I’m a nude photographer, sometimes literally, as befitting a nudist (if shooting with a fellow nudist or nude-friendly people), but I mean more so that I like to shoot nudes. Because of the social attitudes that surround nudity, that can cause some confusion and misconceptions to people who do not…

I’ve spent the last few days building myself a little bike shelter, made mostly out of parts that used to be an outside toilet in the backyard of my Victorian-era terraced house! Ta-da: It also functions as a rainwater collection surface to fill my water butts, ready to water plants…

That time at uni when the photography technician walked in on one of my nude photoshoots… and other nude photography encounters. Note: There is nudity in the photos in this piece. Here’s an amusing little story that popped back into my head recently. The short version of which is: I…

The city of Lincoln is currently in the midst of a massive expansion plan that will add huge areas of housing in and around the city. Sadly, even with the opportunities this brings to build the city out with public and active transport at the heart of all the new…

Last week the UK government announced the new Energy Profits Levy, aka, a windfall tax on the absurd profits currently being made by oil and gas companies thanks to the runaway market price of their commodities. It took them a bloody long time to decide to this, because being Conservatives…

A week or so ago the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK declared that Adidas had acted inappropriately in distributing an advert a few months ago which featured an assortment of bare breasts. This is the tagline for the advert, and for as long as it remains, how it…

Of the many troubling aspects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one thing I find myself reflecting on often is the stark role of gender. When it comes to the perpetrators of the conflict, the enforced participants of it, the victims of violence, and refugees and how they are perceived. …

Today the UK government announced a cut in fuel duty. What a surprise, after having constantly frozen the tax motorists pay to help subsidise their destructive transport choice, of course, our government want to go one step further to greater enable car drivers. …

Someone asked me this today. The first paragraph here is what I thought in the moment, and then what flowed from further reflection: I don't think there is a singular definition. Beauty, in humans, is our amazing diversity, our singular quirks, the marks and shapes of our bodies that make…