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Photographer based in London. Work: Lifestyle, gardens, landscape and people.
Photos & features through: www.gapphotos.com
Alter ego: rowing coach.

From the archive...can’t believe this was 5 year

From the archive...can’t believe this was 5 years ago! With Katie Rushworth aka @thequeenofspades00 and Tara O’Sullivan @taraosullivan1
Some favourites from Katie’s book ‘Plants, beds and borders’ designed by Tara.
#gardenphotography #gardenphotographer #katierushworth #kylebooks #fromthearchive #portrait #gardening #naturalplanting #herbaceousborder #feature #book

We’ve lived in West London since 1986 and during

We’ve lived in West London since 1986 and during house moves, estate agents always pointed us towards Acton and Brentford as potential property buying areas. 'Up and coming’ was the oft used phrase, usually with the hope Marks & Spencer would set up a store. M&S never made an appearance in either area. But Brentford is now well and truly under redevelopment.
This is a small gallery of comparative images taken around Brentford since 2014.

1. Wilson & Kyle works, 2014. Inset 2020
2. Dock Road, 2014. Inset 2020
3. County Parade, the main line of shops, 2019. Inset 2020 after demolition
4. Dock Road details, 2014. This is now the site of the new multi-storey car park
5. Dockside buildings, 2019.
6. Central dock area with working boat yards (top) and new waterside café area in old industrial buildings, 2019

#brentford #brentforddock #urban #urbanredevelopment #london #urbanliving #westlondon #riverbrent #watersideliving

Acer palmatum and reflections. Summer colour - loo

Acer palmatum and reflections. Summer colour - looking up and down.
#reflection #pool #swimmingpool #treereflection #blue #summer #acer #acerpalmatum #red #summercolour #garden #gardenphotographer #gardenphotography #leaves

Shape and form in the garden today. Acanthus and a

Shape and form in the garden today. Acanthus and a guest this year, wild fennel.
#monochrome #urbangarden #acanthus #fennel #wildflower #wildling #shapeandform #blackandwhite #gardenphotography #gardenphotographer #details #closeup #softfocus

Friends for 73 years...my mum on the left, with he

Friends for 73 years...my mum on the left, with her best buddy today. It’s taken several years to get this snap!
#portrait #family #snapshot #mum #snap

Reflections and shadows...the secluded loop of the

Reflections and shadows...the secluded loop of the River Brent by-passed by the canal just outside Brentford. And with the M4 passing directly overhead. There’s a surprising amount of life under here. •
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#riverbrent #walking #london #urbanlandscape #urbancountryside #monochrome #intothestream #river #reflections #shadows #hiddenlondon #secretlondon #brentford

Glorious sweet peas: Lathyrus odoratus ‘rouge pa

Glorious sweet peas:
Lathyrus odoratus ‘rouge parfum’
Lathyrus odoratus ‘chance’

#sweetpeas #summer #lathyrusodoratusrougeparfum #lathyrusodoratuschance #lathyrusodoratus #red #pink #scent #flowers #traditionalflowers #climbers #climbingplants #bluesky #gardenphotography #gardenphotographer

Urban love. And wildling green wall, Clayponds Gar

Urban love. And wildling green wall, Clayponds Gardens, South Ealing.
#wildlings #wildings #wildflowers #graffiti #love #wall #urbanwalk #urbanart #claypondsgardens #ealing #london

South Ealing Cemetery. I’ve been past here so ma

South Ealing Cemetery. I’ve been past here so many times en-route to other places, but never been in before. Apparently dating back to 1861 - lots of beautiful details and a haven for wildlife.
#southealingcemetery #flowers #artificialflowers #driedflowers #cemetery #graveyardsculpture #ealing #london

Open. Beats internet shopping any day! #retailther

Open. Beats internet shopping any day!
#retailtherapy #records #vinyl #collecting #collectorsrecords #ealing #london #soundsoriginal

Polaroid test shots I found in my camera cupboard

Polaroid test shots I found in my camera cupboard today. Plant portrait cutouts for Gardeners’ World from around 2002 - the old fashioned way! I used to mainly shoot these in black and white as the exposure was always slightly easier to assess than colour Polaroid.
#film #polaroid #plantportraits #gardenersworld #gardenersworldmagazine #fromthearchive

Having a major tidy up of my camera cupboard. Amon

Having a major tidy up of my camera cupboard. Amongst other things, I found a pile of old Polaroid test shots...the old fashioned way!
From Top Gear, Jamie Oliver and his VW Camper van and the Stig, both taken at the test track at Dunsfold. From around 2003, at the time when the Stig’s identity was secret and he used to speak to us in a French accent..until we found out he was actually race driver Perry McCarthy. 😊
#topgearmagazine #polaroid #fromthearchives #monochrome #testshot #feature #magazinefeature #film #portrait #topgear #carphotography

After the rain had gone...what a glorious evening

After the rain had gone...what a glorious evening for a scull!
#iphoneonly #scull #rowing #rowinglife #putneytownrowingclub #ptrc #chiswickbridge #mortlake #thames #riverthames #london #beautifullondon #urbancountryside

Wandering in Spain on bike and foot. Some of the b

Wandering in Spain on bike and foot. Some of the big landscapes around Conil de la Frontera, in Andalucia. Have missed this. But hopefully soon! •
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Frame 1: Beach front café, Los Caños de Meca
Frame 2: Conil de la Frontera
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#conil #conildelafrontera #loscanosdemeca #andalucia #spain #beach #landscape #travel #hopefullysoon #intothestream #bikeride #walk #landscape #urbanlandscape #beach #beachfront

Summer rain. • • Red Currant, Ribes rubrum ‘

Summer rain. •
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Red Currant, Ribes rubrum ‘Earliest of Fourlands’ •
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#redcurrant #earliestoffourlands #fruit #crop #summer #summerrain #rain #red #gardenphotography #gardenphotographer #fresh #organic #organicgardening

Portrait from my mum’s garden - 2. • • I hav

Portrait from my mum’s garden - 2. •
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I have tried to take a portrait of my mum in the garden for several years..without success. She can’t move that quickly anymore..unless I point a camera in her direction. Her hat isn’t that quick though. •
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#summerhat #gardenhat #hairrollers #portrait #gardenportrait #gardenchair #urbangarden #london

Poppy petals and seed head. • • Portrait from

Poppy petals and seed head. •
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Portrait from my mum’s garden. She insisted that she should tidy the dead bits off before I took photos, as she wasn’t having any of the natural look. So I had to steal them before she chopped them down for compost. 😊
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#poppy #deadhead #summer #seedhead #petals #driedflowers #stilllife #gardenphotography #gardenphotographer #summercolour

Mean skies over West London tonight. But beautiful

Mean skies over West London tonight. But beautiful river conditions.
#iphoneonly #mobilecamera #thames #riverthames #intothestream #london #beautifullondon #river #urbancountryside #row #scull #ptrc #putneytownrowingclub

Olive sprigs. #graphic #shadow #stilllife #olive

Olive sprigs.
#graphic #shadow #stilllife #olive #oliveleaves #summer #tabledisplay #graphicshape #gardenphotography #gardenphotographer

Some more meanderings in a kayak today, which incl

Some more meanderings in a kayak today, which included an unexpected swim in the river. Fortunately all safety measures worked and with camera and mobile unscathed. Why do capsizes always occur when you have an audience? 🙂
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Frame 1: Giant Hogweed along the River Brent. It has a presence, despite being a pest and a thug. You can see why the Victorians planted it in their gardens..before unwittingly leaving it for us to deal with.
Frame 2: Views along the river towards the Piccadilly Tube Line bridge near Boston Manor.
Frame 3: Beach beneath the M4. The original river passes under the elevated section of the M4 twice before meeting back up with the canalised course.
Frame 4&5: Moving the kayaks across to the canal section. The M4 is directly above our heads at this point.
Frame 6: Ready to bale out 🙂 ••
#riverbrent #kayak #gianthogweed #urbanriver #hiddenlondon #exploringlondon #monochrome #balckandwhite #brentford #london #urbancountryside

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