As you’ll see, most of my work in Black and White. It is my preferred medium and I love the way I can express a scene to give a mood or an emphasis that appeared to me in the moment. I find that I can tell the story more easily and engage you, the viewer, in a way that colour cannot quite achieve (although, there are some that the opposite is true – I call these “Failed B&W’s”).

Throughout my Photography History, this subject kept coming up. “Why Black and White Landscapes?” has been a common question.

At the start, you have to understand that this was before I knew anything about Ansel Adams or other masters of the medium so it was very difficult to answer at that point. For me, it just was a good fit for me – it felt right.

My photography colleagues continued to debate with me that I was losing the essence of the scene by removing the colours – one called it “cheating the moment”. I never saw it that way – sometimes colour just got in the way of the story (unless it was the story, that is) and it allow the scene to be clearer and uncluttered.

To me, it is just me telling a story of a moment that I witnessed in my own way and hoping to do its beauty justice whilst doing so. It was only after these debates that I discovered the genius of the likes of Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, etc., which only added to my inspiration.

It is never a cheat or removing the essence of the moment – it adds something ineffable to the scene and a pinch of me to the ingredients. I would often go out to look for scenes that lend itself to Black and White, but then, sometimes, found it too restrictive and not showing every scene at its best. When I finally have to succumb to some (begrudgingly) colour imagery, but these are the images that I playfully call, “Failed Black and White’s”.

Anyway, whatever your point of view, I do hope you like what you see and maybe get some of the essence of the moment that I try so hard to share.