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Front cover of the 8x10 "This England" PDF photo eBook

We’ve Just Added New eBooks To Our Store

NEW EBOOKS ADDED TO OUR STORE We have just added a new range of PDF photo eBooks to our web store. Much the same picture content as in the the mini series except that the new eBooks are now larger – as in 8 inches by 10 inches wide – landscape format. The new and…

February 8, 2022

Screen shot of the Rogan Coles page on the All About Photos website

The ‘All About Photo’ listing

LISTED ON THE ‘ALL ABOUT PHOTO’ PORTAL. Just recently I was listed on the All About Photo website/photography portal – link to the Rogan Coles page. Regarding All About Photo, I don’t think I can put it any better than what they have to say for themselves, this from their About page: “All About Photo…

January 10, 2022

SAFFER eZine features Steve Newman

SAFFER eZine features Steve Newman Just recently SAFFER eZine has started publishing a series featuring photography from the Lost Years Project archive. The first story – published in the August issue – features guitarist Steve Newman. I am immensely grateful to Vossie Vosse – SAFFERS’ editor – for expressing an interest in my photography and…

November 18, 2020

Commercial snoek fishing in South Africa

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning I’ve used this quote and title elsewhere before. It’s the title to Laurie Lee’s semantic work of the same title, a fine book about coming of age. The image accompanying this piece comes from a body of work that seems to have garnered some interest – this according…

January 30, 2020

Don’t ever do this at home

Don’t Ever Do This At Home… Here, I’m just wondering about my own exuberance for certain things or, if this could ever be a warning. What’s actually being referred to here is the development and the building of this website. Yes, while it is a more or less home grown and home baked effort, it…

November 11, 2018

Something about a place

Something About a Place William Eggleston Many years ago I “bumped” into William Eggleston. Yes, that one, the man from Memphis. The man who photographs ceilings, objects lying around a yard and, other obscure sorts of things – all in colour. I met him of course, but didn’t know it at the time.

November 28, 2018

Something of a “soft launch”…

Something of a “soft launch” Other than being the first real post on a new site, this is also something of an “experiment”. An “experiment” in a sense to test and to see if everything has come together as expected. Just the way it goes. Doing something on a test server is not always doing…

November 28, 2018

The Inane…

…and the inept While viewing some of my work, someone was once given to say, “Why do you persist in shooting this shit when you could be shooting the rich and famous”? I was a little too gobsmacked to respond to this comment then and there and this, in a timely fashion.

November 28, 2018

The Story From Here

The Story From Here This image is perhaps my most famous. Yes, truly. But, I may need to qualify this and perhaps explain the “most famous” part. As far as I can recall, this image has never been published, publicly shown or even printed for that matter – this in a commercial sense.

November 28, 2018

Where in the world is this…

Where in the world is this?

November 28, 2018