Below, you will find out a bit more about me and what my thought process is when it comes to photography.
Before that though, just have a think about something,
if your life was turned into a book, what would you want your front cover to be?
Hello, I’m Richard. I’m a photographer drawn to light, places, and the quiet bits most people walk past.
Photography has always been my way of slowing things down.
Honestly, isn't it amazing how time slips away?
The very thing in life we can never get back, no matter how hard we try, yet, what we can do, is capture it.
Capturing moments in time is what I love most about photography.
The world moves constantly, and so many beautiful moments pass by unnoticed.
A quiet landscape at sunrise, the warm glow of sunset, the delicate presence of an insect resting on a leaf, or standing beneath a dark sky photographing the Milky Way.
Each photograph is my way of choosing a small slice of that passing time and preserving it.
Through my lens, those fleeting moments become something lasting, the world as I see it, transformed into pixels.
“Turning Light Into Memories”
What could be a more clear statement of what I want to achieve?
As a Photographer, that's what I do, I capture light, that's part of my goal, the second part though, is turning that moment into a memory.
Every image is made from tiny pieces of light and time, stitched together to hold onto something you’d usually only feel for a second, then it’s gone.
A photo can make you smile, a great photo will make you feel.
I started with landscapes and local scenes, big skies, early mornings, night shots, quiet paths, familiar places I keep going back to.
Photography has a way of making you look at things in a different way, a new perspective, it teaches you to pay close attention to moments that you wouldn't have seen, the lessons are never ending, that's the beauty in it.
Lately, I’ve been moving more into people, and the connection between them.
I’m not interested in forcing smiles, I’m interested in catching what’s already there.
The little looks, the laughs, the bond, the emotion that actually means something when you see it back later.
Whether I’m photographing a place, a person, or something easy to miss, the goal’s always the same.
Calm, honest images that feel real, and still feel good to come back to.
If you want to browse my work, or chat about a shoot, drop me a message.
One of the first moments that made me realise photography really mattered to me happened in my bedroom, with a basic bridge camera.
I was aiming at the moon when I noticed something faint drifting across the frame.
A plane, almost invisible at first, passed straight in front of it. I managed to catch it at the perfect second, the plane centred against the moon, a clean silhouette frozen in place.
No editing. No Photoshop. No polishing it up. Just the file as it came out of the camera, one simple JPEG.
But when I looked at that photo back, it hit me, camera doesn’t just record what you see, it keeps a moment that would’ve disappeared forever.
That’s when I started to understand the difference between a good photo and a meaningful one.
A good photo can look impressive, but a meaningful one can carry emotion, memory, and context long after the moment has passed.
I’ve always been drawn to the night sky.
On the rare clear evenings we get in England, when the clouds finally break and the stars show up, it does something to my head in the best way.
When I stare up into that endless space, it reminds me our time is limited, and it puts what matters into perspective.
My focus adjusts.
For me, capturing moments and keeping them, turning a split second into something you can come back to, is one of the things that matters most.
These days I’m still learning constantly.
I had passed my college course with distinctions, and I’m currently studying online with The School of Photography, working through their courses as I go.
Distinctions In BTEC Media (Videography, Photography, Audi, Print & Publishing) Level 1 College Course
Beginners Photography Online Course
Complete Guide To Photoshop Online Course
Complete Guide To Lightroom Classic Online Course
Fine Art Family Portrait Online Course
Fine Art Landscape Online Course
Pro Landscape Photography Online Course
Night Time City Photography Online Course
Portrait Retouching Online Course
Macro Photography Online Course
Forest Photography Online Course
Below a series of photos, comparing my very early on photos, to photos taken more recently.
This is a little section just to show have far you can go in a short amount of time, some of the photos are even taken using the exact same gear.
But it just goes to show how important knowledge and practice really is
Fly Me To The Moon
Take with a canon bridge camera
The photo I took many years ago that made me value "being in the moment."
Half Moon
Canon R8, 800mm Lens
After years of learning, with still so much more to learn, capturing beautiful photos of the moon becomes very gratifying.
Milky Way-Ish
Taken With A Canon RP
This is my first attempt at capturing the Milky Way. It's not a great photo, at the time I was happy, but I lacked so much knowledge, so it's important to remember when you start out, that everything has a learning curve to understand.
Road To The Milky Way
Canon RP, with more knowledge
My first attempt as capturing the Milky Way was in Norfolk, years later, I went back and captured this.
I planned when the right time would be and I found a straight road with trees either side and then I knew what I was going to do.
Have you thought about what your front cover would be?
It’s a harder question than it first seems.
If you asked me, mine would look very much like the photograph above, Road to the Milky Way.
It might not be the cover everyone would choose, and that’s perfectly okay.
Allow me to get a little philosophically nerdy for a moment.
We live on a planet rotating at roughly 1,000 miles per hour, orbiting the Sun at around 60,000 miles per hour, while our entire Solar System moves through the Milky Way at over 500,000 miles per hour.
In those moments, the universe is moving faster than I can comprehend…
yet somehow, everything feels perfectly still.