New Website...

My main site is having a rebuild. It will now function both as a window on my work, and an archive and image delivery system. It also allows for automatic on-line licensing of images. Currently their is an automatic redirect page, which will disappear when I sort out the CName. Comments about usability and any problems encountered with different systems and browsers are most welcome.

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The old site is here.

The Loss of a Friend...

A little while ago I photographed author, Stephen Foster, with his dogs for a Daily Mail feature on his life with these faithful companions. The session was a little hurried due to Ollie (on the right in the above photograph) having just returned from the vets and obviously being in need of rest.

A few days after the article ran Stephen called me to ask for some prints of Ollie as sadly he had been diagnosed with cancer and only had a few days left.

I dropped some prints at Stephen's and came across the melancholy sight of Ollie seemingly awaiting his fate, looking at me in the way that dogs always manage to when something is out of the ordinary.

There is something about the passing of a dog that affects people in a profound way. Cat owners don't seem to suffer the same fate. Maybe it's a cat's independence as opposed to a dog being totally dependent on it's owner. As a boy I too, like Stephen held my dog as the vet performed the final act to end it's suffering and it is something you never forget.

Stephen has since written a piece for the Times about the passing of Ollie. He writes that everybody has a story about the passing of a pet dog. It's true; they do.


Daily Mail article here.
Times article here.
Licence Stephen Foster photographs here.
Buy Walking Ollie here.
Buy Along Came Dylan here.