At present, the intent of my practice is to develop a personal aesthetic, emotional and political relationship with the places which I visit by interacting with them by walking and photographing. My technical strategy is to walk around a site in a semi-organised manner, having plotted an idea for a route, and then allowing myself to become distracted and deviate from this as I come across places, objects and views which attract my attention. I photograph these on the fly. I follow personal preferences for photographing traces of human and animal activity, abstracts such as reflections and organic patterns, viewpoints, and idiosyncratic details such as radio masts and ruins. I use a 24-70mm lens to accommodate these different types of shot and have recently upgraded my camera to one with a larger sensor to better record natural textures such as bracken, leaves and heather.

At present, these are intended to communicate the sense of place as it appears to me. I shoot a large number of photographs and present only the best. These communicate sense of place effectively to others, judging from their feedback. As such, and at present, my chosen strategies are successful. As the project is still in its explorative stage, once refined, the intention will become more defined and the strategies narrowed accordingly. Images will also sit with text, which I have not begun to include as yet.