So why the re-design of the website? With so much work on display the previous incarnation was starting to feel a bit bloated. Most of the sections were very rarely visited, with traffic concentrated on newer projects I’d added as I went along. There were about twice as many projects on display at the end as when I first put the site up. So I have amalgamated some of the older projects that were all shot around the same time: Pop Idol, Wasteland, Tribute, Ruins and Studios.
A Love of Flowers is the result. It’s a coming together of the most interesting images from these projects. At the time of their creation these projects never really felt separate, with new ideas always growing out of existing ones, so combining them like this feels far from arbitrary. One thing they all had in common was that they involved driving around, getting lost a lot, and, uh, looking at things. And learning a bunch about photography.
The title A Love of Flowers is a quotation from George Orwell’s essay about the English, The Lion and the Unicorn. I just read it for the first time. You can download it here if you like. It’s very, very clever and a bit dated. . well, ok, a lot. It seems to me to be a good title for a collection of pictures of modern day Blighty because things have changed so much, so fast since Orwell was writing. He observed that the English are not artistic, not intellectual, not bellicose, but are rather gentle, private individuals. . . with a love of flowers.
