These are my adventure boots – they’ve been all over the country and round the world with me.  They’ve trekked through Australian desert sand, been covered in Dublin Guinness, buried in Canadian snow, pounded Catalonian cobbles…you get the idea.  I’ve had these boots for years and been wearing them whenever I’ve had any kind of adventure.

I love my adventure boots me.

I’m currently in the middle of building a new house so I’m spending a lot of time trying to reduce the amount of shite I’ll have to move & make space for so a lot of stuff is getting lashed.  3rd skip and counting.

Recently, I couldn’t find my adventure boots in any of the normal places I normally lash them.  Mild panic ensued whilst I checked in the places they would have been ‘tidied’ to – not there either.  Proper panic ensued – what if I’d accidentally thrown them out?  It occurred to me that I didn’t have any photos of my adventure boots or any of me wearing them.  Loads of photos of the place where I’ve worn them but none of the boots themselves.  I eventually found them buried under one of the many piles of crap littered everywhere and immediately resolved to ensure I had at least one photo of them.

It struck me that this was a ridiculous thing for a photographer to allow to happen – I spend a lot of time talking about memories, capturing the moment & the like and I have absolutely no photos of one of the first things I’d save in a fire? (Speaking of which, The Burning House project is a series of photo submissions of what people would save if their house was on fire, very thought provoking).

I take a lot of photos that I think other people will like and not enough of what matters to me.  So with that in mind I’ve setup this blog – somewhere for more personal photos and for photos that don’t easily fit on my other photography sites – Formidable Photography and 10:03 Photography.  That’s the plan anyway – if more stuff ends up getting lashed on here, all the better.

Cheers,

Mark x