My Artwork now the official cover design for the novel Tideland by Mitch Cullin.

So my cover design for Tideland is now officially the printed cover. Here is a photo from the author Mitch Cullin showing a few copies. Thanks again to Mitch for using my artwork for the cover of his awesome book. I recommend giving it a read and also watching the film version directed by Terry Gilliam.

Just a quick post on the run, will do a longer one when I have time. 

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Red Fred (New Painting)

His name is Red Fred and he is a stand up comedian, a very funny guy. Just a regular dude from a different dimension.

Print will be available soon if you are interested.

I also shot a video on how I created this that I may put online at some point. This was originally a quick exercise for me to get back into painting after injury but I ended up getting into it and really liking it. Was good fun to create.

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Instrumental and video 'Monster Shark'

Think of this as a audio and visual version of an abstract painting.

A quick weird instrumental I recorded on the spot and a quick video I made to accompany it. This was my first attempt at a video and it's all from my archive footage I had on my hard drive. 

No it is not in time, no the guitar and everything else isn't played well but thats the fun of it, I tried to create a mood.


I really want to get more into shooting video and films in the future, really find it fun and I love the process. I hope to do some collaborations with other artists and film makers also, I love collaborating with people and creating something that you ever could on your own.


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DIY altered 50mm lens

Some people have asked me about this altered 50mm lens that I have been using so thought I would quickly write a little abut it, here it goes.

It's basically a cheap 50mm lens that broke. After initially being annoyed that it broke I decided to play around with it, taking it apart, putting it back together, moving things and so on. I can now use it in such a way that I can control (well semi control) the surreal nature of the results and to be honest it's the most fun I have had with photography in ages. It's amazing how the most fun things in this world come out of nothing. In my life all the best things have happened like this, either coming out of nothing or stumbling onto it  by complete accident. That 50mm lens that cost me £100 about three years ago and you know it was alright for the price, it did the job but after breaking it is now a lens that gives me something special that I never would have bought.

I have yet to use it regularly as I have other new lenses that I have been testing out but I plan on taking it everywhere with me from now on. It just makes everything look interesting, lets be honest a lot of stuff in the world is just plain boring to look at but this lens can capture the scene for what it is but also gives a surreal view on it, kind of like how I see the world I suppose, I love it.

Here are some images I have taken with it so far.

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Halloween

Hey! So it's halloween weekend. I love halloween, it's my favourite part of the year. It's one of the only times of the year that you can just have fun for the sake of it and not take anything seriously. Don't know what i'm doing yet, could be going out, could be just sitting having a few beers watching horror movies, I have no idea.

So have a good halloween folks.  I hope you enjoy my lovely sketch, it is me in my costume.

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Agent Provocateur and How I Love The Surreal Nature of Reality.

I thought this street scene was pretty funny. First I saw the girl photographing the window display who very obviously was or is about to be modelling underwear in the shop (she walked back in after taking the photo, or maybe she works there but thats not as fun). I then saw the guy walking with his girlfriend who seemed quite interested in the scene himself. I love it when these funny street scenes unfold, you really couldn't make them up, thats why to me street shooting never ever gets boring, reality is so damn surreal.

When I was younger I used to escape reality in movies and stories but now all I have to do is walk about the streets with my camera. When your just out to look you can see some very bizarre, surreal and funny scenes unfold that could never be repeated, recreated or made up. It's just amazing some of the things that occur so next time your out keep an eye out.

Below are a few other street scenes I caught recently that fall into the realm of this post. So click read more to give them a look.

My Modified Lens Experiment.

My 50mm lens broke. It was my back up 50 and didn't cost too much so I had an idea to take it apart and see how I could modify it to get some interesting images. I had it in half and put it back together with some tape and other random things and now it takes some very interesting images. I went out today and took some images on the streets, it has a mind of its own but is controllable (kind of). 

I can't wait to shoot more with it, experiment and try some portraits. It is so much fun, much more fun than it was as a cheap 50. I have a Canon 50mm f1.4 which I use as my main 50 now anyways. Now I have a very artistic lens that can get very bizarre yet effective results to experiment with, Awesome!

Check out the images below, very dream like quality. The first one is my favourite out of the bunch.

Bizarro Portrait Series

The purpose of this series is to have fun with the subject and be as weirdly creative as we both can with the intention of creating a collection of bizarre portraits. Simple.

My only rule is that every image must be captured in camera with only colour adjustment in photoshop allowed, no editing to change face shapes or anything.

This is the images so far. I want to get lots of different people to take part in this over the next few months.

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Loooking For Satellites

and only finding stardust.


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Sandend Beach

This is a photograph i took the last time I was back in Sandend. Sandend is a small fishing village in the north east of scotland where I grew up. I now live in london which can be quite good but I really miss the fresh air and freedom of walking across this beach and the hills that surround it. I miss the sea and the peacefulness I feel when here. I like cities but I do feel they bring the worst out in people (and me), especially if your stuck in the people traffic in the centre of London a lot, nightmare to say the least. I will be going back to Sandend very soon for a week or two if all goes to plan, I want to relax and be stress free at least for a little while. I used to always pine to live in a big city and now I crave to see the country side, the sea, the trees, the hills, you can never win.

This photograph reminded me of how nice it is to be there.

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Eye

A newish photograph I thought I would share. very different from most of my photos and a style I would like to explore in the future.



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Light Experiments

I love to experiment with the camera and different ways of photographing light.

Light is the most important thing in photography and recently I have been challenging myself to photograph it in more different and creative ways. This is a long running project that I hope to produce a book on sometime in the future. Maybe it will be in a series or volumes(volume 1 , 2 etc) or years I'm not quite sure yet.

These are some of my more recent results.





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