This is where I have a few mini photo-projects that are more than straightforward writing. I am interested in the tradition and aesthetic of combining text with image. Children's books do this, but adult writing generally does not - and for good reason. The interpretive and imaginative power of an adult is more developed, so an acompanying image limits rather than enhances the overall effect.

However, the web is a relatively new medium and while the quality of content is paramount - just as it is with other media - some of the rules are slightly different. The web is not the printed page, and it can and does have elements of 'multimedia'. It's a different kind of experience, where the image is more relevant and closely related.

You may have to adjust the size of the window. There's no easy way round the interminable problem of designing for different monitors, browsers etc. At least you can get rid of the address bar, browser menu etc. with a bit of JavaScript wizardry.

I have mixed feelings about Flash. When the positive ones prevail, I might insert one or two Flash projects here.

City Stories

I am developing this idea elsewhere; for now, this project is my writing only.

On Being English

Jeremy Paxman recently wrote a book about this: what are the defining qualities of 'being English?' They are not easy to identify and they are not static. This piece of writing refers to a lifestyle and set of values that mostly no longer exists.

People Suck

A sad little tale of an online conversation in relation to September 11th, and the nature of Internet based communication.

London

Greenwich, it's nostalgic value, and my current favourite locations.

Walking

I like high-tech sophistication, and I also recognise that humming computers and electro-radioactive VDUs do not a healthy environment make. There's something about organic imagery which helps restore the health that technology subtly undermines. It's pleasing to the eye, and reminds you of natural panoramas unconstricted by your small-frame monitor and, perhaps, the office where you work.

As you may have noticed, I enjoy hiking - mountains, lakes etc. and here's some of my photographs. Mostly from the Lake District, but also abroad in sunnier climes.