Photography:

 

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught … is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." – Aaron Siskind

 

The little things:

 

I have always been interested in grass – well not so much grass specifically but what goes on in grass.

 

If you saw someone staggering along carrying a fully-grown tree you would notice, right?

 

Add to that the drama of skyscraper-sized giants racing around unable to see the person carrying the tree and plane-sized winged predators and you’ve got Hollywood-style entertainment.

 

When you think of it that way, an ant carrying a twig through the grass is pretty f’ing amazing.

 

While being a sightless skyscraper is a powerful thing (I have no doubt trodden on my fair share of super-ants!) to never see the incredible micro worlds beneath our feet, or beside us in a bush, or above us in a tree is to miss out.

 

I spend hours watching and photographing things that people walk by without seeing.

 

I have had people stop and ask me “what are you photographing – there’s nothing there…” as if to check I’m not seeing things. But I am seeing things and these are the things I want to share with you …

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