and I am also finding this really enjoyable.

Also looked back at some images today in my archive, its funny how something I didn’t like initially can become quite interesting.

I took this back in 2019 on a family trip to Westbay, the weather turned out to be pretty stormy, but provided a great setting for some images. As I mentioned I really didn’t like the cluttered appearance of this image, but in some ways I now like the juxtaposition created by the strong vertical and horizontal lines in the frame.