About the photos on this web site

I am also a photographer in my spare time (!), and rather than decorating my site with clip-art of pencils or dull photos of books I have written, I thought it would be more interesting and unusual to use some of my photos. As you can see, I am interested in the natural world; I also like taking quirky photos of things that catch my eye (an abandoned oven ready chicken perched on a fence post was a classic), but these do not adapt well to the restricted format that I have chosen to use here.

The conventional ratio for 35mm photographs is 2:3, but I enjoyed the discipline involved in finding images that work in a tall (4:1) format for this site. Although I still have my trusty, battered, Nikon FE film camera, most of my images these days are taken with a Nikon digital camera, which is great for web work. You can see more examples at my Photographs of Lyme Regis, Devon and Dorset web site.

(In strict usability terms, the images on this site are unnecessary. However, a web site is also a marketing tool, and if totally unmemorable, has hardly fulfilled its business aims. I believe that we have to interpret the utilitarian rules of the gurus with some common sense and commercial nous.)