Walk Madeira: Levada Nova – Loreto to Canhas
A gentle start in a small village leads to a high wire act up in the mountains.
Walk Madeira: Boca da Corrida to Encumeada
Arguably the best mountain walk on the beautiful island of Madeira - the mesmerising peaks above and the lush valleys far down below. One not to miss. Watch out for paths that may or may not be closed, unless climbing 12ft high chain link fences is how you like to finish your day :)
Walk Madeira: Boca do Risco from Tunel do Canical
All the way up a hill and then all the way down. With a sprint for the bus at the end.
Walk Madeira: Levada Nova Prazeres to Estrela da Caheta
A jolly clifftop jaunt along the north coast of Madeira.
Walk Madeira: Levada Nova – Prazeres to Estrela da Caheta
Walk Madeira: Enjoy a Sonic the Hedgehog style walk along the Levada Nova. Gold ring collecting optional.
Walk Film Ten
A climb though sugar cane plantations in pursuit of a spectacular view down the valley.
WALK FILM SEVEN
Walk Film Seven - It's time to go to the seaside... But it's a very long walk down hill.
Cape Verde, Santa Antao: Coastal Path Cruzinha to Ponta do Sol
Cape Verde - Coastal Path Cruzinha to Ponta do Sol
Sticks & Stones
Sticks and stones thrust together by the force of the tides on the south coast of England near Hastings.
Double VISION
"Double Vision - A Very Strange Photo Album" is a collection of double exposures created from the numerous photos taken whilst walking in the south on England during 2016. The premise was to make a traditional family photo album but fill it with particularly strange images.
Memento Mori Part 1 – Drinking Rituals
A coffee cup spinning through the infinite void, perhaps it will meet Bertrand Russells' famous teapot?
3×3 Feeling Shortsighted (Deal or No Deal)
British politics, like a driverless train, ceaslessly hurtling forward, apparently incapable of allowing itself the most basic of human freedoms - that of being able to change its mind when confronted with new evidence.
Then the clouds rolled in…
High up in the mountains at the top of "La Gomera" the clouds periodically roll in offering up a perfect infrared photography opportunity.
Rainy Windows
There's something appealing about the myriad tiny lenses created by waterdrops on a pane of glass.
Frozen Footprints
Frozen evidence of perambulations briefly locked in time until the inevitable thaw comes to reset the landscape.
Walk Film Two
The second myopic fusion of music and video. Sound and vision edited simultaneously so the structure of one drives the construction of the other.
Walk Film 1
A myopic experimental infusion of audio and video.. Normal editing practice dictates that video follows the audio or that the audio is written after the event to match the pictures. The advent of looped sample based music allows for another approach where both are assembled simultaneously. Here is the first experiment with that idea.
Time is Relative to the Observer
Tick-Tock goes the clock... Sixty "identical" duration shots that don't appear to be identical at all.
Winter Moods
Bite down on some crunchy black and white images taken around Regent's Park and Kew Gardens at the beginning of 2017
Abstracts
It's strange what "catches your eye" Why are we drawn to one thing and not another? Is there any reason behind this or just a random firing of neurons in the brain that is comforting in some way?
Fictional Album Covers
It's strange what "catches your eye" Why are we drawn to one thing and not another? Is there any reason behind this or just a random firing of neurons in the brain that is comforting in some way?
NINE OUT OF TEN
9/10 - Walks are graded from one to ten. This was the hardest. Hence the title. Are you tough enough?
Walk the Line
A series of photographs around the east end of London following the path of the newly created sculpture walk.
Royal Berks and Windy Willows
A windy walk from Cookham to Maidenhead taking in the Thames and other highlights.
We Live in Hope
Streets named after great British poets. A cynical attempt at urban aggrandisement or an optimistic view for self improvement? You decide.
The Number of the Beast
A walk around central London following in the footsteps of English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer Aleister Crowley. Be careful where you step, you wouldn't want to trip now would you?
Row Boat (featuring Greenfinger)
Regent's Park Boating Lake accompanied by Greenfinger's lush soundtrack. What's not to like?
Fault_
Fault_ Random stills taken to try and diagnose a fault on a television during the 1975 espionage thriller "Three Days of the Condor" The photographs become divorced from the subject matter serving a more prosaic purpose.
Flags of the Agents
Our streets are adorned with estate agents signs. Rather than them serving no useful purpose whatsoever I've decided to turn them into abstract art.
Flotsam●Jetsam
Detritus coughed up onto the coastline of Wales between Harlech and Criccieth. These sea worn items have a certain beauty to them despite being a very obvious sign of our ever present pollution of the environment.
Lynch Types
A set of photographs influenced by the David Lynch exhibition at the Photographers Gallery in London.
Tribute to Malevich
Malevich painted his black square in 1913 supposedly the first painting of nothing. It appears that Southwalk council has unwittingly joined the supremacist movement with its somewhat ham-fisted attempt at covering up tagging near the Thames in Bermondsey.
Beneath the Tide
The oozing, growing, slimy green things revealed when the Thames drops below it's banks each day.
Heading 4 Number 4 (Floating)
I wanted this to feel like a levitation - a brief disconnection from the real world before returning to reality with a bump. Shot on location at an art college up in the hills of Cyprus. Digital Manipulation & Sound Design by Rickster.
In the Garden of the Mountain Apprentice
Deep in the countryside of southern France join one man and his slippers in an endless search for the man in black... Will he be successful in his quest? Will we finally get an answer to the question: "Where is Pat?"
Life in The Park featuring “Estuary” by Ed Hamilton
Random images from Regent's Park suggested whilst listening to Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Intersections
in•ter•sect 1. to pierce or divide by passing through or across. 2. to meet and cross at a point. 3. to share a common area.
Row • Boat • Loop • Loop
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream...
“Old Master” V1.0.2
An experiment with multiple exposures led to an image that resembled a somewhat abstract J.M.W. Turner painting. I was intrigued to see that it was almost impossible to understand the nature of the source material once enough layers are added into the composition - You glimpse vague details, but see nothing of the whole.
Ex•pan•sions – Scary Hair (With Lemon) by Greenfinger
Scary Hair (With Lemon) by Greenfinger Yet more experiments with split screen media. The footage was captured on the train journey back from the Vimeo event in Amsterdam using an iPhone
Small Worlds #1 – Walking the Dog
Our world is a complicated place, so many things going on, so little time to sit back and contemplate. It's time to take a mini break, visit a "Small World" today - unwind, relax, and see the simpler things in life.
Small Worlds #2 – Beside the Seaside
Welcome to "Small Worlds" - bite sized chunks of life spinning through time and space.
Small Worlds #3 – Sunset Boat Ride
Welcome to "Small Worlds" - bite sized chunks of life spinning through time and space.
Small Worlds #4 – Walk • Run • Cycle
Welcome to "Small Worlds" - bite sized chunks of life spinning through time and space.
Norse South East West – A View From the Top of the World.
The view from from the world's north-most capital city. Reykjavik, Iceland, at Hallgrímskirkja.
Adopted Spooky Dead Things in Jars
A photo montage piece shot at the Grant Museum of Zoology, London.
Secret Garden Party Music Festival 2012
The Secret Garden Party is a music festival held in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
How’s your timekeeping Rickster?
Security camera footage of my arrival at work over a period of a month synchronised in time to compare the variations.
Man with a Movie Camera (on a Pole)
Security camera footage of my arrival at work over a period of a month synchronised in time to compare the variations.
Polecam Splitscreen in Regent’s Park Rose Garden, London
A beauty / camera test piece shot in Brighton 2009
Sunday Afternoon BBQ – in London
A BBQ in London in the summer is an optimistic thing but there's always an opportunity for a short film of events.
BT TOWER LAUNCHES INTO SPACE! Exclusive Footage!
A Test SFX sequence for a short film that never got off the ground. (pun intended)
A Washing Trip
I read on a random blog that washing powder can make you hallucinate. This seemed pretty unlikely to me given that it is basically soap, but as I read it on the Internet it must be true.
Recycled
3 MILLION: ESTIMATED HOMELESS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION 2010 Source: Red de Apoyo a la Integración Sociolaboral (RAIS) Witnessed Toulouse, October 2010.
Cyprus • Loop • Loop
Lots and lots of loops to send you slightly loopy. Footage shot in Cyprus in 2012
View from a Train
Experimental piece using 3 and 5 frame clips looped to give a brief idea of motion.
Daytime Fireworks (La Mascletà) at Las Fallas in Valencia 2012
Valencia is famous for its fireworks. The Valencians love their fireworks so much that they don't just have them at night like we do, they want them during the day too.
FF REW 2011
FF Fast Forward through 365 days of a year REW Rewind to 2011 A bite sized split screen montage of all the photo and video captured on my iPhone in 2011.
Egypt 2009 – The World’s Most Complicated Holiday Video
I started off with the intention of hacking some footage of my holiday together. Things rapidly spiralled out of control....
After Closedown
My first foray into experimental film-making that has survived. Made in 1989 at the BBC.
Bar●Code Morocco
Bar●Code Morocco came out of the desire to represent time as a single image. Each frame of the source video footage is processed into a single pixel line with consecutive frames being placed next to each other. As time progresses a representation of the movement and content of the underlying source video footage is built up along a horizontal axis.