Whilst I was in the Basque country in the summer, and just to be clear, barely in the Basque country, I went to a village festival with my niece. I was making typical uncle pics of her, not really noticing what was in the background, when I noticed 3 burly guys approaching slowly, with shades, hands on small man-bags, and very fixed gazes.

I immediately showed my sp and Don Mcullin wannabe roots, quickly turned around and shot the above three frames.

My brother in law, who is a TV camera man, told me they were bodyguards watching out for ETA attacks on the local politicos – the man-bags contained the pistols…

But I showed him I’d stand up for my right to shoot what I wanted – heh!

Coward….

Only two images on the camera this week. Having been convinced a long time ago by Charlie Harbutt of the role image-making can play in revealing psychological states, what do these two say..?

Or you can see Chapters 1 and 2 together here.

Just got back from a trip to the north to see the in-laws. Mini essay/therapy on the experience…

I’m shooting a lot at the moment, partly because family holidays are coming up when I know I won’t have time to shoot, and partly because I start a new job in September, and the learning curve that comes with any new job means I probably won’t have the energy then.

Regulars to the blog will know I went for a time without making images. The kick that got me going again was an email exchange with Bee Flowers, in which he suggested maybe doing a joint project when he gets to London. My reply was that I had absolutely no visual curiosity any more.

That line stuck with me for a while. I’ve spent years arguing, thinking and doing photography. False starts, blind allies, slowly getting things together. After all that, what a sad thing to say.

So I grabbed a camera, put it in my bag and it goes everywhere. And slowly but surely, almost photo by photo, I got curious again.

So, here’s to curiosity, a few images from today…

I recently bought a new camera that allowed me, at last, to make digital square images. As of today I have made exactly 700 images with this new machine. So in honour of those 700 square images, 7 from today.