Snaps from the 70s
162 photos
(Mostly of Marie, of course)
Life seemed somehow simpler then...
First "studio" nude series 1971 / 3
13 photos
These were my first studio nudes, taken with minimal facilities: I used a single light in a room at home after dark and my girlfriend was my model (and inspiration!)... See more or leave comment....
Knole Park & Fawke Common
14 photos
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Growing up in Sevenoaks, Kent, UK I was fortunate to be close to this wonderful area of woodland on the edge of the town. The park is centred on the historic Knole...
Broomhill
7 photos
An area of fields and woodland within walking distance of Marie's home, just north of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, UK. Despite being quite close to built-up areas it was wonderfully peaceful with wide...
Poole Harbour and nearby
49 photos
Poole Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world and has several islands within it, the largest being Brownsea Island. The east-facing harbour mouth, crossed by a chain ferry has...
First outdoor nudes 1971-73
32 photos
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These photos were are from the first 2 years after I met my muse (and later, wife) Marie . Her beauty and creative enthusiasm (she was an art student) completely...
Honeymoon, London and Cornwall, 1973-5
36 photos
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When we married in 1973 neither of us had travelled much and we were very naïve about cultural issues. Looking for somewhere to go on honeymoon North Africa seemed...
Wembury, Devon idyl 1975-6
15 photos
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I lived with Marie in Plymouth, UK, near Wembury Beach through the summers of 1975-6, memorable in the UK for their endless heat and sunshine. These photos are my...
Brighton 1976-80
47 photos
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After our twins were born we lived for a year at Sussex University (East Slope) and then in a shared student house in Brighton. We had no money but it was very...
Paris 1980
8 photos
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After our twins were born in 1976 we had little opportunity to travel as we were looking after them also because I had returned to university (bad timing!) and we...
Greek Islands 1981
16 photos
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I travelled with Marie around some of the Cyclades Islands in 1981 with just my camera and a few clothes (few were needed).
The visit was especially liberating for us as, apart...
Camping, Studland 1981
3 photos
A great camping holiday with our twins aged 5, at the aptly-named (on this occasion) "Burnbake" campsite, halfway between Corfe Castle and the wonderful beach north of Studland - where we...
1981-9, London and 2 more children
20 photos
After moving back to London from Brighton at the end of 1980, life became a lot harder. I was having to work ridiculous hours to advance in an extremely competitive career and we had our third...
Carnac 1985/6
7 photos
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In 1985 we took our 4 children, the youngest aged 2, in our ancient Volvo 265 estate over the Ferry to Brittany for a camping holiday near Carnac. It was...
Algarve 1988
8 photos
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Our first holiday abroad with all the family - our youngest was 4 and old enough to enjoy it fully. We had a nice villa on the edge of Carvoero with several beaches...
1989 onwards - Bristol & south west England
115 photos
In 1989 we moved from London, where we had lived for nearly 10 years, to Bristol with a new job, which allowed us easier access to Cornwall. Recently we moved even closer, to Plymouth, where we lived...
French Riviera 1990s
5 photos
Over the 1990s we had several opportunities to visit te French Riviera as I attended regular scientific meetings (Cardiostim) in Nice during May. We explored the coast along the spectacular road...
Corfu 1992/3
8 photos
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In 1992 (after 2 more children) we had a brilliant holiday in Corfu (Kerkyra) at Glyfa on the east coast.
I have recently re-scanned the slides I posted a few years...
Canary Islands '95-'06
12 photos
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Photos from visits to Teneriffe, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote over the years.
Cornwall & Devon
126 photos
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Many of my photos are taken in or near Gorran Haven, on the south coast of Cornwall in the St.Austell Bay area. In 1975/6 I lived in Plymouth and took a series of...
Burnett, England
30 photos
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A small hamlet between Bristol and Bath whhere I lived for nearly 20 years. The surrounding countryside is typical of rural southwest England.
Clifton, Bristol
8 photos
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The most popular district of the most popular city in England – where I am lucky to be living now!
Gourvillete et ses environs
124 photos, 1 video
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Photos taken in and around the idyllic and picturesque town of Gourvillette 17490, Charente Maritime, France.
Some landscapes, people and events in nearby villages...
Bermuda
118 photos
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An island of beautiful beaches, colours and people.
I am fortunate to have been visiting several times a year since 2006 to work, and also to enjoy the life and...
Italian Lakes
2 photos
Marie
278 photos
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… is my life.
Photos from 1969 → present.
I have written biographical notes on each photo which help to tell the story, mostly in the introduction but also...
Photos of me.
22 photos
Mostly these are not self-portraits but photos other people have taken with me included. I have posed them here because they help to set the scene for a series or part of a story.
Places with & without people
328 photos, 1 video
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Wherever we go we are surrounded by a landscape - a view of our immediate or distant environment - which gives us endless opportunities to capture each special...
Moments in time
354 photos
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A mixture of portraits of friends and relations and personal snaps over the years that I feel represent the Zeitgeist or spirit of the time (at least, as I...
Beauty and fashion
315 photos
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Thanks to all my beautiful friends and relations who "have made it all possible"
Art nude
89 photos
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There are many nude photos in other sections of my portfolio but these are the ones taken with a primarily artistic intention.
I have been incredibly fortunate as a...
Nude but probably not fine art
15 photos
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Not all nude photos qualify as fine art even at a stretch - they can be portraits, beauty images, records of the moment or just fun - some of the nicest are...
Family snaps
131 photos
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Most of my photos were not taken with any serious artistic intent, just to record moments in our lives. I posted some of them up on Flickr, initially as...
Black & white + duotones
110 photos
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Historically monochrome was a limitation of photographic technology as colour film only became available after around 1950 so much of "classic" photography...
Square images
122 photos
One of my early cameras was a TLR and I still like the design concept of square images where the landscape/portrait view choice is undefined.
Some of my landscapes are composed in portrait format,...
Surreal images
29 photos
The surrealist movement in the early 20th century was the artistic expression of the psychological theories of the unconscious mind, especially that of Carl Jung. He proposed that evolution has...
Look again...
19 photos
Sometimes nature creates images for you...
Staying away
25 photos
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There is something special and romantic about staying together in hotels or holiday apartments away from home. Unfortunately the experience is often too involving to...
Indoor candid nudes
7 photos
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Being naked indoors can be very relaxed as you can be (fairly) sure of not unexpectedly meeting someone who might be shocked / disapproving / over-excited or just...
"Studio" photos (other than Marie)
96 photos
"Studio" meaning anywhere indoors set up to take pictures. Not long after I took our first abstract nude series with Marie in 1971, I had requests and opportunities to photograph other...
Eve, Goddess, Nymph, Mermaid
33 photos
The feminine essence of religion, myth and legend represents both an ideal of beauty and harmony and a socially dangerous escape from a life of conformity. In both aspects these creatures of the...
Naked portraits
40 photos
There is a special look of a head-and-shoulders portrait taken when naked – often this can be missed because the viewer naturally wants to take in the whole view. Something in the openness of the...
Seaside
258 photos
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Beaches are wonderful places where, in summer, people go on holiday to enjoy the pleasures of swimming and sun-bathing; a place to escape from the constraints of...
Streams, rivers, canals and lakes
3 photos
Pool photos
20 photos
Swimming pools can be wonderfully refreshing on a hot day and seem to make people feel very relaxed – which is good for photography...
Ocean
70 photos
The sea has many moods and exerts a profound influence on our own, most powerfully felt when immersed in it.
Photo-art
18 photos
Images starting as photos but transformed in various ways to achieve particular effects
Trees
65 photos
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Trees are a favorite subject for photographers, not just for the endless variety of shapes but for their heroic permanence symbolising life going on with a longer...
Dance & theatre
8 photos
From 1977-1981 took publicity photos for several contemporary dance companies. I travelled with them to venues around England and photographed them during dress-rehearsals. I got to know them and the...
Pregnancy
5 photos
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Being pregnant is a very special time in a woman's life - in one sense she can feel that her body is being taken over by the baby but in another it can be the...
Messing around in boats
25 photos
Oxford and Cambridge have their own special river boats called punts. Here are some photos from the early 70s of our adventures with this very inefficient but fun form of travel, followed by other...
Ink
7 photos
Some tattoos can very interesting and aesthetic – I have collected my photos that include them in this album...
Night light
16 photos
Photography at night has, until recently, been a special challenge as film emulsions and all but the latest sensors were nowhere near as sensitive as the human eye.
Even with modern sensors or...
Sunrise & Sunset
33 photos
The special light when the sun is just below or above the horizon is a perfect enhances any landscape.
I think it is one of our evolutionarily determined origins of the concept of beauty as it tells...
Hands
38 photos
I think the visual importance of hands is underestimated in photography – here are some where they are key to the picture...
Objets trouvés et créés
35 photos
Natural things and artefacts I see which make a picture - because they represent an idea, signify something or just look nice...
Winter
33 photos
Although I take many more photos in the summer it is interesting how wonter changes landscapes and people's appearance when wrapped up against the elements...
Sleeping & Stretching
11 photos
I am fascinated by the spontaneous poses of sleep and awaking – not classically elegant but expressing the natural feeling of sensual comfort which can merge into eroticism.
Subaqua
6 photos
Swimming underwater opens up another world of experience – being able to move effortlessly in 3 dimensions, feeling direct contact with your environment with your whole body, being surrounded by...
Mono → colour
8 photos
It is quite simple to convert colour images to monochrome, in the old days by just printing onto B&W paper and in the digital era by reducing the colour saturation to zero in editing software....
Less-is-more or more-is-more?
37 photos
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Reviewing and making new scans of some of my old photos I find I sometimes prefer the full frame "real" versions of images which were, at the time,...
Golden minutes
31 photos
There have been times when a wonderful combination of subject, setting and mood, often unexpectedly, create an amazing series of photos taken over just a few minutes.
I have not included planned...
Young mother
23 photos
A few photos taken of Marie in her maternal rôle which was a very important part of her life but doesn't feature much in my Flickr stream as I didn't think family snaps were of much interest to the...
Waking in Gourvillette
5 photos
(Add a comment) - A series of photos of our lovely guest taken over a few minutes just before and after sunrise...
The last two photos were taken separately a year earlier when she had just woken...
Andrea, 1997
3 photos
Beáta
16 photos
Beautiful and athletic (previously a high-level kayak competitor in Hungary), Bea kindly volunteered to model for several photographic projects including the "Naiad" series where she...
Belle
34 photos
Annabel is now the Australian TV presenter and journalist Tinkerbelle Parker, producer of the popular arts series "Bright Things TV" - see the first edition on Vimeo
Belle, Klerwi and Peri in France
9 photos
A great day in 2012 which started with my "self portrait" under a favourite tree and went on to a brilliant series of them expressing the essence of humanity in nature, in the Charantaise...
Caroline 2002
6 photos
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Ten years ago. An empty room. Half an hour to spare.
It was amazing to be able to take such a range of photos in such a short time - between us the ideas just...
Caroline 2007 ±
9 photos
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Caroline has been a friend and muse over the years from teenager to beautiful adult. These (2-5) are some of the photos I took in 2007, 5 years after the original...
Caroline 2012
29 photos
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Caroline came round for supper with her family and before eating we caught up with a quick series of photos as it was 5 years since the last set (and 10 years since...
Daina & Janine
14 photos
On a recent visit to Gourvillette, Tinkerbelle's friends Daina and Janine were enthusiastic models for a "wood nymph" series as well as looking great relaxing in the garden.
I have...
Debbie - birthday suite
7 photos
To celebrate her birthday Debbie asked me to photograph her nude by the sea in Cornwall (UK). She had a special affinity for this shoreline and was a perfect subject as she naturally blended with the...
Flora
20 photos
A lovely photogenic girl from France who was very happy to be in front of the camera.
Teenage Holly
5 photos
Holly is one of three daughters of our good friends from London – I took these photos at her mother's suggestion when they were visiting us in the spring of 1999. As a teenager she baturally wanted...
Jennifer
4 photos
Jennifer is a lovely glamorous long-time friend and the mother of Caroline, my beautiful muse for over 10 years.
Jenny in France
4 photos
Jenny visited us in Gourvillette in the summer of 2010 and kindly agreed to model for a series I had in mind about the beautiful open Charente countryside with vineyards, fields of sunflowers and the...
Kate, Oxford 1974
6 photos
These photos were taken in 1974 when Marie and I visited our good friend Kate who was very beautiful and in conversation mentioned that she did not have any glamorous-type pictures of herslf (having...
Keda Breeze - burlesque dancer
1 photo
Keda Breeze is an amazing burlesque dancer, entertainer and teacher.
Liz, art model
3 photos
Liz was one of Marie's life-drawing models at art school and became our friend while we were in London, though we lost touch after we moved to Cornwall in 1974. She had an amazingly calm aura and...
Liz (Btn.) framed
2 photos
Our friend and neighbour in Kemp Town, the rather bohemian eastern end of Brighton, came round for supper in early 1979 and, seeing some of my photos of Marie, said she would like to have a framed...
May & sax
13 photos
A series of May playing her silver saxophone in the open air on a beautiful summer evening near Gourvillette in the Charente region of France, and some more on a visit to Bristol on a bright but cold...
Olivia
2 photos
Beautiful friend and daughter of a friend.
R
12 photos
Now archived
Sarah
28 photos
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Back in Bermuda March 2015, I had a great evening on the beach with an old friend Sarah who wanted some photos taken by the sea - fortunately it was a lot warmer...
Susie
7 photos
Susie kindly offered to model for a photo I planned in a poppy field - "Remembrance" and it was such a brilliant setting and day we took a lot more photos. She joined others for the set...
Winspit Caves 1971
6 photos
This was an incredibly brilliant photo session with Marie - occurring, as usual quite unexpectedly, when we came across these amazing caves while exploring the Dorset coastline. We spent hours there...
Vintage wood nymph 1972
3 photos
I found the strip of negs from 40 years ago when we took some photos at Fawke Common near Sevenoaks on a warm afternoon in spring. It started when, after a picnic, M slipped off her dress to show me...
On the road '72
5 photos
Before the Sevenoaks bypass was built I had explored the Forestry Commission managed woodland near Kippington but the road to it (Dibden Lane) was disconnected by the deep motorway cutting.
On this...
Tyneham climb
2 photos
A mini-series of 6 photos taken in a few minutes of Marie at the coast near Tyneham in Dorset, UK.
This is an interesting place to visit as it was a village taken over by the War Office during WW2...
Punting, Oxford '74
5 photos
A wonderful day exploring the Cherwell river (which joins the Thames at Oxford) in June 1974 with friends Morian and Trish.
The traditional river boats, punts, are pushed along and steered using a...
Famara Beach 2002
2 photos
An exhilerating spot on the north-west coast of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands (off the west coast of Africa) we visited in Feb. 2002, staying in a fairly spartan health / fitness hotel.
Diving trip 1979
6 photos
In 1979 I joined a trip organised by the Sussex University divng club to Falmouth, Cornwall. We stayed at a very comfortable guest house run by The parents of Steve Higgs, one of the divers. Marie...
Commanderie
12 photos
A friend kindly invited us to stay at this remarkable fortified house built by Knights Templar at Rulhe le Haut in the Lot Valley, south west France.
Party
6 photos
A fun photoshoot at our party , 2007. Keda had said she would like to have some glam but non-burlesque phtos of her and came round on the afternoon of New-Year's-Eve so we set up a temporary...
Enchanted Wood
1 photo
An unplanned photo session created the opportunity to illustrate an idea I had been carrying around for a while: about how elusive the content of transcendental experiences can be.
Beàta hed...
"Playground Called Earth" fashion
9 photos
A fashion shoot in our old cellar.
It seemed a pity to have to concentrate on the clothes...
Dryad
5 photos
With the help of Belle's direction, her friends Daina and Janine, visiting us in France, became enthusiastic wood nymphs in the Charantaise countryside on a brilliant dawn photoshoot.
The Dryads are...
Damara - goddess of fertility
1 photo
Damara is a Celtic goddess of fertility and care of children who also had the power to bring a good harvest.
My beautiful neighbour in France bravely volunteered to represent her in a spectacular...
Jazz at The Fringe, Bristol
8 photos
Scenes from Sundy night at "The Fringe" (formerly "The Greyhound", known as "The Dog"), a traditional pub in Clifton Bristol, UK.
It's a very informal (free) event...
Cornish Mermaid, 2017
3 photos
A wonderful warm summer evening at a secret beach where mermaids enjoy the Atlantic Ocean...
A summer's day in Charente
9 photos
Near Gourvillette with Belle, Klerwi, Peri and Steve in 2012
Tyntesfield
4 photos
Tyntesfield House is a splendid gothic-victorian House near Bristol, UK, formerly the home of the Gibbs family but now managed by the National Trust.
The building was funded by the trade in guano...
M dressed !
159 photos
Several people have commented that they didn't think Marie ever wore clothes but here are some photos proving that she really did (quite often)...
Monochrome "safe"
98 photos
Historically monochrome was a limitation of photographic technology as colour film only became available after around 1950 so much of "classic" photography is printed in B&W or sepia....
"Safe" nude
108 photos
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The naked body can be beautiful without having to display any "naughty bits".
These are nude images that are classified "safe" under the Flickr...
Out-takes
23 photos
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Often when taking a series of photos, especially of people, there is one where something accidental happens or an "in-between" shot which is not part of...
My photos blogged on Tumblr etc.
60 photos
When I joined Tumblr last year I was surprised to find how many of my Flickr photos were already there in other people's blogs. So I have put them in this album
PS 2019: Tumblr has now made most...
Stats
3 photos
Landmarks of views or faves
Archived photos
27 photos
Most of these photos were posted some time ago and have already been viewed over 50,000 times and have over 200 faves – so, to keep the photo-stream down to manageable size they have been taken...
Friends album
1 photo
Some images only visible to friends, some are full-size photos where only smaller images are in public view - mainly to reduce the copying of some images in random websites around the world.
Some...
Patron's gallery
2 photos
This album is exclusively visible to Patreon subscribers. My top favourite photos will be posted approximately one per day to make a constantly renewing gallery of 30 images. Please visit often to...
Ex Patrons Gallery
10 photos
Photos that have been posted to my patrons' gallery.
Accidental duplicates
3 photos
Mods / details
22 photos
Mostly set to private view but used to show older versions or details etc.
Summ's eBook +
2 photos
These are photos by Summaron / Summ…II which I posted mostly as part of a discussion about his planned eBook, with some later additions.
They are slightly modified by me in post-processing but...
Margie re-edited
9 photos
Background and comments
Like many of my friends I have been delighted to see the beautiful photos of this Canadian model, Margie Jenkins, taken by her husband on holiday in the Bahamas in 1979, plus...
Kristen re-edits
1 photo
This ia a collection of re-worked images of this dramatically beautiful lady photographed by her husband in the 1990s on the north African coast and the south of France.
Published on my site at his...
Bob M's photos re-edited
1 photo
Bob has a wonderful collection of photos of his long-time muse, plus some interestig recent model-shoots in the "pin-up" genre.
Suze by JW, re-edits
1 photo
Suzanne and Johnny have kindly allowed me to make some re-edits of their splendid photos taken between 1968 and 1999. It has been a privilege and a pleasure.
I am honoured that Suzanne has posted...
Bill's (spelio's) photos restored
2 photos
Wonderful records of his life in Australia in the 60s and 70s
Martin's photos from the 70s, re-edited
1 photo
Martin (mws080852) Has posted wonderful photos from his time in South Africa and his return to Europe in the 1970s and it has been a pleasure to help restore some of them.
Re-edits of other people's photos
16 photos
Some of my favourite photos on Flickr have aspects which could be IMHO improved and so, being part of a photographic community I have made my suggestions. It is often difficult to explain exactly...
200,000+ views
69 photos
50 of my public photos have been viewed over 200,000 times and there are 25 others which have been archived after being posted for several years. These are the ones that are still visible (not...
50,000+ views
579 photos
This was set up to show my most viewed photos – it started as a small album but is now rather overloaded with over 800 photos, but may be of interest as they are in order of view count. My...
5000+ views
201 photos
(Not including those in my "50,000+ views" album).
My popular images…
Actually, with the views numbers inflation this is becoming an almost useless album as it now contains almost all...
500+ faves
9 photos
The most favoured photos in my portfolio (most faved first)...
Some have been archived and subsequently restored to public view by request so the Flickr fave count was reset and may show fewer faves...
200+ faves
150 photos
Popular photos in my portfolio (in order of no. of "faves")...
Not surprisingly most of them are of Marie.
Over 240 photos with 200+ faves have been archived (only visible as thumbnails)...
Re-edits 100+ faves
15 photos
Favourite re-edits in order. These are not my original photos and where possible the photographer is credited and retains full copyright. Mostly they are posted at the request, or with the...
Re-edits <100 faves
11 photos
50+ faves "safe"
442 photos
Inevitably photos including nudity are more popular and almost all have over 50 faves so these are just the landscape / portrait / abstract photos with 50+ faves (but less than 200 faves)
Thanks to...