Sometimes, I feel enormous pressure to create. Street photography allows me to grab my camera, walk out the door, and within minutes I’m in a different world. — Late afternoon, writing, occasionally stopping to look out the window at the evening light drawing in; I had a letter to deliver, which meant I’d take the underground three stops, walk 400 metres along the road, then push the large brown envelope through a dark slit in the wall. Walk…

I’ve never bought into the big travel gig. I simply desired to meet lots of new people — and learn about who they are. So I bought a Camera. — I’m an introverted type. I’ve always sought new places within the mind.

Recently, my Tom Cat, Balthy-Boy, passed on to the Great Hall of Kittens. — He and I spent 17 years together, day in and day out. We had a relationship of blokes together, guys who sit at the kitchen table early mornings. I’d drink coffee, he’d sup the juice in his meat bowl, then a few cat biscuits. He’d then deftly spring up onto…

Allowing imagination to run wild is the beginning of creativity — it’s more than brainstorming. Creativity running wild will embrace every idea that confronts it. — “The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.” - Karl Jaspers. (Video included)

Photography is a way to see more deeply into the moment, to fall in love with the fleeting things that normally pass us by. — When you do street photography, you are mostly looking at people and architecture. There isn’t a strong, pin-point definition of street photography. It really is about how you and your camera, and your reaction to the street. It’s about what you make out of it. Photographers look at mundane experiences…

September is neither here nor there. Summer ends when autumn winds bite at frozen fingers. — I complained, a little, when the weather got too hot for northern climes. I moved away from Spain because I missed the seasons, definitive seasons of warmth, chill, freezing weather, and back to the “first signs of springtime” lifestyle. So, I headed back to my beloved city of Berlin. Known…

Everything we observe serves as a creators map, we choose a road and follow it, as we go, we discover our true intentions along the way. — It’s the nature of creativity. We make choices from all the possibilities before us, and walk along a chosen path that might just take us somewhere intriguing. Artistic intention is the basis of our motivation. …

“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.” — Alfred Eisenstaedt — It doesn’t take long for the serious beginner to ask themselves the important question; would I want to take photos for a living? And it’s when you say; Hell yeah!, That’s when the fear kicks in, and you’ve set yourself a big task. The first thing to know, is yourself. That’s universal wisdom that has been handed down through the ages. And it’s surprising how many people don’t take it seriously enough.

People talk of rules. In photography there are no rules, only guidelines. — To better understand how to take a good photo we must understand how our own mind sees the world. Breaking rules is how we discover our own creativity. We focus on the meat of the thing, and not the tool. If you’re always about the quality of the tool, then…