MY PHOTOGRAPHS

"..Okay, I'm not the worlds greatest Photograph taker but I have done various courses and modules in photography over the years and these Black and White Photographs found here were actually the basis of an idea for one of my Art Foundation Projects but never really followed up on developing it any further.."

"..Actually I'm quite pleased with how they turned out, and dare I say it if you are willing to pay money for any of these pictures I could probably knock one up in a frame for you and sell it on to you, so if you are intrested just let me know, because me actually selling some of my work would look great on my CV!!.."

"PICTURE 1: (ABOVE LEFT) Is a view taken from the corner of the Butler Street Car Park, it shows the bank of rubble that remains where the Boothen End once stood, the old wall behind the back of the Boothen End is also visible.  

PICTURE 2: (ABOVE RIGHT) You probably wonder what the hell it is but I bet that if you are a Stoke fan you would of made this walk many times after a game on your way home.. Its a view of the steps at the back of the Boothen End leading on to Boothen Road.. then Sioette of the old red gate is also visible at the bottom of the steps.. Just think, How many feet have walked on this concrete in the years gone by?? ...... Erm.. no.. I don't actually know the answer, I was being Hypothetical! Sorry!...

PICTURE 3: (ABOVE LEFT) What the hell is that? I here you cry, well some of these pictures are very personal and taken in an almost abstract way for an Art Project, this one especially.. Again it shows the Boothen end steps that lead you up from out of Boothen Road, but instead of walking down them this time its taken looking up the steps, with the sunlight casting an eire image of the red gate behind on to the cold , hard concrete steps...

PICTURE 4: (ABOVE RIGHT) Okay, again this shows the top of the steps that lead up from Boothen Road to the back of the Boothen End, but this time when you climb to the top in the picture you see a very sad site as the steps that Stoke fans were so used to climbing on match days now leads you to a pivital view of a desolate Victoria Ground...

PICTURE 4: (ABOVE LEFT)  .. Your probably thinking I have a thing about old concrete steps, don't you?, well yes.. here they are again, the old steps that lead up to the Boothen end from Boothen Road, this time from a slightly different angle, the sun delicatly catches the brim of each set with the old wall situated at the back of the Boothen End stretching off in to the background...

PICTURE 5: (ABOVE RIGHT) .. Yep, You guessed it, Steps again, this time taken at the edge of where they used to connect to the "Sir Stanley Matthews Suite" on the corner of teh Boothen and and Boothen Stand, only now there is nothing, appart from the waste land of where the Butler Street Stand  once stood... 

PICTURE 6: (ABOVE) This happens to be one of my favorites, The sun shines down after a storm, reflecting brightly in to a puddle on the old Butler Street Car Park. After having a Car Park Season ticket on the swamp known as the Butler Street car park I kind of miss the murky puddles and wet shoes that I used to get each match day...

PHOTOS 2 - "Photo's 2" are even better than these