One year, I exhibited a picture that I had taken at daybreak on a snowy hill in North Yorkshire. I had a polarising filter on the lens to add a blue tint to proceedings. During the exhibition, I got so fed up with people thinking that I had added the tint in Photoshop – simply because I told them I use it - that I left the original slide out for visitors to examine as well.
My current exhibition is a series of photographs taken in Amsterdam in March of this year. The weather was truly appalling, the very poor daylight was limited to four or five hours a day, the temperatures were between -8 and -12 and I was faced with the prospect of a wasted journey. However, fortune favours the foolish – the foolish being those who wait until March to take pictures for an exhibition in May - and the day before I was due to return home a thick blanket of snow fell from the skies, followed by dazzling sunshine. It gave me the opportunity and photographs I had been waiting for.
The Amsterdam trip was the second in a series of trips that I plan to take over the coming years, visiting major cities or specific locations to photograph what interests me there. My previous visit had been to glorious Barcelona.

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