I enjoy tracking my creative heroes with my pinhole camera, visiting the scenes of their inspiration. It makes for some pleasant, interesting day trips and holidays. Here you can see a selection of pinhole images created during my journeys.

January 2009 - Rome - some of the first photographs I remember seeing were taken by my Uncle John when he was a young boy on a school trip to Rome in the 1960's. Grandad had been there in the war and spoke of Italy with a great affection. I first visited Rome in 1986 and that journey was made, I think, as a result of seeing the photos and hearing the stories. Whenever I go back there now I still think of those photos, of half empty streets and the ancient monuments of Palatine and the Forum.

December 2008 - Lacock Abbey - the home of Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography (negative/positive process) as we know it. The first ever image Fox Talbot managed to get, in the 1830's, was of the window above the door that features on the right of my own pinhole photograph. He was using a wooden box, much the same as I do (only I have the great benefit of having stable photographic paper and chemicals to work with) and he made his image from inside the room, looking out.  

October 2008 - Godrevy Lighthouse - the focus of Virginia Woolf's beautiful book, 'To The Lighthouse'. The lighthouse is located on a headland near St Ive's in Cornwall. The day was grey when I visited and the unseasonably cold August weather suited the seals, who played in a nearby cove, perfectly.