My Books ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was more than a little surprised to realise I've now self-published twenty-one books. Thirteen are photo-books, four form a children's self-illustrated space-adventure series, one is a stand-alone story for kids and three are adult fiction. Well, I didn't know I had it in me! 

I've loved the creative process that's brought each of these publications to life. I've probably been able to produce each of the photo-books in a matter of months, but the written work has taken years. The promotion of them all is a different matter though. I have spent so much time searching for literary agents and interested photographic parties to take up my work, but all to no avail. It's bloody hard work to get noticed out there. Still, that's not going to stop the fun I'm having while I create them. I have three others in the pipeline!!

Ps: The titles are :-

Photo-Books

Book One. Photography? There's no money in that, son ..

Book Two. Snaps? I'm an artist!

Book Three. So what do you do in the week?

Book Four. My Uncle's got a good camera.

Book Five. Shot anyone famous?

Book Six. Who d'ya think you are, David Bailey ..?

Book Seven. Cheese!

 Portrait Photography

69 Portraits

77 More ..

Joy Division

Bowdon Vale Youth Club (French & English versions)

Travel/Documentary Photography

Continental '82 (A road-trip around America .. by air!)

Riding the Dirty Dog (Across America on a Greyhound Bus .. in a week!)

Children's Space Adventure Series

Swapsies

Meet the Neighbours

Friend to the Stars

Don't go near the Black Hole, Sunshine

Children's Fiction

The Boy who missed Next Year

Adult Fiction

Page 99, by Joe Bancroft

SNAPS

Tofalofalos

 

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I'll be in touch ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The astronauts on Artemis went around the back of the Moon last night and were out of touch with the Earth for a whole forty minutes. Can you imagine being 'out of touch' with anybody for that long anymore? It just wouldn't happen, would it? Not in a time when almost everybody on the planet has a mobile 'phone. By chance, I photographed this yellow marker in a field the other day (I'm not sure what it's actually marking, but never mind ..) and it reminded me of a time before mobiles, a time when different companies were battling to get a slice of that new, emergent market. In the 90s I used to do a bit of PR photography, you see, for a company called Rabbit, whose idea was a new portable telephone system that required you to be within range of one of their transmitters. (Didn't work out, for obvious reasons!) I'd get various famous* people to pose with a hand-set .. and a rabbit .. and the shots would be sent out to local press. Nowadays, of course, we're completely absorbed by 'phones. Mesmerized, hypnotised, totally contr .. oh sorry, my 'phone's ringing. Gotta go!

* It's Mike Harding, if you were struggling!

 

New heights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was 'mad' on Space when I was a kid. Had all the Airfix models, loved James Burke and always asked for Space annuals for Christmas. I can even remember making a papier-mâché moon surface on which to plonk my Lunar Module when I was about ten. What exciting times they were, and yet how quickly it all fizzled out again after Apollo 17. So how wonderful it was to watch the Artemis 2 rocket blast off last night, even if it was equally astonishing to think that I haven't watched a 'Moon shot' launch like that for an unbelievable fifty-four years ..

We bought a Laburnum the other day, a tree which, according to the label, will reach its full height in fifteen years. In fifteen years I'll be eighty years old. I just hope the time doesn't fly as quickly as it has since 1972 ..