“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is the desire to hold on to it: to posses it and give it weight in our lives. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.’ But beauty is fugitive, it is frequently found in places to which we may never return or else it results from a rare conjunction of season, light and weather. How then to posses it, […]? The camera provides one option. Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety about losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”

- Alain de Botton in ‘The art of travel’

I love the way the world can look if you really SEE.

Being able to capture that can make me very happy.

Let's all slow down enough to be able to capture beautiful things, including each other.

Slow down: it's the only way to guarantee your immortality. - Lauren Elkin

My pictures mean a lot to me so please don't steal them - I'd love for you to use them, but please only do so after contacting me.

Comments are much appreciated, but I like them personal - 'awards', banners, group images and graphics will be deleted.