Outside looking in.

A great many of my photographs are from the outside looking in.  I like the mixture of reflections and unfolding stories.  There's a part of me that feels like I'm watching a play or a film. Photography from the street I guess you could call it.

Chrome Launderette

Cafes are the best. Wondering who the people are and what their story is.

Hooper House

Cafe Kino day

At the Well

Weston's finest

Even empty cafes are fab through the window.   But looking at a wedding from the outside really is like watching a play. The clothes, the colours, all brighter than ordinary life.

The Wedding

Some pictures evoke more questions - a scary puppet hanging in an antique shop window.

Scary puppet

A boy staring through a window.

As seen in Vogue Italia and Vogue Art and Commerce, New York

Football

In the goal

 Football is centre stage as World Cup 2014 arrives.  So many things to photograph around football.  The fans, the shirts, the paraphernalia.  There is no other game that evokes as much human emotion as football.  It gets in your veins.  It doesn't matter whether you're playing at your local park, in the street or at Old Trafford.

Football on The Downs, Bristol

Favourite players, favourite numbers.

Number 7 Ronaldo

Women football fans are just as passionate about the game  and spend a lot of time practicing skills

Mrs Lucas skills at football camp

A world of merchandise emerges out of football.

Scarf man

Bristol Rovers hat

Even cafes.

United Cafe, Old Trafford

It's the game we all play and watch and belong to.

Joy of scoring

Bristol Rovers fans last game of season

There is nothing quite like watching it live.

Small screen football

Buskers are the stuff of street photography

Busker on the Bridge from an exhibition at Harvey's Wine Cellar, Bristol.

I love taking pictures of buskers. Street photography wouldn't be the same without them. I find them fascinating, courageous people.  Laying themselves bare for the world to see and judge their act.  Bristol is teeming with street performers. It gives vibrancy, life and energy to a city. Most buskers perform at the harbour side.  There is always someone to make you stop and watch as you pass by.

Count Bobo

Guitar and Trombone

Not all are musicians either.

Dancing chefs

Strong woman show

 But traditionally there have always been buskers in the underpass at The Bear Pit in Bristol.

Busker silhouette

Bear Pit busking

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Outside Arnolfini

I have been meeting my friends outside Arnolfini for the past 23 years.  I guess most people who live in Bristol have been doing the same thing.  There are always loads of interesting people hanging around, busking, drinking beer, sunbathing, staring at the water.  Sometimes The Mods are there with their parkas and gleaming mopeds. But there's always life happening outside Arnolfini. 

Sunbathing

Texting

Buskerman

Mods

Red, white and blue