My Nikon D3 DSLR was ten years old at the end of 2017.
At the start of 2018 I upgraded my camera and had the idea of creating a sort of visual history of the last ten years of my photographic journey.
With this in mind, I went through my entire archive of images taken with this camera and picked photographs that I like (not necessarily the most technically perfect images, some of which I hadn’t previously published/exhibited and some I have), edited them with fresh eyes and then compiled them in chronological order into a single volume book.
It took me a year to complete this project.
During this time I had no idea of how I would actually get this body of work published.
Researching a great deal of on-line publishing services, it quickly became clear to me that I’d have to pare down the amount of images I was wanting to include in this undertaking.
I knew I wanted it to be a single volume of work. I also knew I wanted the photographs to be presented on something a little better than plain paper. Both these choices restricted me in which services I could conceivably use.
After about eight months I had my selection down to around 400 photographs, which I then went through again and pared down even further until I had my final images selected.
After that, it was a simple matter – yet still time consuming – to place them into the finished layout within the selected book template.
Below is a selection of images from the book.
Keeping it simple – the front cover of the printed book.
Underneath an escalator, inside the Tate Modern. London, 2008
Woodburn forest, Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, 2009
Pulteney Weir, Bath, England, 2010
Knockagh Monument, Northern Ireland , 2011
Getting caught-up in Valentine’s Day, 2012
Big Water of Fleet Viaduct, Scotland, 2013
Gondola cable car, London, 2014
The Dark Hedges, Armoy, Northern Ireland, 2015
Dj�pal�nssandur, Iceland, 2016
Scotland, 2017
