About my photos
Who's responsible for this mess?
My name is Chris and I took all these photos myself. I hope you like them. I'm 22 (or I was when I wrote this - I bet I won't update it for ages) and I class myself somewhere below an amateur photographer. I just enjoy taking pictures and sharing them with people. There's great satisfaction in angling and framing a picture, selecting a pleasant view or capturing some otherwise overlooked detail.
You don't take many pictures of people, do you?
No, not much.
People don't interest me when it comes to taking pictures - if anything, they get in the way. I like landscapes, seascapes, townscapes - scapes of one sort or another. I like architecture and nature. I like vistas and views, and the range of wonderful colours and shapes and textures that they bring. That's primarily what is on this site - pictures that please me.
There's also some galleries where I haven't been aiming for photographic excellence - galleries where I'm more interested in sharing the subject of the pictures than the pictures themselves. These include the Mayfield Station selection, which comes complete with some hastily-taken blurred images just to show I was too interested in the location to bother with the pictures too much.
So do you know all about photography?
No. I have a digital camera that I chose because it has clever features that let me do fancy things (like manual exposure, focus, zoom etc) without knowing all the technical terms or worrying about what I'm doing. I'm not too interested in the technology, I'm interested in the pictures I get at the end. Before that, I had an older digital camera that didn't have enough features for me to worry about any of the technical side of it, because there wasn't one.
Why is this site the way it is?
I made it this way because...
- The pictures are easy to get to. It's just a load of pictures linked with a bit of HTML.
- The pictures are big and clear. I've done what I can with compression and so on to reduce file sizes, but at the end of the day you're here to see photos so I haven't compromised the quality. The trade-off is in download times but that's the way it goes.
- It's fast and easy to maintain and update. No thumbnails to make, no HTML to write. A CGI program deals with everything so I have to have a set of photos and a small text file containing the descriptions. I'm too busy with other stuff really, so if this site is ever to get attention it has to be easy to deal with.
- I like orange and green as a colour combination. It pleases me.