A Selection

Portfolio

Twenty photographs, picked from everything on this site so far. Not necessarily the most technically correct — just the ones that still stop me when I scroll past them.

A calm river at dusk with a footbridge and trees reflected in the still water.

01 — Home

The river, just before dark.

A man in a red shirt reading a book on a bench beside railings, with Christ Church's Tom Tower in the background.

02 — The Reader

Tom Tower, and better company.

A man in a bright orange hi-vis jacket on the phone, standing against an old stone church wall.

03 — Men at Work

Orange against eight hundred years of stone.

Extreme close-up of a boy's face, his wide eyes looking into the lens, with warm bokeh light flaring behind him.

04 — A Short Walk Home

Wide-eyed, home from school.

A man in a vivid orange shirt reading a newspaper on a bench, with a crutch propped beside him.

05 — The Reader

The news, taken seriously.

Black and white close-up of the carved stone herms on the Sheldonian Theatre.

06 — Street

The Emperors, unimpressed as ever.

Foggy woodland scene with a gnarled, broken tree trunk among tall trees, a distant figure in the mist, and a puddle reflecting the pale sky.

07 — A Short Walk Home

Fog on the old path.

A surveyor with a yellow tripod taking measurements outside a scaffolded old building, with a man sitting reading nearby.

08 — Men at Work

Measuring the old against the new.

A man with a bicycle leaning against railings, holding up a book and looking directly at the camera.

09 — The Reader

Caught looking back.

Black and white photo of a gutted, graffitied phone box on a street corner with a bus blurred in motion behind it.

10 — Street

Everything moving except the box itself.

A hi-vis worker walking past a Norman-arched church door and gravestones.

11 — Men at Work

Errand day, saints keeping watch.

Black and white view of a domed building framed by hanging autumn leaves.

12 — Street

Leaves first, then the dome.

A hi-vis road worker sweeping steam and dust off a city street in morning light.

13 — Men at Work

Clearing the morning off the road.

Black and white photo of a cyclist backlit by low morning sun on a wide Oxford street.

14 — Street

Straight into the light.

A delivery worker in a hi-vis vest wheels kegs on a hand truck past a colonnaded doorway as a passer-by checks his phone.

15 — Men at Work

Delivery before the doors open.

Black and white street scene on Cornmarket with a cyclist silhouetted against shopfronts.

16 — Street

Cornmarket, before the crowds.

A man with a beaded necklace reading a paperback, cigarette in hand, on a park bench.

17 — The Reader

No hurry to finish the page.

Black and white photo of a woman crossing a street toward the camera, with the Martyrs' Memorial and a bus behind her.

18 — Street

Crossing, eyes down.

A man in an orange coat reclining on a bench talking on the phone, in front of a grand college building.

19 — Men at Work

Ten minutes, taken back.

Black and white photo of an empty Oxford street under dappled morning light, with a distant figure walking.

20 — Street

The street to itself, for now.

More where these came from — Projects, Street and the rest live just through here.

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