One too many
Photograph of a broken yellow plastic traffic cone with ‘NORTH ESSEX PARKING PARTNERSHIP’ written on it and a red and blue circular ‘no entry’ symbol, lying on an area of brick paving that appears to have sunk into the ground. There’s a can of Heineken to the left of the cone and a brick wall across the top portion of the frame.
A light snowfall
MONDAY MORNING VIEW, TRIVIAL MATTER
Orville & Keith
Chelmsford, Essex, UK, December 2025. Photograph of a white wall with street art depicting Orville the Duck and Keith Harris. The wall is in a car park, with foliage around it, bare trees above (with mistletoe on some high branches to the left), with apartment buildings and deep blue sky visible behind.
Trio
Colchester, Essex, UK, December 2025. Photograph of 3 smeared black hand prints on a cream-painted wall.
Rest area
Harwich, Essex, UK, December 2025. Photograph of a dark wood dining chair with a yellow upholstered seat on the pavement outside the back of brick buildings, surrounded by bins and with green leafy plants growing.
Essentials
Knightsbridge, London, UK, December 2025. Photograph of an empty white sign on a cream brick wall, with a sign above that reads ‘TOBACCO, FRESH COFFEE/TEA, CONFECTIONERY, NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES, COLD DRINKS, SANDWICHES & FOOD, SIM / PHONE CARDS, MOBILE TOP UP’, and an empty Coke can and glass bottle balanced between them both. To the left a rack of postcards can just be seen along the wall.
Remnants of a celebration
Colchester, December 2025
Stripe
Colchester, UK, November 2025
A Saturday morning curiosity
Colchester, UK, November 2025
One for the collection
Harwich, UK, November 2025. Photograph of an empty noticeboard with metal frame, magnets at the bottom of the frame, mounted on a brick wall, with a faded engraved white placque below.
Happy Halloween
Ipswich, UK, October 2025. Photograph of three mannequins through a window, with reflection of a street with buildings, pavement and a road on the glass in front. The mannequins are wearing 70s style clothes with rabbit ears and masks.
Blue velvet
Chelmsford, UK, October 2025. Photograph of 3 black wheelie bins with ‘HH’ painted on them in white, with an old-fashioned dark wood and blue velvet dining chair to the left. Behind is a brick wall with patterned square bricks, there’s a pavement in front and an ominous looking sky above.
Construction Site Keep Out
Colchester, UK, October 2025. Photograph of a metal temporary fence on a grassy patch in front of an old brick wall (Colchester Castle), with a sign saying ‘Construction site, Keep out’ and a pink crown metallic balloon tied to a fence, upside down as it is deflated.
Friday afternoon desk detail
Colchester, UK, September 2025. Photograph of a glass bottle with potato vine flowers against a black background. Some flowers have withered and fallen on to the white desk below.
Another Little Tike
Colchester, UK, September 2025. Photograph of a broken Little Tikes red plastic toy car without roof or door, dumped in a verge of overgrown ivy, between red pillars, with a low concrete wall in the foreground.
Oudezijds Achterburgwal
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2025. Photograph of an open book floating in a canal, with the reflection of buildings in the top portion of the frame, a couple of yellow leaves floating and clouds reflected across the surface.
Smoking is highly addictive, don’t start
Delft, The Netherlands, August 2025. Photograph looking down on a brick paved pavement with a ceramic tile with handwritten words including ‘terra… earth…’, in delft blue on whte, with a discarded Marlboro cigarette packet squashed next to it, lined up so it looks as though the tile is coming out of the packet. The packet has a warning saying ‘Smoking is highly addictive, don’t start’ on it.
WASH RICE
Photograph of a London street, with a Pharmacy in the centre, with its blue shutter pulled down and ‘WASH RICE’ written in white paint. There is a pedestrian crossing in front and houses and plants to the right of the frame.
Peeking
Photograph of a tree trunk with two screws surrounded by white plastic in a hole in a tree, looking like eyes of a creature peeking out.
A seat
Photograph of a wood-backed office chair on a pavement with a red brick wall, garden and house behind.
Cannot come up with a title for this
Photograph of a large cuddly toy wrapped tightly in silver taped, hung upside down from a treetunk, with plants and rubbish behind.
Footwear
Photograph of a half-full bottle of water and two pairs of shoes lined up on a brick wall, against a brick structure with nettles behind.
Defunct
Photograph of a scorched and damaged VCR player dumped in a grass verge, surrounded by weeds.
Trapped
Photograph of large glass window framed by red/pink tiles, with a large foliage-covered plant squashed against the glass from the inside.
QUIET PLEASE
Photograph of the entrance slope to a parking area, with ‘QUIET PLEASE’ painted on the brick wall side of a three-storey house. There is a blue traffic cone at the top of the slope and yellow and blue painted areas on the ground.
The Twilight Saga
Photograph of 4 paperback books, the full Twilight Saga, stacked on a wall in front of a house.
LITTLE TIKES, TRIVIAL MATTER
May 2025, Colchester, UK. Photograph of a red and yellow Little Tikes Cosy Coupe plastic toy car in a river, half in half out of the water, with river plants all around it. The photograph is taken from the river bank, looking through trees, which can be seen out of focus in the foreground around the frame.
Coffee is art
Wivenhoe, UK, May 2025. Photograph a cup of coffee in a paper takeaway cup, on a wooden surface. In the crema is a wiggly line through the middle and little bubbles either side, which looks a little like two abstract faces kissing.
A single piece
Colchester, UK, May 2025. Photograph of a grey puzzle piece with blue dots on it, on a tarmac pavement.
Flytipped leopard
Walton-on-the-Naze, UK, April 2025. Photograph of a stuffed toy leopard rocking horse in plants next to a large black bin at the side of a pavement, with the tops of beach huts and the sea behind.
